Adolf Gottwald

Adolf Gottwald (born December 7, 1872 in Landeck ; † January 22, 1931 ) was a German teacher and politician ( center ).

Life

After graduating from primary school, Gottwald attended the preparatory institute in Landeck from 1888 to 1890 and then completed the teachers' seminar in Habelschwerdt by 1893 . He worked as a teacher in Krelkau from 1893 to 1898 , then switched to the same position at a Berlin community school and became rector there in 1910. Gottwald has been involved in teachers' associations since 1899. He had been a board member of the Association of Catholic Teachers in Berlin since 1900 and in 1904 became a member of the executive committee of the Catholic Teachers' Association of Prussia, which he later took over. In 1909 he also became a board member of the Catholic teachers' association at the national level. From 1925 he worked as a government and school councilor at the provincial school council in Berlin.

Gottwald was a member of the Prussian state constituent assembly from 1919 to 1921 and was then elected to the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until his resignation on August 18, 1930. In parliament he represented constituency 8 (Liegnitz).

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. P. 522.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928. P. 512.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ August Hermann Leugers-Scherzberg: Gottwald, Adolf. In: The Center Group in the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly 1919–1921. Meeting minutes. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5179-3 . P. 299.