Walther Graef (politician, 1873)

Walther Graef

Reinhold Victor Walther Graef (born February 8, 1873 in Eisenach ; † August 17, 1937 there ) was a German lawyer and politician ( DNVP ).

Life and work

Graef was born the son of a district court president. After graduating from primary school and attending the Carl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Eisenach, he began studying law at the universities of Jena , Leipzig and Marburg in 1891 , which he completed in 1894 with the first state examination in law. He then joined the Prussian judicial service as a court trainee. He passed the second state examination in law in 1898, was a district judge in Auma from 1900 and was transferred to Apolda a year later in the same position . From 1904 he worked as a chief magistrate in Geisa and as a district judge in Eisenach. From 1915 to 1917 he worked at the Eisenach district office. He later became the district court director at the district court of Meiningen .

politics

Graef was a member of the Economic Association before 1918 and a member of the German Reichstag from 1907 to 1912 . After the November Revolution he joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). In the Reichstag election in June 1920 , he was re-elected to the Reichstag , to which he belonged until 1933. From 1925 to 1932 and 1933 he served as Vice President of the Reichstag.

Individual evidence

^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1381-1386.

Web links

Literature by and about Reinhold Victor Walther Graef in the catalog of the German National Library
Graef, Reinhold Victor Walther in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Walter Reinhold Viktor Graef . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Walther Graef in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic

personal data
SURNAME	Graef, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Graef, Reinhold Victor Walther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH	August 17, 1937
Place of death	Eisenach

[1] Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1381-1386.