Wilhelm Bünger

Wilhelm Bünger
Wilhelm Bünger
Minister-President of Saxony
	In office; 26 June 1929 – 18 February 1930
Preceded by	Max Heldt
Succeeded by	Walther Schieck
Personal details
Born	8 October 1870; Elsterwerda, North German Confederation
Died	21 March 1937 (aged 66); Leipzig, Nazi Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	DVP

Wilhelm Rudolf Ferdinand Bünger (1870–1937) was a German politician and attorney who served as the Minister-President of Saxony from 1929 to 1930.

Biography

Bünger was born on 8 October 1870 in Elsterwerda, Prussia, North German Confederation (present-day Brandenburg, Germany)^{[citation needed]}. He was a member of the German People's Party (DVP) from 1920 to 1930 while a member of the German Bundestag. From 1924 to 1927, Bünger was Minister of Justice, 1928 Minister of Education, and from 26 June 1929 to 18 February 1930, Minister-President of Saxony.^[1] He was married to Doris Hertwig-Bünger, also a state representative in Parliament, and lived with her in the Landhaus Carp Schampel, in the Saxon town of Radebeul. He died on 21 March 1937 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.^{[citation needed]}

Bünger was the presiding judge at the Reichstag fire trial.^[2] He acquitted the accused with the exception of Marinus van der Lubbe. However, he found that the "Reichstag fire was no act of individual terror but an act of mass terror which was designed to be the overture to a general strike and a revolutionary movement," placing the blame on a Communist conspiracy.^[3]

References

^ Pohl, Karl Heinrich (2019-05-14). Gustav Stresemann: The Crossover Artist. Berghahn Books. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-78920-218-2.
^ Snyder, Louis Leo (1998). Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Robert Hale. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-7090-6211-0.
^ TIME (1934-01-01). "Death To A Dutchman". TIME. Retrieved 2024-05-27.

[1] Pohl, Karl Heinrich (2019-05-14). Gustav Stresemann: The Crossover Artist. Berghahn Books. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-78920-218-2.

[2] Snyder, Louis Leo (1998). Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Robert Hale. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-7090-6211-0.

[3] TIME (1934-01-01). "Death To A Dutchman". TIME. Retrieved 2024-05-27.

[1]

[2]

[3]

v t e Minister-presidents of Saxony
Kingdom of Saxony (1806–1918)	office established 1831 Bernhard von Lindenau Julius Traugott von Könneritz Karl Braun Gustav Friedrich Held Ferdinand Zschinsky Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust Freiherr von Falkenstein Freiherr von Friesen Graf von Fabrice Karl von Gerber Julius Hans von Tümmel Heinrich Rudolf Schurig Karl von Metzsch-Reichenbach Konrad Wilhelm Rüger Victor Alexander von Otto Freiherr von Hausen Heinrich Gustav Beck Rudolf Heinze
Revolutionary period (1918–19)	Richard Lipinski Georg Gradnauer
Weimar period (1919–33)	Georg Gradnauer Wilhelm Buck Erich Zeigner Rudolf Heinze Alfred Fellisch Max Heldt Wilhelm Bünger Walther Schieck
Nazi period (1933–45)	Freiherr von Killinger Martin Mutschmann
Soviet administration / DDR (1945–90)	Rudolf Friedrichs Max Seydewitz state abolished 1952–90
Federal Republic of Germany (since 1990)	Kurt Biedenkopf Georg Milbradt Stanislaw Tillich Michael Kretschmer

Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	Germany
People	Deutsche Biographie