Eduard Hamm
Eduard Hamm (7 March 1881 – 2 September 1944) was a German lawyer and politician who served in several government positions during the Weimar Republic. Hamm studied law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and subsequently worked in the Bavarian civil service. He later became a member of the Bavarian Landtag and the German Reichstag, representing the German Democratic Party. Hamm served as Minister for Trade, Industry and Commerce in the government of the Free State of Bavaria from 1919 to 1922, and later as Reich Minister for Economics under Chancellor Wilhelm Marx.[1]
After retiring from politics in 1933, Hamm worked as a lawyer in Berlin and Munich. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 following the 20 July Plot and died under mysterious circumstances in prison. Hamm was married to Maria von Merz and had three children.
Early life
The son of an Oberlandesgerichtsrat attended high schools in
After passing the exam, Hamm entered the Bavarian civil service and worked as a "helper" (Hilfskraft) in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice from 1906, then as a Third Public Prosecutor at the
In 1911, he was appointed to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and in 1916 was seconded from it as a board member to the Zentral-Einkaufsgesellschaft. Subsequently, he worked as a councilor at the War Food Office in Berlin until he returned to the Bavarian Interior Ministry in 1917. In early 1918, he became a Legation Councilor in the Trade Department of the Bavarian State Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Political career
After the
From 31 May 1919 to 24 July 1922, Hamm was Minister for Trade, Industry and Commerce in the governments of the Free State of Bavaria led by the Prime Ministers
After leaving the federal government, Hamm was a member of the executive board of the
As early as 1920/1921, Hamm had denounced the "anti-Semitic propaganda" of the National Socialists in the Bavarian cabinet and had requested a ban on the
After the
Personal life
Eduard Hamm was married to Maria von Merz since 1907, with whom he had two daughters and a son. The historian Wolfgang Hardtwig is his grandson.
Legacy
He is buried in the Waldfriedhof Munich; his grave was declared an honorary grave by Mayor Christian Ude. Part of his estate has been in the Passau City Archives since 2017.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Wolfgang Hardtwig, Manuel Limbach: Bürger gegen Hitler. Zum 70. Gedenken an den 20. Juli 1944 muss auch an den bayerischen Widerstandskreis um Franz Sperr erinnert werden. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 18. Juli 2014, S. 12, online.
- ^ Verband Alter SVer (VASV): Anschriftenbuch. Mitgliederverzeichnis sämtlicher Alten Herren. Stand vom 1. Oktober 1937. Hannover 1937, p. 153.
- ^ Elke Fischer (20 July 2017). "Ein wertvolles Stück Geschichte". Passauer Neue Presse (in German). Archived from the original on 1 July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
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