Adam Remmele

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Adam Remmele

Adam Remmele (born December 26, 1877 in Altneudorf (near Heidelberg ); † September 9, 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a politician ( SPD ), consumer cooperative , member of the Baden state parliament , member of the Reichstag , minister and state president in the state of Baden .

Life and work until 1918

Adam Remmele was the son of a miller and also learned the miller's trade. Together with his younger brother Hermann - who was a leader in the KPD after the First World War - he joined the SPD and the trade union in 1894. In 1900 he became chairman of the trade union cartel in Ludwigshafen and from 1903 head of the local employment office. Between 1906 and 1908 he was second chairman of the board of the mill workers' association . From 1902 Adam Remmele was also a functionary of the Association of Consumers. From 1908 to 1918 he was editor of the Social Democratic People's Voice in Mannheim . From 1911 he was also a member of the city council.

Worked from 1918 to 1933

MP

Remmele took an active part in the council movement in Baden in 1918/19 and became vice-president of the Baden National Assembly in 1919. Until 1927 he was a member of the Baden state parliament and from 1928 to 1933 Remmele sat in the Reichstag .

Government member

Since the same year he has also held various ministerial offices in the state government. From 1919 to 1929 he was Minister of the Interior, 1925/26 also Minister of Culture, from 1929 to 1931 he was also responsible for culture and justice. In 1922/23 and 1927/28 he was President of Baden and thus head of the Remmele I and Remmele II cabinets .

Consumer cooperative

In 1925 Remmele was elected to the committee of the Central Association of German Consumer Associations (Hamburg) and to the committee of the publishing company of German consumer cooperatives. In 1932 Remmele became a member of the executive board of the Central Association of German Consumers' Associations based in Hamburg .

time of the nationalsocialism

After the National Socialists came to power , Remmele was arrested on May 3, 1933. In Hamburg he was first taken to a police prison. From there he was taken to the Baden capital, Karlsruhe , to publicly humiliate him there. Together with other social-democratic state politicians, Remmele and Ludwig Marum were driven in an open police car through the city center past the state parliament and the state ministry on May 16, 1933 before his delivery to the Kislau concentration camp and exposed to the ridicule of National Socialist supporters. While many other Social Democrats were released relatively quickly, Remmele remained in the concentration camp until 1934.

After his release he lived as a self-employed businessman in Hamburg. In connection with the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested again for some time as part of the grating action .

post war period

Since 1945 Remmele has been committed to rebuilding the consumer cooperatives. He initially represented the consumer cooperatives in the Central Office for Economic Affairs in the British Zone and on its advisory board for cooperatives. On the consumer cooperative day on 26./27. In March 1947 he was elected full-time member of the board of directors of the Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives and the supervisory board of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Konsumgenossenschaften (GEG), Hamburg. On March 31, 1949, he retired. In 1948 and 1949 he represented the SPD in the Economic Council of the United Economic Area in Frankfurt am Main. In 1946 the University of Freiburg again awarded him the title of Dr. med. hc , which was revoked in 1935. In 1948 he became an honorary citizen of Karlsruhe. From 1949 until his death, Remmele lived in retirement in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Works and writings (selection)

  • The situation of the mill workers in Germany. According to statist. Surveys d. Mill Workers Association . Altenburg, 1906.
  • State upheaval and rebuilding in Baden. A contribution to the political history of Baden 1914/24 . Karlsruhe, 1925.
  • Proposals for the Reich and Land reform . Karlsruhe, 1929.
  • Baden from absolutism to the people's state . Karlsruhe, 1931.
  • The manger. An argument with the National Socialists . JHW Dietz, Berlin 1931.
  • The consumer cooperatives under construction . Bellwerk-Verlag, Offenbach, 1947.

literature

  • Adam Remmele . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 248.
  • Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Marburg 2000, p. 266f.
  • Walther G. Oschilewski : Will and Action. The way of the German consumer cooperative movement. Hamburg 1953.
  • Wilhelm Fischer : 60 years versus 60 years of service to consumers. 1894-1954. Festschrift Hamburg 1954.
  • Günter Wimmer: Adam Remmele. A life for social democracy. Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2009, ISBN 978-3-89735-585-9 ( review by Anton Maegerle on vorwaerts.de ).
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Hans-Georg Merz:  Remmele, Adam. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 418 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Remmele, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), member of the Member of Parliament, consumer cooperative
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Altneudorf (near Heidelberg )
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1951
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau