Albert Genzen
Albert Genzen (born September 30, 1868 in Stralsund , † July 27, 1940 in Braunschweig ) was a German gardener , union official and politician ( SPD , USPD ).
Live and act
Genzen was born in 1868 as the son of a master tailor and attended elementary school in Ludwigslust , where he also trained as a gardener. In 1892 he joined the union of factory workers as well as the SPD and was elected to the head of the Stralsund local association that same year. From 1892 to 1908 he was chairman and shop steward of the SP constituency organization “Stralsund-Franzburg-Rügen”. In 1897 he was jailed for nine months in connection with his political activities .
From 1907 to 1909 Genzen was a full-time economist at the trade union building in Stralsund, then moved to Braunschweig. There he was from 1909 to 1925 chairman of the SPD and later of the USPD local executive committee and at the same time full-time "first representative of the factory workers' association ". Around 1914 he also became chairman of the Volksfreund's press commission , so that he was taken into military protective custody for several months during the First World War .
After the party's split in 1917, he joined the USPD, to whose right wing he belonged. Since 1919 he campaigned for reunification with the majority Social Democratic Party of Germany (MSPD), which finally came about in 1922. From 1918 to 1920 he was a member of the parliament and from 1922 to 1924 he was also vice-president of the Braunschweig state parliament .
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 205 .
- Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 121.
Web links
- Literature about Albert Genzen in the state bibliography MV
- Albert Genzen's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Ewe (ed.): History of the city of Stralsund. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1984, p. 283, DNB 840940254 .
- ↑ a b biography of Albert Genzen . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Genzen, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1940 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |