Wilhelm Vogt

This article deals with the politician Wilhelm Vogt. For people with a similar name, see Wilhelm Voigt .

Wilhelm Vogt

Wilhelm Vogt (born October 26, 1854 in Gochsen ; † May 22, 1938 there ) was a German politician.

Life

After attending the elementary and Latin school in Neuenstadt am Kocher , Wilhelm Vogt completed his military service from 1874 to 1877 with Infantry Regiment No. 122 . He then worked as a farmer in Gochsen, where he also became a community caretaker towards the end of the 19th century.

politics

Wilhelm Vogt was an extremely conservative politician, which included the unreserved affirmation of the monarchy and a völkisch-national attitude. In 1893 he took part in the founding meeting of the Federation of Farmers (BDL) in Berlin . From 1900 to 1918 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Landtag in the Kingdom of Württemberg and from 1903 to 1918 also held a mandate in the Reichstag of the German Empire . In the Reichstag he represented the constituency of Württemberg 11 ( Hall , Backnang , Öhringen , Weinsberg ). After the death of the BDL state chairman in Württemberg, Rudolf Schmid on April 11, 1917, Vogt took over the state chairmanship of the BDL until 1918. The introduction of a parliamentary government in Württemberg towards the end of the First World War was rejected by Vogt. In 1918, Vogt first joined the Württemberg farmers 'union , which in the course of 1919 became part of the Württemberg farmers' and vineyards association (WBWB) and was its state chairman from 1919 to 1933. Wilhelm Vogt had a mandate in the constituent assembly of the free state of Württemberg . In contrast to some members of his parliamentary group (from the farmers 'union and citizens' party ), Vogt voted for the adoption of the draft constitution. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . From 1920 to 1930 Vogt was a member of the DNVP parliamentary group of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic . There he voted in 1924 to accept the Dawes Plan , although the DNVP party leadership firmly rejected it. Vogt developed into an opponent of the DNVP party line around Alfred Hugenberg in the second half of the twenties . Vogt took the attitude of Count Kuno von Westarp as a model and resigned from the DNVP parliamentary group in 1930. In the same year he no longer ran for the newly elected Reichstag and finally withdrew completely from politics.

family

Wilhelm Vogt was the son of the farmer Josef Vogt and Elisabethe Vogt born. Mezger in Gochsen. With his wife Katharina geb. Grötzinger or Grozinger Wilhelm Vogt had six children, including the CDU politician Karl Vogt (1883–1952), who was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Württemberg-Baden in 1946 and from 1946 to 1952 a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden, each for the Heilbronn constituency . Wilhelm Vogt was Protestant.

Honors

• 1910 Great Agricultural Merit Medal
• 1914 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Frederick
• Wilhelm Cross
• 1924 honorary citizen of the community of Gochsen
• 1932 Silver Medal of Honor from the German Tobacco Association
• 1933 Golden badge of honor from the Main Agricultural Association of Württemberg and Hohenzollern

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For the individual elections see 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. 1239-1242.
2. ↑ Information on Karl Vogt from: Frank-Roland Kühnel: Landtag, MPs and constituencies in Baden-Württemberg 1946 to 2009. Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-923476-01-5 , pp. 18, 26 and 31

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. 956-957 .

Web links

• Wilhelm Vogt in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Wilhelm Vogt . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Biography of Wilhelm Vogt . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)