Johann Becker (politician)

Johann Baptist Becker ( born February 3, 1869 in Ludwig height; † October 17, 1951 ) was a German jurist and politician ( DVP ).

Life

After Becker, the Roman Catholic faith was, had first visited the school in Oppenheim, he moved to the gymnasium to Mainz, where he in 1887 the Abitur. He then studied law and political sciences at Giessen, Leipzig, Munich and Berlin. In Giessen, he became a member of the fraternity Landsmannschaft Chattia. In 1890 he passed the state examination. After he had been in 1892 received his doctorate of rights, followed in 1894 the Great State Examination. After two years as a junior barrister he was public prosecutor in 1896, a short time later magistrate. In 1897 he moved to the Hessian Ministry of Finance, where he was in 1900 promoted to Oberfinanzrat and two years later as head of the tax department for the Ministerial.

At the beginning of the 20th century. he founded together with his brother Jacob, the winery brothers Dr. Becker that the family has now managed by the fourth generation and led to the VDP.

1920 to 1923 he was a board member of the Rhenish Steel Works Meiderich.

Becker was next state chairman of the Hessian Red Cross and chairman of the National Association for warriors homes.

He was buried in the forest cemetery Darmstadt.

Party

Becker comes from the National Liberal Party, the 1918 umgründete in the German People's Party. In 1924, he left with other representatives of the right wing, the DVP and founded the short-lived National Liberal Party Empire, which rose in the DNVP 1925. But he was always as DVP- deputy to the Reichstag.

Member of Parliament

After the First World War, he was elected to the Weimar National Assembly and was then a member of parliament to December 1924. From 1928 to 1930 he was again a member of parliament.

Public offices

Becker was from January 1916 to November 1918 Minister of Finance in the Government of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. He sat in particular for the promotion of the University of Giessen and the Technical University of Darmstadt. First, he bore the title of President of the Treasury and then a finance minister. With the November Revolution of 1918 ended his term in office.

In the period of hyperinflation in the years 1922 and 1923 he served as Minister of Economics.