Eugen Bolz
| Eugen Bolz | |
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| 5th State President of Württemberg | |
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In office 1928–1933 |
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| Preceded by | Wilhelm Bazille |
| Succeeded by | Wilhelm Murr |
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| Born | 15 December 1881 Rottenburg am Neckar, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire |
| Died | 23 January 1945 (aged 63) Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Third Reich |
| Political party | Centre Party |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Hoeneß (m. 1920) |
| Children | 1 |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Eugen Anton Bolz (15 December 1881 – 23 January 1945) was a German politician and a member of the resistance to the Nazi régime.
Born in Rottenburg am Neckar, Eugen Bolz was his parents' twelfth child. His father, Joseph Bolz, was a salesman. His mother was Maria Theresia Bolz (née Huber). Three days later he was baptized on December 27, 1881 in the former Stiftskirche St. Moritz. He was married since 1920 with Maria Hoeness from Ulm, they had one daughter. Eugen Bolz was about the family of his wife the uncle of cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer (1911-2010).
Bolz took his abitur in 1900 at the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. He was involved in the Windthorstbund, the youth organization of the Centre Party (Germany).
From 1900 he studied law at the University of Tübingen and at the universities of Bonn (1901) and Berlin (1901/02). He became a member of the Catholic student associations AV Guestfalia Tübingen, the KDStV Bavaria Bonn and the KAV Suevia Berlin, all in the CV. At the KAV Suevia Berlin he met the centre politician Felix Porsch who caused him to become a politician after graduation. 1902 he continued his studies in Tübingen and graduated in 1905 from the first state examination. He then completed the traineeship in Rottenburg, Ravensburg and Stuttgart. After Bolz had passed second state examination in 1909, he worked as a laborer at the prosecution of Ulm. From 1911 to 1914 he worked as an assessor at the Stuttgart prosecution. During World War I he served as lieutenant in the Western Front in Alsace Not long after finishing his studies in Bonn and Berlin, he latched onto politics as a career and joined the Centre Party, which he represented in the Reichstag from 1912 to 1933, and from 1915 to 1933, also in the Württemberg Landtag. In Württemberg, he became Justice Minister in 1919 and Interior Minister in 1923.
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