Walther Rademacher

Walther Rademacher

Walther Rademacher , occasionally Walter Rademacher , (born April 8, 1879 in Merseburg , † April 8, 1952 in Borna ) was a German lawyer , industrialist and member of the Reichstag .

Parents, studies and political activity

As the son of the grammar school teacher Otto Rademacher (1847-1918) and his wife Maria Simon, he attended a humanistic grammar school from 1888 to 1897. He then studied law in Marburg, Munich and Halle until 1900 and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD .

In 1905 he passed his exam to become an assessor . From 1905 to 1920 he worked as a notary and lawyer in Merseburg, where he also gained practical experience in lignite mining . From 1912 to 1920 he was a member of the city council in Merseburg. During the First World War he served from 1915 to 1919 in the civil administration of the German Reich in Belgium and in the Reich Office of the Interior . With the establishment of the DNVP in 1918, he became chairman of the party in Merseburg. From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the district committee of Merseburg. He was a member of the Borna district committee from 1923 to 1926.

Parliament

He moved to the Reichstag as a member of parliament from December 1924 to May 1928 for constituency 28 Dresden - Bautzen . In the next election he won the Reichstag mandate for constituency 30 Chemnitz - Zwickau from May 1928 to September 1930. He last moved to the Reichstag with a mandate from constituency 29 Leipzig from March 1933 to November 1933. At times he also belonged to the People's Conservative Association ( VKV) at the beginning of the thirties, where he was assigned to the old conservative wing. When there was a dispute within the DNVP faction about the vote on two emergency ordinances on July 18, 1930 and the group in the Kuno von Westarp voted in favor, he resigned from the DNVP with 24 other members of the Reichstag faction .

Activity in industry

In 1920 he left the civil service and switched to the German-Austrian mining company, which was later renamed United Coal AG with its seat in Dresden and where he took the post of director. From 1922 he was a director at Deutsche Erdöl AG, where he was also a member of the board of the Borna Mining Directorate. As a member of the board of directors of the German Brown Coal Industry Association , he also represented their economic interests. As publisher of the private newspaper service , he informed industrialists about the economic policy goals of the NSDAP , whereupon the Reich Association of German Industry (RDI) made a recommendation for this publication.

He represented the industry in several committees of the Association of Employers' Associations and the German Industry and Trade Conference. He was also a member of the supervisory board of the Central German Brown Coal Syndicate . At the Association of Saxon Industrialists, he was a member of the entire board.

Fonts

• The forced economy and the implementation of the restricted delivery obligation [Roesicke system] in the General-Gouvernement of Belgium during the German occupation . Berlin 1920
• Economic policy joint work . Berlin 1924
• German economic hardship. Speech by ... Walther Rademacher at the Nazi Party Congress in Berlin on November 16, 1925 . Berlin 1925
• The appreciation. Lecture . Berlin 1925
• The "cold socialization". Lecture on the occasion of the main meeting of the Working Committee of German National Industrialists on September 9th in Cologne . Berlin 1926
• with Albrecht Philipp: The new revaluation right including the redemption of public bonds, taking into account the implementation ordinance of November 29, 1925, along with practical examples, forms for the necessary registrations and a table. the deadlines to be met, detailed subject index and the text of the laws and of the most important implementing regulations (particularly the implementing regulation of 29 November 1925) . Berlin 1926
• Who is responsible for inflation? Who thwarted the legal entitlement of small pensioners? - From the speech at the session of the Reichstag on February 19, 1929 . Berlin 1929
• Young Plan , Imperial Finances and Economic Situation . Berlin 1930

literature

• Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .
• Cuno Horkenbach: The German Empire from 1918 to today . Berlin 1930+
• Dieter Fricke: Lexicon of Party History Volume 4, Leipzig 1986
• Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR - The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism . Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-7700-5169-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Walther Rademacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walther Rademacher in the database of members of the Reichstag