Heinrich Held was a German Catholic politician and Minister President of Bavaria.
19 Facts About Heinrich Held
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Heinrich Held was forced out of office by the Nazi takeover in Germany in 1933.
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Heinrich Held was born in Erbach in the Taunus, then a part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.
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Heinrich Held's father, Johannes Held, was a local farmer and musician, his mother was Susanne Held nee Kaiser.
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Heinrich Held moved to Heidelberg the year after and became editor of the Regensburger Morgenblatts, a newspaper in the Bavarian city of Regensburg, in 1899.
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Heinrich Held moved to take up the same position at the Regensburger Anzeiger the year after.
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From 1921, Heinrich Held served as the president of the Deutscher Katholikentag, a regular gathering and discussion forum for Roman Catholics throughout Germany.
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Heinrich Held was elected to the Bavarian parliament in 1907, standing for the Bavarian branch of the Centre Party, and he held his seat there until 1933.
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Heinrich Held belonged to the left wing of his party and was mainly interested in fiscal politics.
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Heinrich Held quickly rose to power within the party, becoming his party's leader in the parliament in 1914 and leader of the party itself shortly afterwards.
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In 1917, Heinrich Held was elevated to the title of Geheimer Hofrat, a member of the Bavarian Privy council.
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In 1918, after the end of the monarchy in Bavaria, Heinrich Held was one of the co-founders of the Bavarian People's Party, transforming the Centre's Bavarian branch into a new party which emphasized conservative elements and states' rights.
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In July 1924, after the resignation of Eugen Ritter von Knilling, Heinrich Held became prime minister of Bavaria.
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Heinrich Held's government was supported by his own party, the national-conservative German National People's Party, the national-liberal German People's Party and the Bauernbund.
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Heinrich Held ran in the first round of the 1925 German presidential elections and achieved 3.7 percent of the votes.
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In 1930, Heinrich Held's government lost its majority in the Bavarian parliament but continued in office as a minority administration.
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From 1930 to 1932, Heinrich Held held the offices of Minister of State for Commerce, Industry and Trade and Minister of State for Agriculture.
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Heinrich Held continued to advocate states rights within the German republic, publishing papers on the subject.
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Heinrich Held retired from politics, first escaping to Lugano, Switzerland, where his son Josef lived, later withdrawing to Regensburg.