Wilhelm Bazille

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Wilhelm Bazille
Wilhelm Bazille as a liaison student at Virtembergia Tubingensis around 1895

Wilhelm Bazille ( ˈvɪlhɛlm ba.ziː ) (born February 25, 1874 in Esslingen am Neckar ; † February 1, 1934 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer and politician ( DNVP ).

Life

Wilhelm Bazille was the son of the metalworker Peter Franz Bazille (1839–1917) from Savoy and Anna Amalia Rieb (1843–1921) from Württemberg. He grew up in Geislingen an der Steige , where his father was a foreman at the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik . After passing the school leaving examination in Ulm in 1892, Bazille studied law and political science in Tübingen and Munich . During his studies, he became a member of the fraternity A. V. Virtembergia in Tübingen .

For health reasons, Bazille was exempted from military service. In 1899 he entered the civil service as a bailiff in Mergentheim and in 1900 moved to Stuttgart, where from 1911 he worked as a councilor at the state trade office. During the First World War he was President of the Civil Administration in the occupied Belgian province of Limburg from 1914 to 1918 .

Bazille first joined the young liberals and founded the Württemberg Citizens' Party in 1919 , which had been a regional group of the DNVP since 1920 . He was a member of the Württemberg state parliament from 1919 to 1932 and a member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1930 . Until 1930 he held his mandates in the parliamentary group of the citizens' party and in the Reichstag faction of the DNVP. From 1930 to 1932 he was non-attached.

On June 3, 1924, Bazille was elected President of Württemberg as successor to Edmund Rau and formed a coalition of the citizens 'party, farmers' union and center. Because of the heavy electoral defeat of the Citizens' Party in the state elections on May 20, 1928, Bazille gave up the office of President on June 8, 1928 to his coalition partner Eugen Bolz from the center , who advocated further cooperation with the conservatives. Bazille remained the Württemberg Minister of Culture until the end of the Bolz government on March 11, 1933 .

Due to internal party opposition to Alfred Hugenberg , he resigned from the civil party in 1930. After retiring from politics, he worked on the constitution and constitutional law in Württemberg as well as on the law of citizenship. He committed suicide on February 1, 1934. His grave is in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart .

Bazille married Lilly Ensinger (1884–1976) in 1912, from whom he had three children. His son Helmut Bazille was a member of the German Bundestag for the SPD from 1949 to 1969 .

See also

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 54.
  2. ↑ The official spelling for the term “ Minister of Culture ” used today was formerly Minister of Culture in Württemberg

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 40 .
  • Hans Peter Müller: Wilhelm Bazille. German national politician, President of Württemberg (1874–1934) . In: Life pictures from Baden-Württemberg . Volume 21. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005
  • Hans Peter Müller: Wilhelm Bazille. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische biographies including Hohenzollern personalities. Volume II. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021530-6 .
  • 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 .
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bazille, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1934
Place of death Stuttgart