Richard Leutheußer

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Richard Leutheußer

Richard Leutheußer (born July 16, 1867 in Coburg , † April 12, 1945 in Weimar ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( NLP , DVP ).

Life and work

Leutheußer was born as the son of a music teacher, music conductor and organist. After attending elementary school and graduating from the Casimirianum in Coburg in 1887 , he began studying law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg , Munich (member of the Corps Ratisbonia ) and Berlin , which he did in 1890 with the first and in 1894 with the second finished his legal state examination. He entered the administrative service of the Coburg State Ministry in 1895, had been a district administrator's assistant since 1898 and was then a district judge in Waltershausen . From 1901 he worked as a public prosecutor in Gotha and Coburg. In October 1905 he returned to the Coburg State Ministry as a lecturer. Since 1907 he was district administrator at Schloss Tenneberg and in 1914 he became a senior administrative judge at the joint Thuringian higher administrative court in Jena . In 1932 he retired as a secret councilor. From 1931 until his death in 1945 Leutheußer was the chairman of the Nietzsche Archive Foundation and the “Society of Friends of the Nietzsche Archive”.

politics

Leutheußer was a member of the National Liberal Party (NLP) until 1918 and a member of the state parliament in Gotha from 1907 to 1918 .

After the November Revolution, Leutheußer took part in the reorganization of the NLP into the German People's Party (DVP). From 1919 to 1930 he was state chairman of the DVP in Thuringia . In the Reichstag election in June 1920 he was elected to the German Reichstag , to which he belonged until 1930.

From February 22, 1924 to August 22, 1928 (executive until November 5, 1928) Leutheußer held the office of State Minister for Public Education and Justice of the State of Thuringia and chaired the State Ministry. He was a member of a minority government of the Thuringian Ordnungsbund , consisting of a coalition of his DVP with the DNVP and the Thuringian Landbund (until April 29, 1927) or with the DDP , the Economic Party , the VRP and the Thuringian Landbund (from April 30, 1927 ). This was tolerated by the VVL (United Völkische List), an association of the NSDAP and the DVFB .

Honors

  • Honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. Nat. Hc)

literature

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 112 , 114