Hepp, Karl

Farmer, Member of Parliament

Born: 10.02.1889 in Seelbach (Oberlahn)

died: 03.01.1970 in Wiesbaden

Hepp studied law and agricultural sciences in Munich and Bonn, did military service from 1914-18 and took over his parents' farm in Seelbach in 1919. In 1918, he founded the district farmers' association for Nassau and the district of Wetzlar, which he headed until 1933.

In 1920-32, he sat in the Reichstag for the German People's Party. At the same time, Hepp served as president of the "Reichslandbund" from 1921-30, at times alongside Eberhard Graf von Kalckreuth (1881-1941), and as a member of the supervisory board of the "Bank für Landwirtschaft AG" and the "Allgemeine Deutsche Hagel-Versicherungsgesellschaft". He was President of the Chamber of Agriculture in Wiesbaden from 1928-33.

In 1933, he resigned from all public and professional offices due to political unpopularity and was temporarily taken into protective custody. He joined the NSDAP in 1937. Together with Adalbert Gimbel (1898-1973), a member of the Reichstag, he published a chronicle on the history of the NSDAP in Hesse-Nassau in 1941.

He managed the Adamstaler Hof estate from 1932-55 and was an honorary city councillor in Wiesbaden from 1952. From 1953-57, Hepp was a member of the Bundestag for the FDP and President of the Hessian Farmers' Association. He also acted as editor of the "Nassauische Bauernzeitung".