Reinhold Roth (politician)

Reinhold Roth

Reinhold Roth (born January 11, 1900 in Hanover , † August 2, 1985 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending school, Roth took part in the First World War from 1918 and became a flag boy . He subsequently passed his school leaving examination in 1919 at a grammar school in Hanover. From 1919 to 1923 he studied at the technical universities in Hanover and Danzig . In 1923 he received his doctorate with a two-sheet dissertation on the subject of "The vapor pressures of hydrogen halides" as Dr.-Ing. From 1924 he then worked as a chemist at BASF , which was merged with IG Farben the following year , in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and soon became the operator of the nitrogen plant in Oppau .

In 1929 Roth applied for membership in the NSDAP, which was approved the following year. From 1930 he appeared publicly as a party speaker for the NSDAP, initially in a circle from 1931 as a Reich speaker . From 1931 to 1933 he worked as district operations cell manager in Mannheim and as deputy district operations cell manager in Baden. From 1933 to 1937 he was district leader of Mannheim, and from 1937 he assumed the duties of district officer of the German Labor Front . In 1940 he relocated to Strasbourg .

In 1933, Roth was a member of the Baden state parliament for a few months . After the dissolution of this body, he sat in the National Socialist Reichstag from November 1933 until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945 as a member of the constituency 32 (Baden) .

After the Second World War , Roth lived, at times under a false name, first in Stuttgart and then in Frankfurt am Main . He came to the Hoechst Group in 1954 through Friedrich Uhde GmbH . In 1960 he became the technical director of the Brazil branch . In 1964 the board of directors congratulated him on his 40th anniversary with IG Farben and Hoechst, taking full account of the Nazi period.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 527 .
• City Archives Mannheim (ed.): Mannheim under the dictatorship . Mannheim 1997, ISBN 3-923003-54-4 .

Web links

• Reinhold Roth in the database of members of the Reichstag