Franz Bracht

Clemens Emil Franz Bracht ( born November 23, 1877 in Berlin, † November 26, 1933 ) was a German jurist and politician ( center, later independent).

Life and career

Bracht was born the son of a doctor. After graduation in 1894 he took a degree in law and political science at the universities of Würzburg and Berlin, laid in 1900 the first legal state exam and then worked as a trainee lawyer in Berlin. He finished his internship in 1904 with the second legal state examination and was then Assessor to the prosecutor in Koszalin, the District Court of Essen and at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm. In 1909 he was a prosecutor in food, but later moved to the Oberlandesgericht Hamm.

Bracht worked since 1908 as an employee of the Reich Insurance Office (RVA ) in Berlin, where he was promoted in 1911 to the Government. He also worked from 1916 to 1918 as a lecturer in administrative law at the Agricultural College in Berlin. From 1918 to 1923 he worked as a lecturer Council in the Reich Ministry of the Interior and the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Welfare of the state of Prussia. In the late phase of the Weimar Republic, he was a member of numerous boards of directors and supervisory boards of companies. In 1930 he was promoted to Privy Councillor. Bracht died in 1933 from heart disease and was buried at the West Stahnsdorf in Berlin.

Party

Bracht was first a member of the Centre Party, but the party left the early 1930s and was then no party affiliation.

Public offices

Bracht was 1923/1924 served as State Secretary in the Reich Chancellery and was appointed on 18 December 1924 Lord Mayor of the city of Essen. In the course of the so-called " Prussia shock " on July 27, 1932 Bracht was appointed Deputy Reich Commissioner for Prussia. He was commissioned to carry out the duties of the Prussian Minister of the Interior. On October 31, 1932, he resigned from his mayoral.

Bracht was appointed on 29 October 1932 as Reich Minister without Portfolio in the run by Chancellor Franz von Papen Reich government. On 3 December 1932 he was appointed, headed by Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher imperial government of the Reich Minister of the Interior. With the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor he retired from the national government on 30 January 1933.

Honors

• Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Aachen, 1930

Others

• Bracht was responsible for the final political farce of the Weimar Republic. On September 28, 1932, he adopted the Police Regulation supplementing the bathing Police Regulation of 18 August 1932 the so-called " crotch " decree.
• Since 1897 Bracht was a member of the Corps Rhenaniastraße Würzburg.