Karl Jarres
Karl Jarre ( born September 21, 1874 in Remscheid, † October 20, 1951 in Duisburg, Germany ) was a German politician ( DVP ) in the Weimar Republic.
Life
After graduating from high school in Elberfeld Jarre studied law in Bonn, Berlin, London and Paris. He was a member of the fraternity Alemannia Bonn and since 1919 a member of the fraternity Alemannia Münster since 1894. 1897 Jarre was in Erlangen, Dr. jur. doctorate. He embarked on a management career and in 1901 the city assessor in the town of Düren. In 1903 he was elected there to the Assistant Secretary. In 1906 he joined the administration of the city of Cologne and was from 1910 to 1914 mayor of Remscheid, from 1911 Lord Mayor. Subsequently, he was from 1914 to 1933 mayor of Duisburg. With the election as mayor, he acquired the simultaneous membership for the city of Duisburg in the Prussian mansion.
1918 joined the former National Liberal the right-liberal DVP. He was assigned to the right- wing of the party. When Kapp Putsch he stood on the side of the legitimate government Bauer. At the beginning of the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 he was expelled and because he refused to obey, brought before a Belgian court-martial and sentenced to two months in prison. After his release, he was due for his fight for the passive resistance against the allied occupying powers, the so-called " Versackungspolitik " policy, "the hero of the nation." For the national government and the Prussian government, he was an informant for the unity of the empire and advocate antiseparatistischer positions.
After the policy of passive resistance had failed, he was appointed by Stresemann as a minister in the Reich Cabinet. So he held in addition to the Mayor items 1923 to 1924 the office of the Minister of the Interior and the Vice-Chancellor in the cabinets Stresemann II, Marx I and Marx II In the presidential election in 1925 Jarre received on the first ballot the most votes ( 10,416,658 = 38, 8 %), but withdrew in the second round his candidacy in favor of Hindenburg back. Politically, he was then close to Gustav Stresemann.
As Mayor of the City of Duisburg he tried in vain to the incorporation of the left-bank locations Homberg and Rheinhaus who came in 1975 to Duisburg. In one study, he also suggested the formation of a Ruhr estuary town. He reached only the incorporation of Hamborn 1929, making the city a short time was called until 1935 Duisburg -Hamborn.
The Nazis stood Jarres critical: it should make the Wedaustadion for a rally of the NSDAP accessible and refused the opening. Then it should have come to the following exchange with a Nazi: " It come an awful lot of people! [ Jarre replies ] I suppose you mean: . Many weird people "
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, he lost all political offices and was active in the economy. He was up to his death, Chairman of the Board of several companies in the Ruhr area. He was also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Klöckner Werke AG, with its owner, the industrialist Peter Klöckner, he was a close friend. In addition, he was a board member of several industrial companies such as Demag AG and Head of the Water Board Schwammenauel, which built the Rurtalsperre there.
In July 1945, he sent a memorandum to the British Field Security Service. Unlike, say, Ernst Poensgen and especially Walter Rohland in their writings of the same year, he admitted it openly, the seduction of the German population by Nazi ideas. He is next to his competitors Adenauer as one of the "big Rhenish Mayor ".
Karl Jarre was initially buried in the family tomb in Remscheid. In 1966 he was reburied at the Duisburg Forest Cemetery.
Family
One daughter was married to the German art historian Herbert von Einem.