Albert Powder

Albert Pulvers (born March 12, 1868 , † October 8, 1933 in Ilmenau ) was a German SPD politician .

Life

The white tanner Albert Pulvers moved to Ilmenau in 1892, where he met his wife in 1893, with whom he later had 16 children.

In 1898 he joined the local association of the SPD, which had been founded shortly before with the participation of Paul Löbe . He was then dismissed by his employer and initially worked as a milk dealer before he founded the restaurant "Zur Weintraube" (Rottenbachstrasse / corner of Unterpörlitzer Strasse) in 1911. In 1908, Pulvers was elected to the Ilmenau city council for the SPD. In 1910 he became chairman of the city council. In the following political crises of the First World War , the November Revolution and the hyperinflation of 1923 , he tried to mediate between the bourgeois and radical left camps and thus avoid unrest in the city. He was a member of the workers' council , in which he advocated cooperation with the mayor Hermann Zachäus. Powder was also involved in the social field, e.g. B. at the Ilmenau housing cooperative founded in 1900 .

In 1933, the City Council was NSDAP " brought into line ", which powder after 25 years retired from him. A little later he died. His grave is in the Ilmenau cemetery

In 1946, Wörthstraße (the first street in which the housing association built houses in 1900) was renamed Albert-Pulvers-Straße.

literature

• Official Gazette of the City of Ilmenau of March 7, 2008: Albert Pulvers - a life for the benefit of the City of Ilmenau . No. 02/08, p. 12.