Economic Association (German Empire)

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The economic association was a parliamentary group of several anti-Semite and peasant parties in the Reichstag of the German Empire .

history

After the Reichstag election in 1903 , Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg, a member of the Reichstag , founded the Economic Association as a parliamentary group of the German Social Party (DSP) and the Christian Social Party (CSP) as well as members of the Federation of Farmers (BdL) and the Bavarian Farmers' Union (BB) . The parliamentary group advocated special duties on English goods. They should protect the competitiveness of German companies that were threatened by a wave of bankruptcies. Agriculture should be protected against falling prices on the globalized agricultural market with high protective tariffs. Since the Reichstag election in 1907 , the parliamentary group also included right-wing members of parliament who had explicitly stood as candidates for the Economic Association during the election campaign. The faction was usually seen in the empire as a collection of anti-Semitic forces.

The parliamentary groups of the economic association in the Reichstag

11th legislative period (1903–1907)

After the Reichstag election in 1903, there were initially twelve members of the Economic Association in the Reichstag:

12th legislative period (1907–1912)

After the Reichstag election in 1907, the Economic Association's faction was at its greatest strength with 19 members:

  • Karl Böhme (DSP, constituency Marburg)
  • Walther Graef (DSP, constituency Weimar)
  • Richard Herzog (DSP, constituency Hofgeismar)
  • Philipp Köhler (DSP, constituency Gießen)
  • Wilhelm Lattmann (DSP, constituency of Kassel)
  • Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg (DSP, Fritzlar constituency)
  • Friedrich Raab (DSP, Eschwege constituency)
  • Franz Behrens (CSP, constituency of Wetzlar)
  • Georg Burckhardt (CSP, constituency Dillenburg)
  • Adolf Stoecker (CSP, constituency Siegen)
  • Jonathan Roth (BdL, constituency Böblingen)
  • Heinrich Stauffer (BdL, constituency Homburg)
  • Friedrich Vogt (BdL, constituency Crailsheim)
  • Wilhelm Vogt (BdL, constituency Hall)
  • Kurd von Damm (constituency Holzminden)
  • Otto Hanisch (constituency of Pirna)
  • Viktor Kölle (constituency of Goslar)
  • Carl Rieseberg (constituency of Wanzleben)
  • Wilhelm Schack (Eisenach constituency)

13th legislative period (1912–1918)

After the Reichstag election in 1912, the faction of the Economic Association was reduced to eight members:

  • Richard Herzog (DSP, constituency Hofgeismar)
  • Johann Rupp (DSP, constituency Marburg)
  • Franz Behrens (CSP, constituency of Wetzlar)
  • Georg Burckhardt (CSP, constituency Dillenburg)
  • Reinhard Mumm (CSP, constituency Siegen)
  • Karl Gebhart (BdL, constituency Homburg)
  • Georg Vietmeyer (Waldeck constituency)
  • Ferdinand Werner (constituency of Giessen)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reichstag Handbuch 1903. (pdf) Munich Digitization Center, p. 358 , accessed on November 20, 2009 .
  2. ^ Reichstag handbook 1907. (pdf) Munich Digitization Center, p. 413 , accessed on November 20, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Reichstag Handbook 1912. (pdf) Munich Digitization Center, p. 416 , accessed on November 20, 2009 .