Reinhold Maier
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Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 25 April 1952 – 30 September 1953 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preceded by | himself (as Minister-President of Württemberg-Baden) Gebhard Müller (as Minister-President of Württemberg-Hohenzollern) Leo Wohleb (as Minister-President of Baden) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Gebhard Müller | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minister-President of Württemberg-Baden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 19 September 1945 – 25 April 1952 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preceded by | Walter Köhler (as Minister-President of the Republic of Baden) Christian Mergenthaler (as Minister-President of the Free People's State of Württemberg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | himself (as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | First World War | 16 October 1889||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reinhold Maier (16 October 1889 – 19 August 1971) was a German politician and the leader of the FDP from 1957–1960. From 1946 to 1952 he was Minister President of Württemberg-Baden and then the 1st Minister President of the new state of Baden-Württemberg until 1953.
He served as the 4th President of the
Maier was born in Schorndorf.
Early life
Maier, a Protestant, was born the son of a municipal architect, Gottlieb Maier, in Schorndorf.
After attending grammar school in Schorndorf, Reinhold Maier attended the Dillmann-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and, in 1907, received his Abitur. He then studied law at the
Career
Already a member of the Progressive People's Party (Germany) (FVP) since 1912, Maier joined the newly formed left-wing liberal German Democratic Party (DDP) in 1918. In 1924 he became chairman of the Stuttgart District Association of DDP.
In 1945 Maier participated in the founding of the Democratic People's Party (Germany)(DVP), not to be confused with the German People's Party of the Weimar Republic. The DVP was absorbed by the FDP in 1948.
Maier became Minister President of “Württemberg-Baden”, a constituent state of the subsequent ‘’Land’’ of Baden-Württemberg in 1945, following the collapse of the Nazi regime, which in its twilight had claimed the life of his former boss, the last elected Minister President
After the formation of the coalition of FDP / DVP,
Deputy
Maier was 1932–1933 a member of parliament for the German State Party. At the same time he was from 1932 to 1933 a member of the Württemberg Landtag . On 23 March 1933, he voted for the Enabling Act together with the other four liberal Reichstag deputies Hermann Dietrich, Theodor Heuss, Heinrich Landahl , and Ernst Lemmer. The final sentence of his speech was: For the sake of people and country and in anticipation of a legitimate development, we will rescind our serious concerns and approve the Enabling Act.[3] According to the informations of Theodor Heuss in his memoirs, the five liberal Reichstag deputies have initially been divided with respect to the Enabling Act. Heuss had formulated two explanations, one for rejection, one for abstention. At his side, however, was only Hermann Dietrich. Heinrich Landahl, Ernst Lemmer and Reinhold Maier voted in the Reichstag group for approval. Heuss and Dietrich were overruled, so then all Liberal MPs voted for the Enabling Act.[4] In the Weimar Republic Maier was a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP). In 1945 he was a founder of the Democratic People's Party (DVP), which is now the Baden-Württemberg-Organisation of the FDP.
He died in Stuttgart.
References
- ^ "Bundesanzeiger, Jg. 6, Nr. 25" (Press release) (in German). Federal Ministry of Justice. 5 February 1954.
- ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5, S. 560 und 566 (Zugleich: Hamburg, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Dissertation, 2004).
- ^ "Verhandlungen des Reichstags, stenographischer Bericht, 23. März 1933". p. 38.
Im Interesse von Volk und Vaterland und in der Erwartung einer gesetzmäßigen Entwicklung werden wir unsere ernsten Bedenken zrückstellen und dem Ermächtigungsgesetz zustimmen.
- ^ Heuss, Theodor (1967). Pikart, Eberhard (ed.). Die Machtergreifung und das Ermächtigungsgesetz. Zwei nachgelassene Kapitel der "Erinnerungen 1905–1933". Tübingen: Wunderlich. p. 24.