Heinrich Georg Dikreiter

Heinrich Georg Dikreiter (born July 3, 1865 in Eis near Strasbourg , Alsace , † January 14, 1947 in Überlingen , Baden ) was a German journalist , editor and SPD politician.

Life

Dikreiter came from a family that can be traced back to Immenstaad on Lake Constance in the 17th century and was the son of the lithographer Georg Dikreiter (1826- ??) from a liaison with the day laborer Salomé Hirzel († September 19, 1870). He had a younger sister Henriette (1866- ??).

Dikreiter came to German and French orphanages at the age of five and lived with different foster parents. After graduating from elementary school , he began an apprenticeship in lithography on July 18, 1880, but quit it and began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Überlingen on May 1, 1882 with "long working hours, short breaks, poor food" and went on a journey as a journeyman in the summer of 1885 through Germany. Then he made Nov. 6, 1886 his military service for three years to September 1889 in an artillery - regiment in Landau . Later he worked as a carpenter's journeyman and "went through a remarkable political and intellectual development as a factory worker [in Pirmasens ]" . A Social Democrat in Pirmasens introduced him to socialist ideas.

The young proletarian changed jobs every few weeks, married and moved with his wife to Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 1891 , where he found work in a wagon factory . From 1892 to 1905 he was a member of the SPD agitation commission. From 1896 he worked for the social democratic party newspaper Pfälzische Post in Ludwigshafen. Here he met Konrad Haenisch , with whom he remained lifelong friends. Later he was solely responsible for the Mannheim Volksstimme . He then changed from 1905 to June 1913 as an editor for the Altenburger Volkszeitung , a newspaper of the German labor movement in Altenburg ( Thuringia ). From 1909 to 1913 he was a city councilor in Altenburg and from April 14, 1910 to 1913, a member of the state parliament of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg . Most recently he was city treasurer from 1919 to 1930, both a paid city councilor ( executive ) and, at the same time, until 1923 (loss of mandate) first chairman of the city council ( legislature ) in Waldenburg ( Lower Silesia ) and editor of the Silesian Mountain Rescue Service .

Dikreiter left Waldenburg with his family in 1930 and moved to Veitshöchheim near Würzburg . Due to the National Socialist "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service", he was denied the retirement pension from his civil service on April 20, 1933, so that he only had his retirement pension from the Reichsversicherungsanstalt of 96.50 marks per month. At the end of the 1930s he moved with his wife and daughter Grete to his youth home in Überlingen, where he completed his memoirs.

Dikreiter wrote several books and writings and was also active as an editor . His best-known work was his autobiography Vom Waisenhaus zur Fabrik ( Vorwärts-Verlag , Berlin 1914). The book was banned during the Nazi era.

He was the father of the painter and art teacher Heiner Dikreiter and the publisher Otto Dikreiter . He had met his wife during military service.

Publications

From orphanage to factory. Story of a proletarian youth . Vorwärts-Verlag, Berlin 1914. (New edition: Edition Isele, Eggingen 1988, ISBN 3-925016-28-7 )
The Altenburg state parliament suffrage. A historical and agitational contribution to the struggle for the general equal secret and direct suffrage in the Duchy of Altenburg. On behalf of the State Executive of the Social Democratic Party in the Duchy of Altenburg. Stritzke, Altenburg 1906.
Social democracy and socialism in the light of bourgeois criticism. A collection of materials . Stritzke, Altenburg 1911.
as editor: The soldier against his will. A soldier's story from the time of the Austrian War of Succession in Italy between 1745–1750 . Priebatsch's bookstore, Breslau 1925.

literature

Heinrich Dikreiter. In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume 1. Deceased personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 65.
Oswald Burger: From orphan to city treasurer, A life in the labor movement. In: 130 Years of Social Democrats in Überlingen. The history 1878–2008. a detailed biography ( PDF file , p. 17, with a portrait drawing of his son Heiner Dikreiter )
Manual of the Workers Press Association. Volume 4, Berlin 1927.

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Georg Dikreiter in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Oswald Burger: From orphan to city treasurer, A life in the labor movement. biography
↑ Friedrich G. Kürbisch: We never lived like children. Reading book. Verlag Dietz, 1983, ISBN 3-8012-3004-X .
↑ Wolfgang Harböck: Stand, individual class. 2006, p. 164. (digitized version)
↑ Ursula Münchow: Workers' Movement and Literature 1860–1914. Contributions to the history of German socialist literature in the 20th century, Volume 7, Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic, Aufbau-Verlag, 1981, p. 615. (excerpt)
^ Matthias John (ed.): Selected letters from leading social democrats to Konrad Haenisch and his letters to third parties. Verlag Trafo, 2005, ISBN 3-89626-410-9 , p. 128. (excerpt)
↑ Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Verlag Droste, 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 411. (excerpt)
^ Georg Adler: Rosa Luxemburg, Collected Letters. Volume 4, Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED, Verlag Dietz, p. 368. (excerpt)
↑ Martin Schumacher: MdL, the end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. (= Publication of the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties). Verlag Droste, 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5189-0 .
↑ List of harmful and undesirable literature. As of December 31, 1938 . Leipzig 1938, p. 26.
↑ Review: Die Neue Zeit . Weekly of the German Social Democracy. 32.1913-1914, 2nd volume, issue 20 = 46, 1914, p. 904.

personal data
SURNAME	Dikreiter, Heinrich Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dikreiter, Heinrich; Dikreiter, Heinrich G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist, editor and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	July 3, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ice cream near Strasbourg , Alsace
DATE OF DEATH	January 14, 1947
Place of death	Ueberlingen , Baden

[1] Oswald Burger: From orphan to city treasurer, A life in the labor movement. biography

[2] Friedrich G. Kürbisch: We never lived like children. Reading book. Verlag Dietz, 1983, ISBN 3-8012-3004-X .

[3] Wolfgang Harböck: Stand, individual class. 2006, p. 164. (digitized version)

[4] Ursula Münchow: Workers' Movement and Literature 1860–1914. Contributions to the history of German socialist literature in the 20th century, Volume 7, Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic, Aufbau-Verlag, 1981, p. 615. (excerpt)

[5] Matthias John (ed.): Selected letters from leading social democrats to Konrad Haenisch and his letters to third parties. Verlag Trafo, 2005, ISBN 3-89626-410-9 , p. 128. (excerpt)

[6] Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Verlag Droste, 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 411. (excerpt)

[7] Georg Adler: Rosa Luxemburg, Collected Letters. Volume 4, Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED, Verlag Dietz, p. 368. (excerpt)

[8] Martin Schumacher: MdL, the end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. (= Publication of the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties). Verlag Droste, 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5189-0 .

[9] List of harmful and undesirable literature. As of December 31, 1938 . Leipzig 1938, p. 26.

[10] Review: Die Neue Zeit . Weekly of the German Social Democracy. 32.1913-1914, 2nd volume, issue 20 = 46, 1914, p. 904.