Wilhelm Boehmert

Wilhelm Boehmert

Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Böhmert (born August 23, 1866 in Bremen , † February 4, 1946 in Bremen) was a German politician ( Free People's Party , Progressive People's Party , DDP ).

biography

education and profession

Böhmert was the son of an economist who held various offices. He lived in Zurich as a child and moved to Dresden with his family in 1878 . Here he graduated from grammar school and, until 1885, the Princely School of Meissen . From 1885 to 1889 he studied law and political science as well as mathematics at the University of Tübingen , the University of Leipzig and the Humboldt University of Berlin . His studies were interrupted by his military service with the 125th regiment. After obtaining his doctorate in philosophy in Berlin in 1891 , Böhmert completed his legal clerkship and then worked as a court assessor in Hanover and in 1895 in Einbeck .

In 1900 he was appointed director of the Bureau for Bremen Statistics of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . He expanded the office into the Bremen Statistical Office , which has been operating as the State Statistical Office of Bremen since 1921 . Numerous publications on statistics come from him and established his national reputation. Among other things, he wrote about the housing situation in Neustadt, birth statistics and cancer statistics.

During the First World War he served as captain of the land reserve in a replacement battalion. In 1933 the National Socialists dismissed him from his office as director due to the law to restore the civil service .

He was a member of the Association for Social Policy , the Society for Social Reform and the Federation of Land Reformers . The Wilhelm-Böhmert-Strasse in Bremen was named after him.

politics

In the German Empire, Böhmert belonged first to the Free People's Party and then to the Progressive People's Party . He headed the Bremen local group here since 1910 and criticized the class suffrage in Bremen. He advocated women's suffrage and supported the Bremen women's movement . Böhmert belonged to the Bremen citizenship from 1912 to 1918 .

In 1918 he participated in the establishment of the German Democratic Party (DDP) and he was chairman of the party in Bremen. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Bremen National Assembly and the Weimar National Assembly . He was also a senator in the provisional senate of Bremen under Karl Deichmann (MSPD) from January 9 to July 9, 1920 . He was again a member of the Bremen citizenship from 1920 to 1930.

After 1945 he participated in the establishment of the Bremen Democratic People's Party (BDV), which in 1948 became the FDP in Bremen.

Publications (selection)

• 100 years of birth statistics in Bremen , Leuwer, Bremen, 1926.
• Bremen 1900–1927 . Bremen extra. State Office, Bremen 1929. Bremen 1931.
• The elements of growth in a major German city (Bremen 1900–1930) .
• Study of cancer deaths in major cities in the world . In: La Haye: Inst. Internat. De statistique, 1937.
• What can statistics do to shed light on the cancer problem? . La Haye 1938.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Hillger, Handbook of the German Constituent Assembly, Leipzig 1919.
• Herbert Wenhold: Boehmert, Justin Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 58 (column 2) to p. 60 (column 1).
• 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 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Böhmert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wilhelm Böhmert in the database of members of the Reichstag