Adolf Geck

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Adolf Geck
Social democratic embroidery, around 1900 ( Museum in the Ritterhaus ).

Ernst Adolf Geck (born February 9, 1854 in Offenburg ; † April 13, 1942 there ) was the first Social Democrat in the Presidium of the Second Baden Chamber and a member of the Reichstag .

Life

Dude, son of an innkeeper. He attended high school in Offenburg (Abitur 1872), studied civil engineering at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe (1872–1876). There he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity in 1874 . In 1879 he became party secretary of the German People's Party in Frankfurt am Main, but soon turned to social democracy .

In 1881 he took over a printing company, the associated publishing house and the editorial staff and published the newspaper Der Volksfreund in Offenburg , which was later repeatedly banned under the Socialist Act. As an editor, Geck received a year and a half in prison and heavy fines. Since 1899 he published the local newspaper D'r alt Offeburger . In the fight against the Socialist Law, Geck acted as a shop steward in the distribution of the illegal social democrat .

In 1890 Geck was part of the leadership of the social democratic state organization in Middle Franconia. From 1897 to 1903 and 1905 to 1918 he was a member of the Baden state parliament, from 1898 to 1912 and 1920 to 1924 of the Reichstag . Geck was the first social democrat to be elected to the presidium of the second chamber of the state parliament in 1905/06. In 1917 he joined the USPD .

In 1892 he married Marie, b. Mohsmann, widowed Dr. Schretzmann (born June 26, 1865; † August 13, 1927), who, like her husband, was active in social democracy and was a member of the Offenburg poor council from 1903 to 1926; 1923–1927 member of the district council. On the one hand, the sons Brandel and Tell Geck , on the other hand the daughters Erika, married Heymann, Freya Fram and Rothraud Amanda (* August 5, 1898, † April 24, 1983) emerged from the marriage. Of all the siblings, their path in life was most directly based on the parental model. In 1920 she graduated from the social women's school in Mannheim and from 1921 worked as a welfare sister in Berlin. On March 24, 1923, she married Eduard Weckerle (* July 9, 1890, † February 19, 1956), journalist and editor at the Arbeiterzeitung in Mannheim. Like her parents, Rothraud Weckerle also held various offices in the Baden social democracy. She was the bearer of the citizen medal of the city of Offenburg.

Adolf Geck's nephew Oskar Geck belonged to the same extended family in Offenburg, and he followed in his uncle's footsteps at an early age.

Adolf Geck and his wife were politically and personally very close to August Bebel and his family. On his 70th birthday in 1910, Geck and his wife took part in the preparations for the festival in Bebel's honor. He had also been in close correspondence with Rosa Luxemburg since 1900.

The Adolf-Geck-Straße in Offenburg was named after him.

His estate is in the General State Archives in Karlsruhe .

Works

  • Emanuel Wurm : On the history of German factory legislation. The first socio-political attempt in a German parliament. Speech by Franz Josef Ritter von Buß , member of the Baden state parliament, in 1837. With a foreword by A. Bebel , a biographical foreword by Ad. Dude . Adolf Geck, Offenburg 1905. Review online
  • Dr. Heinrich Feuerstein, wages and household of the watch factory workers in the Baden Black Forest. A socio-economic study. Fourth addition to the seventh volume "Economics of the Baden Universities". Karlsruhe 1905, published by G. Braunschen Hofbuchhandlung . In: The New Time . Weekly of the German Social Democracy . 23.1904-1905, 1st volume. (1905), No. 13, pp. 430-431. Digitized
  • From old graves . In: Workers' Youth . 1911, pp. 260-261. Digitized
  • Ignaz Auer : After ten years. Material and glosses on the history of the Socialist Law , preface by Adolf Geck. Franconian Publishing House, Nuremberg 1913.

literature

  • E. Herbig, Q. Oehme: Geck, Ernst-Adolf . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 148-149.
  • Erwin Dittler: Adolf Geck, 1854-1942. From the “Red Field Post” to the workers' council. In: The Ortenau. Publications of the Historical Association for Central Baden . 1982, pp. 212-301.
  • Georg Kirschner: Directory of members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia . 1966.
  • Jörg Schadt :  Adolf Geck. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 123 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • 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 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 108-109.
  • Inventory of the estate of Adolf Geck in the General State Archive Karlsruhe, edited. by Günther Haselier. Kohlhammer. Stuttgart 1975.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Geck to Julius Motteler July 3, 1884. Quoted in: Ernst Engelberg : Revolutionary Politics and Red Field Post 1878–1890. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 196 f. (Engelberg dedicated the book: “To the memory of my fatherly friends Joseph Belli and Adolf Geck”.)
  2. ↑ Erwin Dittler, Adolf and Marie Geck 1910/1 , Kehl / Goldscheuer: Eigenverlag, 1994, cover page .
  3. ↑ Erwin Dittler, Rothraud Weckerle-Geck 1968/82 , Kehl / Goldscheuer: Eigenverlag, 1994, p. 24.
  4. ^ Erwin Dittler, Rothraud Weckerle-Geck 1945/1 , Kehl / Goldscheuer: Eigenverlag, 1995, cover page .
  5. ^ Erwin Dittler: Adolf and Marie Geck 1910/1 , Kehl / Goldscheuer: Eigenverlag, 1994, p. 13.
  6. ^ Rosa Luxemburg. Collected letters . 6 volumes. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982-1993.
  7. ↑ Historically significant people, events and buildings in Offenburg
personal data
SURNAME Dude, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geck, Ernst Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, USPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1942
Place of death Offenburg