Hermann Dietrich
Robert Hermann Dietrich ( born December 14, 1879 in Oberprechtal, † March 6, 1954 in Stuttgart) was a politician of the German Democratic Party and Prime Minister during the Weimar Republic.
Life and career
After graduation in 1897 at the Gymnasium in Lörrach studied Dietrich, the Protestant faith was until 1901 in Strasbourg, Basel, Göttingen and Heidelberg law. In Strasbourg, he joined the German fraternity Arminia Strasbourg, whose honorary president he became. After the subsequent clerkship, he was from 1905 Stadtrechtsrat in Karlsruhe.
1947 Dietrich became director of the Office of Food and Agriculture in the United Economic Area.
Party
In the Empire, Dietrich was a member of the National Liberal Party. Unlike most of his fellow party members, he joined the People's Party in 1918 not to, but participated in the founding of the DDP. There he was regarded as the undisputed leading figure of the party in the state of Baden. After the formal education of the German State Party after the general election in 1930 Dietrich was elected its chairman.
After the Second World War, he was co-founder of the Democratic People's Party, which became the National Association of FDP in Baden- Württemberg later.
Member of Parliament
Dietrich was from 1911 to 1921 Member of the Baden Landtag. In 1919 he was elected as an MP in the Weimar National Assembly, resigned his seat but down already on 12 April 1919. In 1920 he returned with his election to the German Reichstag back in imperial politics. He was until July 1933 a member of parliament. Although, as Theodor Heuss, initially opposed the approval of the Enabling Act, he leaned over the majority of the other three state party deputies (Ernst Lemmer, Reinhold Maier and Henry Landahl ) and approved the law in the Reichstag. Compared with critics such as Friedrich indulgences he justified this with the fact that it had arrived on the State to protect many party members in the civil service, which would have been immediately dismissed with a refusal by the Nazis.
Public offices
From 1908 to 1914, Mayor of Dietrich Kehl, then to 1919, Mayor of Konstanz.
Dietrich was from November 1918 to 1920 Baden Minister of Foreign Affairs. He served in the Weimar Republic 1928-1932 various cabinet posts. In the cabinet Müller II he knew the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture; in the following Brüning cabinet I he continued this office, then moved to the top of the Treasury, which he led in the second Brüning cabinet. Under Heinrich Brüning, he also served as Vice-Chancellor ( March 30, 1930 to 30 May 1932). As finance minister, he was responsible for its deflationary policies, which resulted in parts of the DDP, especially in the more left Hamburg State Association to considerable bitterness.
Honors
Dietrich was in 1952 awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany. According to him, the Hermann- Dietrich-Straße in Kehl and the Hermann -Dietrich House of Strassburger fraternity Arminia are named in Tübingen in the garden in Tübingen.