Ludwig Siebert
Ludwig Siebert (17 October 1874 in Ludwigshafen – 1 November 1942 in Stock am Chiemsee) was a National Socialist German Workers' Party politician and Bavarian Minister President from 1933 to 1942.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Honors
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Biography
Siebert was born in Ludwigshafen, in the then Bavarian region of Palatinate, in 1874. He studied law, and after this became a civil servant in the Kingdom of Bavaria. He served as a prosecutor in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, and later in Fürth.Siebert was mayor of Rothenburg ob der Tauber from 1908 to 1919. He afterwards, in 1919, became the mayor of Lindau and while serving in this position in 1931, joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party from the Bavarian People's Party.
He became Minister President of Bavaria in 1933 with the National Socialist German Workers' Party takeover of power in Germany. As Minister President, Siebert did not have the power and authority his predecessors had in the Weimar Republic. In this position, he was engaged in a power struggle with the Reichstatthalter of Bavaria, Franz Ritter von Epp, which he won.
In May 1933, Siebert arrived in P*au for the opening of the Ostmarkmuseum.
He also held the posts of Minister of Finances (1933–1942) and for Economy (1933-1934/1936-1942).
He initiated the so-called "Siebert Program" to fight unemployment in Bavaria. The program turned out to be insufficient to create new employment due to lack of funds within the Bavarian government and support from the German government.
Siebert also had personal orders from Hitler to look after the restoration of all castles in Germany and was especially interested in the restoration of the historical town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber from 1937 to 1941.
From 1933 until his death, he was chairman of the board of the Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- und Salzwerke AG (BHS), a large Bavarian mining company. He also served from 1939 to 1942 as the head of the Deutsche Akademie, a predecessor of the Goethe Ins*ut.
His brother was a highly decorated officer in the Wehrmacht, General der Infanterie Friedrich Siebert (1888–1950).
Honors
- Honorary citizen of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, alongside Adolf Hitler and Julius Streicher (revoked after the Second World War)
- Honorary citizen of Speyer and Augsburg, both revoked after the war.
See also
- List of Premiers of Bavaria
References
External links
- Picture of Ludwig Siebert in National Socialist German Workers' Party uniform, dated 12 March 1936 Bavarian State Library, Bildarchiv Hoffmann (Heinrich Hoffmann-Verlag)
- Bayrische Staats Bibliothek Datenbank der Reichstagsabgeordneten (in German)
- Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg – Boisls bayrische Biography – Ludwig Siebert (in German), page 726-727
- Newspaper clippings about Ludwig Siebert in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW