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| name = Johann Viktor Bredt
| image = Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10783, Johann-Voktor Bredt.jpg
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| birth_date = March 2, March 1879▼
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| birth_place = [[Barmen]]▼
▲| birth_date = March 2, 1879
| death_date = 1 December 12, 1940 (aged 61)▼
▲| birth_place = [[Barmen]]
| death_place = [[Marburg]]▼
▲| death_date = December 12, 1940
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| predecessor = [[Theodor von Guérard]]▼
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| party = Reich Party of the German Mittelstand
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| order1 = [[Federal Ministry of Justice (Germany)|Reich Minister of Justice]]
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| term_start2 = 27 May 1924
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'''Johann Viktor Bredt''' (March 2, March 1879 – 1 December 12, 1940) was a [[German]] jurist and politician. He served as Minister of Justice of the [[Weimar eraRepublic]] justicein minister1930/1.
 
==Biography==
Bredt was born in [[Barmen]] on 2 March 1879 as the only son of Viktor Richard Bredt (1849–81), an industrialist, and his wife, Henriette née Koll.<ref name=Bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz5713.html#ndbcontent|title=Biografie Johann Viktor Bredt (German)|publisher=Bayerische Nationalbibliothek|accessdate=12 December 2017}}</ref><ref name=bredt>{{cite web|title=Johann Viktor Bredt (1879-1940), Minister|url=http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/persoenlichkeiten/B/Seiten/JohannViktorBredt.aspx|publisher=rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de|accessdate=28 February 2013}}</ref>
Bredt was born in [[Barmen]]. He rose to be Justice minister in 1930 succeeding [[Theodor von Guérard]].
 
He worked at the ''Barmer Bankverein'' in 1897/8 before studying jurisprudence and economics at Tübingen, Göttingen and Bonn. In 1901 he was awarded a doctorate (Dr. jur.) and in 1904 a Dr. phil.. In 1909 he [[habilitation|became a professor]] at Marburg. Bredt worked in the civil service in 1903-09 and in 1910 was appointed to a professorship for jurisprudence at Marburg university.<ref name="Bio"/>
Bredt died in [[Marburg]].▼
 
Johann married twice: in 1902 Ada Bredt (divorced in 1912) at Barmen and in 1931 Olga Bredt (at Marburg).<ref name="Bio"/>
 
==Political career==
In 1911–8, and again from 1921-4 Bredt was a member of the lower chamber of the [[Landtag of Prussia]], first for the [[Free Conservative Party]] in the [[Kingdom of Prussia]], then in the [[Free State of Prussia]]. From 1924 to 1932, he was the parliamentary leader of the [[Reich Party of the German Middle Class]] (which he had co-founded) in the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]]. He also held various honorary and political positions on a local (Marburg) and regional (Hesse-Nassau) level.<ref name="Bio"/>
 
In 1926, Bredt was an expert witness for the parliamentary committee on the causes of the German collapse in 1918. In 1930/1, he served as Minister of Justice in the [[First Brüning cabinet|first cabinet]] of [[Heinrich Brüning]]. Bredt also played a key role in the German [[Continental Reformed church|reformed church]]. In 1925, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology ''Dr. theol. h. c.'' by the [[University of Bonn]].<ref name="Bio"/>
 
▲Bredt died 1 December 1940 in [[Marburg]].<ref name="Bio"/>
 
==Works==
* ''Die Trennung von Kirche und Staat'', 1919
* ''Die Rechte des Summus Episcopus'', 1919
* ''Neues evangelisches Kirchenrecht für Preußen'', 3 volumes, 1921–27
* ''Der Geist der deutschen Reichsverfassung'', 1924
* ''Der deutsche Reichstag im Weltkrieg'', 1926
* ''Die belgische Neutralität und der Schlieffensche Feldzugsplan'', 1929
* ''Geschichte der Familie Bredt'', 1937
* ''Haus Bredt-Rübel'', 1937
* ''Die Verfassung der reformierten Kirche in Cleve-Jülich-Berg-Mark'', 1938.
 
==References==
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==External links==
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|NAME=Bredt, Johann Viktor
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|SHORT DESCRIPTION=Weimar era justice minister
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|DATE OF BIRTH=March 2, 1879
|PLACE OF BIRTH=[[Barmen]]
|DATE OF DEATH=December 12, 1940
|PLACE OF DEATH=[[Marburg]]
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