Wilhelm Mayer (politician)

Wilhelm Mayer

Wilhelm Mayer (born November 18, 1874 in Enkenbach , † March 6, 1923 in Munich ) was a German politician ( center , BVP ).

Life and work

After attending the elementary school in Enkenbach , Mayer, who was a Roman Catholic , switched to the grammar school in Kaiserslautern , where he passed the Abitur. He then studied law and political science in Heidelberg , Würzburg and Munich . In Würzburg he received his doctorate in political science in 1898. In 1900 he passed the “legal state bankruptcy” in Munich, as the second state examination in Bavaria was called at the time.

From February 1920 to January 1923 Mayer was the German ambassador to France . He was recalled by President Friedrich Ebert in protest against the French invasion of the Ruhr area .

Wilhelm Mayer was the father of the CSU politician Maria Probst (1902–1967).

Political party

Mayer originally belonged to the center . When the Bavarian regional association split off on January 9, 1920, Mayer also took part in the founding of the new Bavarian People's Party .

MP

Mayer had been a member of the Reichstag since 1907, where he represented the constituency of Swabia 5 ( Kaufbeuren ) until the end of the Empire . Until his resignation on February 17, 1920, he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . From the election of the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic until his death, he was again a member of the Reichstag .

Public offices

June 21, 1919 to January 30, 1920, Mayer Reich Treasury Minister in the Cabinet Bauer .

estate

• An estate with a total of 8 volumes can be found in the archive of the Institute for Contemporary History under the call number ED 367.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1114-1116.
2. ^ Institute for Contemporary History - Annual Report 2005 ( Memento from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Mayer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mayer (Schwaben), Wilhelm in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Wilhelm Mayer in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Biography of Wilhelm Mayer . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Newspaper article about Wilhelm Mayer in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .