Adolf Albrecht

Adolf Albrecht

Carl Leopold Adolf Albrecht (born July 14, 1855 in Reudnitz near Leipzig , † April 18, 1930 in Halle an der Saale ) was a social democratic politician.

Life

Adolf Albrecht was born the son of a master tailor and, after attending primary school, also trained as a tailor in Leipzig until 1874 . He then went on a hike and worked as a tailor's assistant until 1884. He then went into business for himself as a master tailor.

Albrecht had already joined one of the SPD's predecessor organizations and the tailors' union in 1874 and was chairman of the party in Flensburg between 1876 and 1877 . In the following years until 1888 he was a leading functionary of the SPD in Leipzig. In the spring of 1888 he was sentenced to ten months in prison for disseminating the Social Democrat . On November 21, 1888, he was expelled from Leipzig on the basis of the Socialist Act. Expelled from Dresden a year later . After expulsion, he moved to Halle an der Saale in 1889, where he ran a cigar shop. He was also a member of the city ​​council from 1895 to 1901, and city ​​council from 1919.

Albrecht was a member of the Reichstag for the first time from 1898 to 1903 . After a short break, he was again a member of the Reichstag from 1905 to 1918 . In 1917 Albrecht joined the USPD and in 1918 was chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Halle and in the Merseburg district . In this capacity he was a delegate of the first Reichsrätekongress in 1918 . His candidacy for the National Assembly failed, although Albrecht was again a member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1924 . In 1922 Albrecht switched back to the SPD. His grave is in Halle's southern cemetery .

literature

• Albrecht, Carl Leopold Adolf . In: Helga Berndt: Biographical sketches of Leipzig worker functionaries. Documentation on the 100th anniversary of the Socialist Law 1878–1890 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 81–82.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 4 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 345.

Web links

• Albrecht (Magdeburg), Adolf in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Karl Leopold Adolf Albrecht . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)