Theodor Dirr

Theodor Dirr

Theodor Dirr (born November 8, 1857 in Anhofen , † April 8, 1931 there ) was deputy party chairman of the Bavarian Farmers' Union and member of the Weimar National Assembly in Germany .

Life

Theodor Dirr attended elementary school from 1863 to 1870 and then from 1870 to 1872 the advanced training school. He then attended the agricultural winter school in Augsburg in 1872/73 and the trade school in 1873/74. After his military service from 1877 to 1880, he took over his parents' property in Anhofen in 1885. He was of the Catholic faith.

politics

Theodor Dirr had been mayor of Anhofen since 1892 and a member of the Günzburg district committee and the Swabian district administrator. In addition, he took over the position of second board member of the agricultural district association Günzburg and was a member of the agricultural district committee for Swabia. Dirr was a board member and chairman of various professional organizations.

From 1919 to 1929 he was second chairman of the Bavarian Farmers' Union and for this from 1899 to 1905 and from 1911 to 1918 a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies . He was supposed to be the first Minister of Agriculture in Bavaria. A corresponding motion was decided in the Provisional National Council. In the list of ministers of the Segitz cabinet approved by the Council Congress on March 1, 1919, Theodor Dirr was designated as Minister of Agriculture. The cabinet never achieved office and dignity, but was overrun by the revolutionary events.

On April 10, 1919, he was a participant and speaker in a cross-party rally in the Günzburger Stadtgarten against the Bavarian Soviet Republic .

From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly.

Web links

• Oliver Braun: Bayerischer Bauernbund (BB), 1895-1933. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . December 19, 2011, accessed March 8, 2012 . 
• Theodor Dirr in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Theodor Dirr in the database of members of the Reichstag (as of February 18, 2009)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claudia Friemberger: Ministry of Agriculture. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . December 8, 2011, accessed March 8, 2012 . 
2. ↑ The Revolution (1918/19), Resistance against the Soviet Republic ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the SPD Burgau (as seen on February 18, 2009) .