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Johann Viktor Bredt
Johann Viktor Bredt

Reich Minister of Justice
In office 30 March 1930 – 5 December 1930
Chancellor	Heinrich Brüning
Preceded by	Theodor von Guérard
Succeeded by	Curt Joël (acting)
Member of the Reichstag
In office 27 May 1924 – 4 June 1932
Constituency	National list (1924–1928) Düsseldorf-Ost (1928–1932)

Personal details
Born	2 March 1879 Barmen
Died	1 December 1940 (aged 61) Marburg
Nationality	German
Political party	Economic Party

Johann Viktor Bredt (2 March 1879 – 1 December 1940) was a German jurist and politician. He served as Minister of Justice of the Weimar Republic in 1930/1.

Biography

Bredt was born in Barmen on 2 March 1879 as the only son of Viktor Richard Bredt (1849–81), an industrialist, and his wife, Henriette née Koll.^[1]^[2]

He worked at the Barmer Bankverein in 1897/8 before studying jurisprudence and economics at Tübingen, Göttingen and Bonn. In 1901 he was awarded a doctorate (Dr. jur.) and in 1904 a Dr. phil.. In 1909 he became a professor at Marburg. Bredt worked in the civil service in 1903-09 and in 1910 was appointed to a professorship for jurisprudence at Marburg university.^[1]

Johann married twice: in 1902 Ada Bredt (divorced in 1912) at Barmen and in 1931 Olga Bredt (at Marburg).^[1]

Political career

In 1911–8, and again from 1921-4 Bredt was a member of the lower chamber of the Landtag of Prussia, first for the Free Conservative Party in the Kingdom of Prussia, then in the Free State of Prussia. From 1924 to 1932, he was the parliamentary leader of the Reich Party of the German Middle Class (which he had co-founded) in the Reichstag. He also held various honorary and political positions on a local (Marburg) and regional (Hesse-Nassau) level.^[1]

In 1926, Bredt was an expert witness for the parliamentary committee on the causes of the German collapse in 1918. In 1930/1, he served as Minister of Justice in the first cabinet of Heinrich Brüning. Bredt also played a key role in the German reformed church. In 1925, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology Dr. theol. h. c. by the University of Bonn.^[1]

Bredt died 1 December 1940 in Marburg.^[1]

Works

Die Trennung von Kirche und Staat, 1919
Die Rechte des Summus Episcopus, 1919
Neues evangelisches Kirchenrecht für Preußen, 3 volumes, 1921–27
Der Geist der deutschen Reichsverfassung, 1924
Der deutsche Reichstag im Weltkrieg, 1926
Die belgische Neutralität und der Schlieffensche Feldzugsplan, 1929
Geschichte der Familie Bredt, 1937
Haus Bredt-Rübel, 1937
Die Verfassung der reformierten Kirche in Cleve-Jülich-Berg-Mark, 1938.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Biografie Johann Viktor Bredt (German)". Bayerische Nationalbibliothek. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
^ "Johann Viktor Bredt (1879-1940), Minister". rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de. Retrieved 28 February 2013.

External links

Newspaper clippings about Johann Viktor Bredt in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Secretaries and Ministers of Justice of Germany

German Reich
(1871–1945)

Secretaries:	Heinrich Friedberg Hermann von Schelling [de] Otto von Oehlschläger Robert Bosse [de] Eduard Hanauer [de] Rudolf Arnold Nieberding Hermann Lisco Paul von Krause
Ministers:	Otto Landsberg Eugen Schiffer Andreas Blunck Eugen Schiffer Gustav Radbruch Rudolf Heinze Gustav Radbruch Erich Emminger Curt Joël Josef Frenken Hans Luther Wilhelm Marx Johannes Bell Oskar Hergt Erich Koch-Weser Theodor von Guérard Johann Viktor Bredt Curt Joël Franz Gürtner Franz Schlegelberger Otto Georg Thierack

German Democratic Republic
(1949–1990)

Federal Republic of Germany
(1949–)

v t e First Brüning cabinet – 30 March 1930 to 10 October 1931
Heinrich Brüning (Chancellor, Zentrum) Hermann Dietrich (Deputy, DDP) Julius Curtius (DVP) Joseph Wirth (Zentrum) Johann Viktor Bredt (WP) Curt Joël (-) Adam Stegerwald (Zentrum) Wilhelm Groener (-) Ernst Trendelenburg [de] (DDP) Paul Moldenhauer (DVP) Martin Schiele (DNVP) Theodor von Guérard (Zentrum) Georg Schätzel (BVP) Gottfried Treviranus (KVP)

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