Reinhard Mumm

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Reinhard Mumm (born July 25, 1873 in Düsseldorf , † August 25, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German theologian and politician .

Reinhard Mumm

Life

After graduating from high school, Mumm studied Protestant theology and economics in Bonn , Berlin , Halle (Saale) and Utrecht . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students Berlin , the Association of German Students Bonn and the Association of German Students Halle . Even then he was under the influence of the Christian-social ideas of court preacher Adolf Stoecker , whose niece and foster daughter Elisabeth Kähler he later married (1909). In 1897 and 1899 he passed the church exams and in April 1900 took up his professional position as general secretary of the Free Church-Social Conference . In this position he initiated - together with Ernst Böhme  - the founding of several conservative-Protestant workers' organizations, such as the union of homeworkers. In 1903 he organized the (Protestant) 1st German Workers' Congress in Frankfurt am Main . In addition to his general secretary work for the Church-Social Federation , as the organization was called since 1918, Mumm was a Protestant pastor in Syburg and social pastor for Westphalia from 1923 to 1931 . From 1919 he was chairman of the social committee of the Prussian general synod . In 1927 he became chairman of the Protestant headquarters against filth and trash . Theologically he belonged to the Positive Union within the Evangelical Church.

In 1917, Mumm was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berlin University . His son Reinhard also became a pastor.

Reinhard Mumm died after long and serious suffering on August 25, 1932 at the age of 59 in Berlin. The burial took place in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf . The grave has not been preserved.

Party affiliation

Mumm was a member of the Christian Social Party during the German Empire . In 1918 he participated in the founding of the German National People's Party (DNVP). In 1921 he became chairman of the Evangelical Reich Committee of the DNVP . In 1929 he resigned from the DNVP in protest against Alfred Hugenberg's anti-social course and joined the Christian Social People's Service (CSVD).

MP

Mumm won the Arnsberg 1 constituency in the 1912 Reichstag election and was a member of the Reichstag until the end of the Empire in 1918. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . Then he was again a member of the Reichstag until 1932 .

At first he concentrated on cultural policy in the Reichstag. So in 1912 he tried in vain to put film theaters and bars that played records under Section 33a of the trade regulations (licensing requirement) in order to be able to strengthen control over their programs in the fight against “dirt and trash”. As early as 1919 he succeeded in enforcing an exception to the ban on censorship for films in Article 118 of the Weimar Constitution . A corresponding regulation against "popular devastation of the worst kind", as Mumm called revealing films, was passed with the Reichslichtspielgesetz of May 12, 1920. In 1926 he achieved the final breakthrough in this matter with the law for the protection of young people from trash and dirty writing , which subjects literature to post-censorship.

During the First World War , Mumm, who also belonged to the Pan-German Association , was a radical advocate in the Reichstag of a war policy based on annexations, which rejected any peace of understanding. From 1921 to 1928 Mumm was chairman of the education committee of the Reichstag. In this function he campaigned for the denominational school .

Fonts

  • The polemic of Martin Chemnitz against the Council of Trent . Naumburg 1905.
  • A social-political theory of its own for the Christian-national labor movement . Berlin 1907.
  • The public mission and the press . Berlin 1909.
  • The Christian and the war . Leipzig 1916.
  • The coming peace . Leipzig 1918.
  • What every Christian needs to know about today's parties . 1919.
  • The Reich School Law and the National Assembly . Berlin 1920.
  • Margarete Behm . The leader of the German homeworkers. A picture of life . Berlin 1924.
  • Germanic belief. A word about Christianity and folklore . Leipzig 1925.
  • Our program. Christianity - fatherland - national community - empire . Berlin 1928.
  • Raise the Christian social flag! A word about the current situation . Siegen 1930.
  • The Stoecker family. In: W. Philipps : Memories of Stoecker (Appendix). Publishing house “Die Reformation”, Berlin [1932].
  • The Christian-Social Thought. Report on a life's work in difficult times. Berlin 1933 (posthumously).
as editor
  • Adolf Stoecker : Speeches in the Reichstag. Friedrich Bahn, Schwerin 1914.

literature

Monographs
  • Norbert Friedrich: “Raise the Christian-social flag!” Reinhard Mumm and the Christian-social movement (= denomination and society , volume 14). Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-17-014978-4 .
Essays
  • Ernst Brinkmann: The first Westphalian social pastor. For the 100th anniversary of Reinhard Mumm's birthday . In: Yearbook for Westphalian Church History . 1972, pp. 177-188.
  • Helmut Busch: Reinhard Mumm as a member of the Reichstag . In: Yearbook for Westphalian Church History . 1972, pp. 189-217.
  • Wolfgang Mühl-Benninghaus: Reinhard Mumm - the "father" of the cinema and the dirt and trash law in the Weimar Republic . In: Contributions to film and television studies . Volume 34, 1988, pp. 207-220.
  • Helmut Busch:  Mumm, Reinhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 582 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Norbert Friedrich : Reinhard Mumm. Westphalian social pastor and socially conservative member of the Reichstag . In: Traugott Jähnichen : Protestantism and the social question. Profiles in the time of the Weimar Republic . Münster 2000, pp. 41-50.
  • Marc Zirlewagen: Reinhard Mumm . In: Marc Zirlewagen (Ed.): 1881–2006 - 125 Years of Associations of German Students , Volume 1: A Historical Review . Pressburg 2006, pp. 228-231.
  • Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 137 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reininghaus : Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Aschendorff, Münster 2020 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series , 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 144 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 155.
  2. ↑ D. Reinhard Mumm † . In: Vossische Zeitung . Thursday, August 25, evening edition, p. 4.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 1042.
  4. ^ Printing: Vaterländische Verlags- und Kunstanstalt .
personal data
SURNAME Mumm, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and politician (CSP, DVNP; CSVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1932
Place of death Berlin