Wilhelm Lattmann

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Wilhelm Lattmann

Wilhelm Lattmann (born October 5, 1864 in Göttingen , † April 20, 1935 in Goslar ) was a German politician (DSP, DSWV, DNVP).

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Wilhelm Lattmann, the son of the high school teacher Julius Lattmann (1818–1898), attended elementary school and high school in Clausthal. After graduating from high school, which he passed in 1883, he studied law in Tübingen (1883 to 1885) and Göttingen (1885 to 1887). During his studies in 1883 he became a member of the Normannia Tübingen Association . In 1892 he married. The marriage resulted in the future General Martin Lattmann , who was a leading member of the National Committee for Free Germany during the Second World War . A grandson of Lattmann is the writer and former SPD member of the Bundestag Dieter Lattmann .

As a lawyer, Lattmann made it up to the district judge (district court judge) in Schmalkalden .

Politically, Lattmann began to be active in right-wing parties in the empire in the 1890s . In June 1903 Lattmann was elected to the Reichstag for the first time , in which he represented the constituency of Kassel 2 (Kassel-Melsungen) until January 1912. He was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1904 to 1908 . From 1911 to 1914 Lattmann officiated as chairman of the German Social Party , then from 1915 to 1918 as chairman of the German National Party .

Lattmann attracted public attention in particular as one of the most aggressive anti-Semites in the empire. Politically, he took this into account by temporarily joining the German Social Economic Association (DSWV), which had made anti-Semitism one of its main agenda items, and chaired its parliamentary group in the Reichstag.

In the Reichstag, Lattmann took a position on colonial policy , among other things , in which he spoke of “a sensible master’s standpoint”: in this sense, Lattmann, who saw himself as a “progressive” on the colonial question, insisted that the black Africans in the German colonies - even after a conversion to Christianity - the white inhabitants, "from the racial point of view", could not be regarded as equals.

After the war, Lattmann became a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP). In October 1919, he entered the Weimar National Assembly as a replacement for this , where he replaced the resigned MP Karl Veidt .

Fonts

  • The history and the current state of the guild system in Germany. 1908.
  • The truth about the imperial financial reform. 1909.
  • The social tasks of our people in the light of the Reichstag election. 1912.
  • Crossbow shooting and May Festival in 1614. Thuringian folk festival in 3 records. 1914.
  • State aid in distress popular representation of the main ... 1915.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , p. 246.
  • Elke Kimmel: Lattmann, Wilhelm , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/2, 2009, p. 457

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John C. Dove: Who's Who in Germany 1992. 1992, p. 1330.
  2. ^ Charles Robert Bacheller: Class and Conservatism. 1981, p. 449.
  3. ^ Dieter Fricke: Lexicon for the history of parties. 1983.
  4. ↑ Stanley Suval: Electoral Politics in Wilhelmine Germany. 1985, p. 140. Also Helmut Berding: Moderner Antisemitismus in Deutschland. 1988, p. 137.
  5. ^ Thomas Ormond: Dignity of a judge and loyalty to the government 1994, p. 320.
  6. ^ Sara Friedrichsmeyer: The Imperialist Imagination. German Colonialism and Its Legacy. 1999, p. 115.
  7. ^ Negotiations of the constituent German National Assembly. Volume 343, Berlin 1920, p. 3505 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Lattmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (DSP, DSWV, DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1935
Place of death Goslar