10 Facts About Rudolf Oeser

Rudolf Oeser was a German journalist and liberal politician.

Rudolf Oeser worked as a book trader but then studied philosophy and economics and became a journalist.

Rudolf Oeser was a member of the German People's Party and then the FVP.

In 1902, Rudolf Oeser was elected to the Landtag of Prussia for the constituency of Frankfurt am Main.

Rudolf Oeser was a member of the Reichstag from 1907 to 1911, arguing for tax breaks for retail traders, the public control of corporate cartels and syndicates and for changes to the Prussian election law.

Nevertheless, after the end of the putsch the railway workers' union asked for Rudolf Oeser's dismissal, claiming he had failed to oppose the putsch vigorously enough.

Rudolf Oeser remained in office and was in charge of transferring control over the railways to the Reich.

Rudolf Oeser then left the Prussian government in April 1921 and became Landeshauptmann of the Province of Saxony.

Rudolf Oeser supported the policy of passive resistance, despite the damaging effect it had on the German economy, thinking it might be used not just to end the Ruhrkampf but to achieve a revision of the much-despised Treaty of Versailles.

Rudolf Oeser defended this constellation in the Reichstag against attacks from the NSDAP and DNVP.