Theodor Seibert

Theodor Seibert (born November 4, 1870 in Bosen , Principality of Birkenfeld , † January 2, 1936 in Darmstadt ) was a German politician (DVP).

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Theodor Seibert attended the village school in Bosen. By 1887 he learned the metalworking trade in St. Johann and during this time also attended the advanced training school in Saarbrücken. He then worked as a locksmith in Karlsruhe , Munich , Stuttgart , Konstanz and Saarbrücken until 1890 . As a result, he was a member of Infantry Regiment No. 30 in Saarlouis for two years before he took a position in the Saarbrücken railway workshop in 1892. In 1894 Seibert was taken over as an auxiliary heater in the locomotive service. In 1899 he was transferred to Frankfurt and finally appointed locomotive driver in 1904. From 1907 to 1919 Seibert served as district chairman of the locomotive drivers' association in the Frankfurt district. From October 1919 to 1921 Theodor Seibert was a member of the working committee of the civil servants' district committee at the Frankfurt Railway Directorate and a member of the transport service committee of the Central Railway Office in Berlin .

After the First World War , Seibert joined the German People's Party (DVP) in 1919 . For this he was a member of the Reichstag in Berlin from 1920 to 1928 . From June 1920 to May 1924 he represented constituency 21 (Hessen-Nassau), then - after the electoral districts were reassigned - from May to December 1924 constituency 19 (Hessen-Nassau). From December 1924 to May 1928, Seibert finally sat in parliament on the basis of a Reich election proposal.

Apart from his work as a parliamentarian, Theodor Seibert appeared as an expert witness for the defendants in court proceedings about rail transport risks. He also wrote articles on organizational and technical content in specialist newspapers.

Web links

• Theodor Seibert in the database of members of the Reichstag