Johann Victor Bredt – Konservative Politik zwischen Kaiserreich und Nationalsozialismus
Eine politische Biographie
by Martin Grosch
Paperback (Published)
(October 2014)
ISBN: 9783832538286
5.75 x 8.31 inches
Price: $47.00
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English summary: Johann Victor Bredt (1879-1940) was a conservative politician of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. Since 1910, Professor for State, Administrative, National and Church Law in Marburg, he was first involved in the Free Conservative Party and later, during the Weimar Republic, with the Economic Party (WP), of which he was the intellectual head. In 1924, he became a delegate in the Reichstag and achieved the position of Minister of Justice in Brunings first cabinet, marking the height of his political career. In Bredts biography, key internal and external political aspects of the Weimar Republic are pooled together. Bredt personality is also able to be analyzed on the basis of questions about possible traditions and the breaks from the Empire that persisted into the Weimar period. Bredt embodied, as did many middle-class intellectuals of his time, the type of the nationally engaged bourgeois-conservative university professor. To the end, his great wish was for a restoration of the Hohenzollern monarchy, but it was clear to him, as a realist, that such a goal could not be realized. His period of activity in the WP and his activity in the Reichstag provided him with the means, as far as he was able, to shape the republic by increments in a national-conservative sense. Bredt particularly embodied as an important politician of the second wave the ambivalent intermediary position of a hesitant and goal-oriented republican within a generation fundamentally shaped by Bismarck. German description: Johann Victor Bredt (1879-1940) war ein konservativer Politiker des Kaiserreichs und der Weimarer Republik. Seit 1910 Professor fur Staats-, Verwaltungs-, Volker- und Kirchenrecht in Marburg engagierte er sich zunachst in der Freikonservativen Partei, spater wahrend der Weimarer Republik dann in der Wirtschaftspartei (WP), deren intellektueller Kopf er war. 1924 wurde er Abgeordneter im Reichstag und erreichte mit dem Amt des Justizministers im 1. Kabinett Bruning den Zenit seiner politischen Karriere. In Bredts Biographie bundeln sich zentrale innen- wie aussenpolitische Aspekte der Weimarer Republik. Auch Fragen nach moglichen Traditionen sowie Bruchen vom Kaiserreich hin zu Weimar konnen an seiner Person untersucht werden. Bredt verkorperte wie viele burgerliche Intellektuelle seiner Zeit den Typus des von einer nationalen Haltung gepragten burgerlich-konservativen Hochschullehrers. Bis zuletzt blieb eine Restauration der Hohenzollern sein grosser Wunsch, als Realpolitiker war ihm aber klar, dass er nicht zu verwirklichen war. Sein Engagement in der WP und somit im parlamentarischen Betrieb diente ihm als Mittel, die Republik, soweit es ihm moglich war, im nationalkonservativen Sinne evolutionar zu verandern. Insgesamt verkorperte Bredt als ein wichtiger Politiker der “zweiten Reihe” die ambivalente Zwischenstellung eines Verlegenheits- und Zweckrepublikaners innerhalb einer von Bismarck massiv gepragten Generation.
- By (author) Martin Grosch
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