Wilhelm Schall (politician, 1882)

Emil Stumpp Wilhelm Schall (1926)

Wilhelm Friedrich Schall (born April 11, 1882 in Reutlingen , † December 17, 1928 in Heilbronn ) was a German politician in Württemberg .

Life

Wilhelm Schall attended grammar school in Reutlingen and studied law and political science at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin from 1900 to 1905 . During his studies, Schall joined the Roigel student union in 1900 . In 1905 he passed the first higher legal service examination and received his doctorate in 1907 under Professor Philipp Heck in Tübingen. jur. In 1908 he passed the second higher judicial service examination and was assistant judge at the district court in Schwäbisch Hall from December of the same year to February 1909 . In March 1909, with the help of a royal scholarship , Schall was able to travel to the USA , where he stayed until August for study purposes. From September to December 1909 he worked as an assistant judge at the regional court in Stuttgart . In 1910 and 1911 he assisted in the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior, which at the time was officially called the Department of the Interior , and from December 1910 to March 1911 he was deputy bailiff at the Stuttgart city office. In 1913 and 1914 he worked as an assessor at the Upper Insurance Office. From November 1914 to February 1915 he was senior administrator at the Tettnang District Office and then until June 1918 Senior Administrator at the Laupheim District Office . During the years of the First World War , from July 1915, he was also a board member of the Württemberg State Grain Agency, and from December 1915 also board member of the meat supply center for Württemberg and Hohenzollern . In October 1916 he was awarded the rank and title of government councilor. In June 1918, Schall moved back to the Ministry of the Interior in the local department for road and hydraulic engineering. After the November Revolution he was temporarily head of the department for transitional economics in the newly formed Württemberg Ministry of Labor. In February 1919, Schall was appointed Ministerialrat.

politics

Wilhelm Schall was a member of the left-wing liberal DDP , whose Württemberg regional association was in the tradition of the Democratic People's Party . From 1920 to 1921 and from 1925 he was a member of his party's Reich Party Committee. He was also deputy state chairman of the DDP in Württemberg . As a delegate from Württemberg, Schall participated in the German Armistice Commission in Spa and in the peace delegation in Versailles . In each of these delegations he represented economic policy aspects. From June 23, 1920 to November 7, 1921 he was Minister of Labor in the Hieber cabinet and from February 1922 to April 5, 1924 Minister of Finance, which was a particular challenge during the period of inflation . In April 1924, Schall left the coalition government of the DDP and the center with his party friend and cabinet colleague Johannes von Hieber , because the center no longer wanted to support the Württemberg administrative reform in the state parliament after the hyperinflation of 1923. The Hieber government therefore had to be replaced by the Rau interim government shortly before the state elections . From 1924 until his death, Wilhelm Schall was a member of the Württemberg state parliament and in 1928 he was parliamentary group leader of the DDP.

Positions in business

On July 1, 1919, Wilhelm Schall became a deputy member of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft AG in Untertürkheim . From December 4, 1925, he was in charge of the Württemberg Savings Banks and Giro Association . Schall chaired the supervisory boards of the Württembergische Kreditverein AG and the German supply bank AG in Berlin . He was also a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Girozentrale , Württembergische Notenbank AG , Central European Insurance Bank AG in Berlin and the Central Bank of Deutsche Industrie AG , also in Berlin.

Other memberships

Schall sat on the supervisory board of the German Foreign Institute in Stuttgart. He was also a member of the Paneuropean Union , the Federation for the Renewal of the Reich , the Württemberg section of the German-Austrian working group, and a founding member and president of the Society for Personality Research . In 1928 he founded and headed the Württemberg Administrative Academy .

Private

Schall was a Protestant and was married to Elise Hofmann (* 1884 † 1921), whose father Friedrich Hofmann (* 1851 † 1921) had been the district president of the Black Forest district in Reutlingen since 1904 . There were three children from this marriage. After the death of his first wife, Schall married Margarete Schmidgall (* 1892 † 1969) in 1923. Schall suffered from diabetes. When he traveled home in December 1928 after a stay in Berlin, he had to go to the private clinic Dr. Geyer was admitted and died because he had forgotten to take the necessary medication against the disease with him.

Publications

Numerous publications on legal and economic topics have been written by Wilhelm Schall. The focus of his publications were doing on issues of financial constitutional law and the reform of the empire .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 228-229.
• 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. 774-776 .