Adolf Thiele (politician, 1853)

Adolf Thiele

Adolf Friedrich Thiele (* 26. September 1853 in Dresden , † 25. January 1925 in Halle ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

After graduating from elementary school , Thiele attended grammar school for another year in 1867/68 , but left it before graduating from high school. From 1868 to 1874 he attended the teachers' seminar and then worked as a primary school teacher in Saxony until 1881 . He then taught at the agricultural district school in Wurzen . In 1887 he resigned from civil service and published the Wurzener Zeitung and Pedagogical Revue papers, which he had founded . From 1894 to 1908 he was editor of the Freie Volksblatt in Halle, and since 1897 he has also worked as a freelance writer. In 1918 he took over the editing of thePeople's voice in Halle. He was a co-founder and temporarily chairman of the Association of Workers' Press.

Political party

Thiele was a member of the SPD, whose local division for Halle he headed for many years.

MP

Thiele was a city councilor in Wurzen from 1888 to 1892 and in Halle from 1903 to 1912. From 1898 to 1907 and 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Liegnitz 8 ( Naumburg ). In 1905, in a debate in the Reichstag, he called for the SPD to abolish Section 175 of the Criminal Code , which made homosexual acts among men a criminal offense. In the election to the German National Assembly on January 19, 1919, he was elected to the Weimar National Assembly.

Web links

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Adolf Thiele in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Booklet 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 89 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250)

personal data
SURNAME	Thiele, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thiele, Friedrich Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1925
Place of death	Halle (Saale)

[1] Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Booklet 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 89 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250)