Alban Bretschneider

Alban Bretschneider (born August 19, 1868 in Rodewisch , † April 13, 1939 in Gera ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1918 he was a member of the Reuss Younger Line state parliament and then a member of the Thuringian state parliament .

After primary school, Bretschneider did an apprenticeship as a weaver and was a textile worker. He married in 1892. From the 1890s he was chairman of the branch of the textile workers' association in Gera and from 1899 to 1900 chairman of the union cartel. He was one of the founders of the SPD in Gera-Debschwitz and was a board member there until 1899. In 1905 he was first a reporter, then an editor of the "Reussische Tribüne" in Gera. From March 1905 until the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was Gauleiter of the Textile Workers' Association for Thuringia, based in Gera. In 1914 he was an assessor in the trade court.

1919–1920 was a member of the united state parliament of the People's State of Reuss, 1921–1923 a member of the Reuss regional representation and 1920–1924 of the Thuringian state parliament. In 1919 he ran for election in constituency 36 (Thuringian states of Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the two Black Burgundies, the two Reuss and the Reg.-Bez.Erfurt and the district of Schmalkalden) and in 1920 in constituency 13 (Thuringia) unsuccessful for the Reichstag.

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• Biography of Alban Bretschneider . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) (the exact data set must be found using the search function)