Rudolf Oeser (politician)
Carl Gustav Rudolf Oeser (born November 13, 1858 in Coswig ; † June 3, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and politician ( German People's Party (German Empire) , Progressive People's Party , later DDP ).
Life and work
Rudolf Oeser was born the son of a canvas manufacturer. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and economics in Berlin, then took up a journalistic activity and was editor-in-chief of the Ulmer Zeitung from 1890 . In 1892 he became an employee of the political department of the Frankfurter Zeitung , where he worked from 1897 to 1917 as an editor on economic policy issues. Subsequently, he was chief editor and director of the Ostsee-Zeitung in Stettin .
After the First World War , Oeser was Prussian Minister for Public Works from March 25, 1919 to April 21, 1921, and thus also responsible for the railways in Prussia . He belonged to the state governments led by Prime Ministers Paul Hirsch and Otto Braun . Here he was instrumental in founding the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
From 1921 he was governor of the Prussian province of Saxony before joining the government led by Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno on November 22, 1922 as Reich Interior Minister . From August 13, 1923 to October 11, 1924 he was Reich Minister of Transport in the cabinets of Reich Chancellors Gustav Stresemann and Wilhelm Marx . He then took over the management of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft as general director until his death. His successor in this function was Julius Dorpmüller .
Party affiliation
Oeser initially belonged to the German People's Party , which was limited to southern Germany and for which he had a mandate in the Reichstag from 1907. After the left-liberal merger in 1910, he was a member and until 1912 a member of the Reichstag of the Progressive People's Party . During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the DDP .
Seats in parliament
Oeser was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1902 to 1919 and a member of the Reichstag from 1907 to 1912 . From 1919 to 1924 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament .
Honors
Oeser was buried next to his first wife Emma in Frankfurt's main cemetery . Oeserstraße in Frankfurt-Nied has been named after Rudolf Oeser since 1928 .
literature
- Baumann: Oeser zum Gedächtnis / Rudolf Oeser † June 3, 1926. In: Verkehrstechnische Woche , Volume 20, Issue 23 (June 9, 1926), pp. 276–277.
- W .: General Director Oeser †. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 66, No. 23 (June 10, 1926), pp. 609–610, 623–624.
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 105 .
- Martin Vogt: Oeser, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 458-460 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Oeser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Rudolf Oeser in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Rudolf Oeser in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Rudolf Oeser in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
- Biography at the city of Coswig
- Rudolf Oeser in the Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 1926; Obituary (digitized version)
- Oeser, Carl Gustav Rudolf. Hessian biography. (As of March 24, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Oeser, Rudolf in the Frankfurt personal dictionary
Individual evidence
- ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Special gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of June 10, 1926 [without page counting].
- ↑ Quotation from the minutes of the Prussian State Ministry, Volume 11-1 (PDF; 2.6 MB); he was Wilhelm Hoff's successor
- ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Special gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of June 10, 1926 [without page counting].
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SURNAME | Oeser, Rudolf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oeser, Carl Gustav Rudolf (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and politician (DFP, DtVP, DDP), MdR and Reich Minister |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1858 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Coswig |
DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1926 |
Place of death | Berlin |