Walther Lambach

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Walther Lambach

Walther Lambach (born May 28, 1885 in Gummersbach ; † January 30, 1943 in Mainz ) was a German politician ( DNVP , Conservative People's Party , Christian Social People's Service ) and trade unionist .

Life

Lambach attended the elementary and community school in Cologne and graduated with the one-year- old. He then did a commercial apprenticeship and since 1905 has been a travel agent in Leipzig and Barmen . He worked temporarily in 1908 in Düsseldorf before he was employed at the accumulator factory in Hagen between 1909 and 1913 . Between 1905 and 1915 he also attended further economic training courses in Leipzig and Hamburg . In Hagen he was part-time lecturer at the higher commercial college there between 1910 and 1913.

In 1914, Lambach became editor of the Deutsche Handelswacht , the organ of the German National Trade Aid Association (DHV). In 1919 he became managing director of the DHV. Under his de facto leadership, the association reached 300,000 members. In the Christian-national German trade union federation , to which the DHV belonged in the meantime, he played an influential role. At the end of the Weimar Republic he was the managing director of the General Association of German Employees' Unions .

As a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP), Lambach entered the Reichstag in 1920 . He was one of the main representatives of the social wing in the conservative DNVP. Lambach was chairman of the party's Reich Employee Committee. Although Lambach succeeded in including demands for co-determination of workers and employees and their participation in the company in the DNVP program, this hardly played a role overall.

Lambach claimed an intermediate position between capitalism and socialism , he propagated an “organic production community” and relied on “popular solidarity.” He asserted the failure of the socialist class concept and set against it “the national ideal of the professional man deeply rooted in ethnicity and religion.” The goal was it accordingly, to bring about a reconciliation of capital and labor.

To make his ideas heard, he founded the journal Politische Praxis in 1925 . The paper, however, had to stop its publication in 1927. The term “people's conservative” coined by Lambach in the magazine continued to have an impact and became a collective term for some of those forces in the DNVP who did not agree with Alfred Hugenberg's extreme right-wing course . In contrast, Lambach said that the monarchical idea would recede, and he wanted to open the DNVP to conservative Republicans as well. With such statements he aroused the displeasure of the party and in 1928 he finally had to resign from his office.

In the Reichstag parliamentary group, Lambach voted against his own parliamentary group in the debate about the Young Plan . As a result, he, Gottfried Treviranus and ten other MPs left the parliamentary group and founded the People's Conservative Association. This was deliberately based on the Weimar constitution . In 1930 there was a merger with other renegade DNVP members in the Conservative People's Party , for which Lambach entered the Reichstag in 1930 . However, this party was not very successful. In 1931 he switched to the Christian Social People's Service . In 1932 Lambach was no longer elected to the Reichstag.

After the beginning of the National Socialist rule , the DHV was also dissolved in 1934 and Lambach lost his union offices. He moved to Mainz and no longer played a role politically.

literature

  • Franz Menges:  Lambach, Walther. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 425 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

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SURNAME Lambach, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1943
Place of death Mainz