Theodor von Guérard

Karl Theodor von Guérard ( born December 29, 1863 in Koblenz, † July 21, 1943 in Ahaus ) was a German jurist and politician ( center ).

Life and career

Guérard was born the son of a Obergerichtsprokurators. After graduating from high school in Dusseldorf, he began his studies in law and political science at the universities of Freiburg, Bonn and Berlin, which he finished in 1885 with the first legal state exam. He joined in 1886 as a court clerk in the Prussian judicial service and moved two years later as a government clerk in administrative services. After the second legal state exam in 1891, he was Regierungsassessor. From 1905 to 1928 he worked as a civil servant at the then Prefect of the Rhine Province in Koblenz, most recently as Senior Government Secret.

Member of Parliament

Guérard was elected at the general election in June 1920 in the German Reichstag, where he remained until September 1930. In Parliament, he represented the constituency of Koblenz- Trier. He spoke in 1924 for a government coalition with the DNVP from, advocated after 1926 but again a remake of the Weimar Coalition. He was also Vice- President since 1926 of the centrist group in the Reichstag.

Public offices

Guérard was 1898-1905 District Administrator of Montjoie. He was appointed on 28 June 1928 as Reich Minister of Transport in the run of Chancellor Hermann Müller government and taking over as acting head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Territories. After the call the Center Party after three ministries in the Reichstag on the DVP opposition had failed, he resigned on February 6, 1929, first from the imperial government, then officiated but as of April 13, 1929 as Minister of Justice. Since March 31, 1930 Guérard was again Reich Minister of Transport in the led by Chancellor Heinrich Brüning government. At the request of Paul von Hindenburg he laid on October 9, 1931 from his office.