Wilhelm Haag (politician, 1851)

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Wilhelm Haag

Wilhelm Haag (born August 28, 1851 in Heilbronn ; † May 27, 1926 there ) was a German wine grower and politician .

Life

Haag was a vintner in Heilbronn like his father Martin Haag , from whom he learned the vintner's trade. He was a member of the board of the Heilbronn Weingärtnerverein and a committee member of the Württemberg winegrowing association.

Since 1901, Haag was politically active in the Bund der Landwirte (BdL) and founded a local group in Heilbronn. In the Reichstag constituency of Württemberg III, he was BdL district chairman. In 1906 he ran for office for the Württemberg state parliament in the 1st state constituency and in the Heilbronn constituency, but was defeated by the SPD candidate Wilhelm Schäffler . In the by-election required after Schäffler's death on January 11, 1911, he ran again and was defeated by August Hornung (SPD). In the 1912 election he ran for the Brackenheim constituency and was elected to the state parliament in a runoff election against the previous mandate holder Friedrich von Balz ( DP ), in which he was a member of the Economic Committee from 1915 to 1918.

End of 1918 acted Hague in the establishment of the new regional organization of the Wuerttemberg small farmers and tenants Federal (WKWB) with the beginning of 1919 in a major Wuerttemberg peasants and tenants Bund rose (wbwb). When he was elected to the constituent assembly of the Free People's State of Württemberg in January 1919, he was elected to the assembly at number 1 on the WKWB's state list and became chairman of the petitions committee. In April and September 1919 he voted against the Württemberg constitution.

In the Reichstag election in 1920 he ran in constituency 34 (Württemberg) as well as in third place on the state list of the DNVP and moved into the Reichstag, to which he belonged until 1924. He did not run for the Reichstag election in 1924; instead, his son Heinrich Haag moved into the Reichstag, to which he belonged until 1933.

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. 299-300 .

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