Johann Viktor Bredt

Johann Viktor Bredt ( born March 2, 1879 in Barmen, † December 12, 1940 in Marburg ) was a German constitutional lawyer and politician of the Party of the German middle class.

Life and career

Bredt was the son of Barmener manufacturers and bankers Viktor Bredt, he came from a long-established Reformed family. 1897/98 he was a bank clerk at Barmer bank association. He then studied in Tübingen, Göttingen and Bonn economics and law. He received his doctorate in 1901 for Dr. jur. and 1904, Dr. phil. , to then be administrative officer. In 1909 he qualified as a professor in Heidelberg and in 1910 was appointed to a public service professor at the University of Marburg where he especially Canon Law edited scientifically in addition to the State law. 1925, the theological honorary doctorate he was awarded by the University of Bonn for his work in the field of canon law.

Political action

Bredt belonged to the empire of the Free Conservatives and founded in 1920 the Reich Party of the German middle class with which he presided also since 1931.

1910-1921 Bredt was a city councilor in Marburg. 1911 to 1918 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the Free Conservatives. 1921 to 1924 he was member of parliament in Prussia and then to 1932, member of the Reichstag. In the Reichstag, he was leader of the party of big business. In 1926 he was chairman of the committee of inquiry into the causes of the German collapse in World War II.

He was in 1930 in the Brüning cabinet I Minister of Justice. He resigned on 5 December 1930 after the Reich Committee of the Economic Party had rejected the financial program of fiscal consolidation by Heinrich Brüning on 25 November and had thus effectively terminated the coalition participation.

Publications

  • The separation of church and state. 1919
  • The rights of the Summus Episcopus. 1919
  • Create an evangelical church law for Prussia. 3 vols, 1921-27
  • The spirit of the German Imperial Constitution. 1924
  • The German Reichstag in World War II. 1926
  • The Constitution of the Reformed Church in Cleve - Julich-Berg - Mark. 1938
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