Adolf Braun (politician, 1862)

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Adolf Braun

Adolf Braun (born March 20, 1862 in Laag , Styria , † May 13, 1929 in Berlin ) was an Austro-German journalist and politician of the SPD .

Life

Adolf Braun was the son of the Jewish railway entrepreneur Ignaz Braun. His brother was the social democratic journalist Heinrich Braun , his sister Emma was married to the Austrian socialist leader Victor Adler .

After graduating from high school in Vienna in 1881, Braun studied economics and statistics in Freiburg im Breisgau and Basel from 1882 to 1885 . During his studies he joined the Academic Gymnastics Club . In 1886 he was in Freiburg Doctor of Philosophy PhD . Then he was initially an editor at the SPÖ newspaper Equality in Vienna, from 1890 he worked for the Saxon workers newspaper in Dresden . From 1893 onwards he was editor of Vorwärts in Berlin, but was expelled from Prussia in December 1898 because of his work . He moved to Nuremberg , where he became editor-in-chief of the Franconian daily mail , and he also worked as a Germany correspondent for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung . In 1918 he took on German citizenship .

Grave of Adolf Braun

Braun is buried in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in the memorial of the socialists . In Nuremberg- Muggenhof , Adolf-Braun-Strasse was named after him.

Party work

Braun participated in the founding of the Social Democratic Labor Party in 1887 . When he moved to Germany, he switched to the SPD. From 1920 to 1927 he was a member of the party executive committee, where he was primarily responsible for publishing and the party press. In 1921 he was a member of the program commission for the Görlitz program of the SPD. In the same year, together with Wilhelm Sollmann , he took over the editing of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Service , from which the Social Democratic Press Service emerged three years later .

Activity as a member of parliament

Braun was a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919/20 . He was then a member of the Reichstag until 1928 .

Publications

  • The labor protection laws of the European states. 1890.
  • Berlin housing conditions. Memorandum of the Berlin Workers' Sanitary Commission. Edited on behalf of the same by Adolf Braun. Publishing house of the expedition of the "Vorwärts" Berliner Volksblatt, Berlin 1893.
  • Newspaper foreign words and political catchphrases. Translated and explained by Dr. Brown. JHW Dietz successor, Berlin 1903 (8th probably edition 1929)
  • Goals and ways. Explanations of the current social democratic demands. Forward, Berlin 1906.
  • The collective agreements and the German trade unions. Stuttgart 1908.
  • The unions. Nature, structure, weapons and goals of the Austrian and German trade unions. Lecture dispositions. Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Ignaz Brand & Co., Vienna 1910
  • The unions, their development and struggles. Franconian Publishing House, Nuremberg 1914.
  • Equal rights for women! An advertising leaflet with contributions by Emmy Freundlich , Siegfried Nestriepke , Adelheid Popp . Edited by Adolf Braun. Frank. Publishing house & printing house, Nuremberg 1914
  • Petrels of the Revolution !. Files on the prehistory of the revolution. Bookstore Vorwärts Paul Singer, Berlin 1919.
  • Draft program of the Social Democratic Party. A comment. Dietz, Stuttgart 1921.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Kotowski: Braun, Adolf. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) , Volume 2. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, pp. 545 f.
  2. ^ Antje Sommer: From press service to press release. P. 381. Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, accessed on December 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German journalist and politician of the SPD
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Laag , Styria
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1929
Place of death Berlin