Schlitt, Karl Joseph

Lawyer, politician

Born: 04.06.1886 in Obertiefenbach

died: 30.10.1960 in Wiesbaden

Schlitt studied law in Bonn, Heidelberg and Marburg. Until the outbreak of the First World War, he was a court clerk and then a court assessor in Wiesbaden. He was seriously wounded in the First World War.

In 1918, he became provisional district administrator of the Wiesbaden district, and from 1920 officially, until it was dissolved in 1928. During the French occupation, the occupying authorities expelled him from Wiesbaden in 1923/24. He then worked as a consultant at the district government in Wiesbaden. After 1933, he was dismissed for political reasons and worked as a businessman from 1934-45. From 1945, he was co-owner and managing director of the Kola-Dallmann chemical-pharmaceutical factory in Schierstein.

Schlitt was one of the co-founders of the CDU in Hesse and was its state treasurer. From 1946-48, he was initially a city councillor and shortly afterwards became head of the city council in Wiesbaden. He then served as an honorary city councillor until 1960. From July 1946 to November 1946, he was a member of the constitutional advisory state assembly of "Greater Hesse". In 1949/50, he was a member of the Hessian state parliament in the first electoral term.

He is considered to be the initiator of the local history book "Der ehemalige Landkreis Wiesbaden", published in 1930. A street in Wiesbaden is named after him.