Arthur Stadthagen

Arthur Stadthagen, ca.1907

Arthur Stadthagen (born May 23, 1857 in Berlin ; † December 5, 1917 there ) was a German social democratic politician and writer.

Life

Stadthagen was born as the son of the orientalist and language teacher David Stadthagen and his wife Bertha, b. Rieß, born into a Jewish family. He attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Berlin from 1865 to 1876 . In 1876/77, Stadthagen did his one-year military service. From 1876 to 1879 he studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin jurisprudence . From 1879 to 1884 he worked as a trainee lawyer , in 1884 he became an assessor .

From May 1884 to lawyer at the Berlin Regional Court II, Stadthagen was excluded from the bar in November 1892 because of a public criticism of his professional colleagues. Since then he has appeared professionally as a writer and legal advisor. In 1884 or 1887 Arthur Stadthagen joined the Social Democrats . In 1889 he was elected Berlin city councilor and remained so until his death. In February 1890 he won the Reichstag mandate for the constituency of Potsdam 6 Niederbarnim in the runoff election . He successfully defended it until his death. His successor was Rudolf Wissell ( MSPD ). Until 1897, Stadthagen was the only lawyer in the SPD parliamentary group . He was considered an expert in labor and social law and spoke regularly for the SPD on the budget of the administration of justice. When he gave a lecture on the SPD's agricultural program on August 3, 1895 in Niederbarnim, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was among the audience.

Stadthagen was involved in the drafting of the German Civil Code (BGB) together with Karl Frohme in 1896 and advocated equal rights for men and women in marriage as well as collective labor law, but both were resolutely rejected by the bourgeois parties.

After being expelled from the bar, Stadthagen had worked as a journalist for Vorwärts since 1893 . From September 1905 to October 1916 he worked there as an editor. In 1916, all the editors of “Vorwärts” who opposed the positive attitude of the Reichstag faction to the First World War were dismissed from the editorial office, including Stadthagen.

Arthur Stadthagen, who was assigned to the “centrists”, ie the “Marxist center” of the SPD around August Bebel and Karl Kautsky , had been voting openly in the Reichstag since December 1915 against the war credits of the Reich government. In March 1916 he and 17 other war opponents were excluded from the Reichstag parliamentary group and together with Hugo Haase and others founded the “ Social Democratic Working Group ”, from which the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) emerged in Gotha in April 1917 .

Stadthagen has been teaching labor law and legal issues at the SPD party school in Berlin since 1906 . He took part in all important party congresses and numerous international conferences of the social democracy. He had a personal friendship and lively correspondence with Rosa Luxemburg .

On May 13, 1910, he resigned from Judaism.

A lifelong chronic lung disease, Arthur Stadthagen died on December 5, 1917 as a result of kidney and peritonitis. He was buried in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery.

Honors

Arthur-Stadthagen-Straße in Bernau near Berlin is named after him.

Works

• The labor law. Rights and obligations of the worker in Germany from the commercial employment contract for accident, health, disability and old-age insurance. With examples and forms for lawsuits, applications, complaints, appeals, etc. Baake, Berlin 1895 (4th edition JHWDietz, Stuttgart 1904. Digitized )
• The "prison bill" . The new time . Weekly of the German Social Democracy . 17th vol. (1898-99), 2nd volume (1899), issue 39, pp. 388-398. Digitized
• Characteristics of the inst people , Die Neue Zeit. Weekly of the German Social Democracy . 17th vol. (1898-99), 2nd volume (1899), issue 51, pp. 787-790. Digitized
• The new Accident Insurance Act (Commercial, Construction, Maritime Accident Insurance Act and Accident Insurance Act for Agriculture and Forestry). The amendment to the trade regulations of June 30, 1900. The amendment to the health insurance law of June 30, 1900. With examples and forms for applications, lawsuits, complaints, appeals, etc. Explains . JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1900.
• Exceptional rights against rural workers in Germany. In: The New Time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy. Volume 18 (1899-1900), Volume 1 (1900), Issue 13, pp. 388-398. Digitized
• Guide to the Civil Code. Commonly understandable presentation of the legal relationships that are essential for the working population. With examples and forms . JHWDietz Nachf., Stuttgart 1900 (4th expanded and linked edition, JHWDietz Nachf., Stuttgart 1904)
• The first party congress of the Social Democrats in Prussia. In: The New Time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy. Volume 23 (1904-1905), Volume 1 (1905), Issue 15, pp. 481-491. Digitized
• Review: The Reich Law on Merchant Courts of July 6, 1904, along with two appendices. Explains v. M. v. Schulz. Jena 1905, published by Gustav Fischer. In: The New Time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy. 23rd vol. (1904-1905), 2nd volume (1905), issue 35, pp. 294-295. Digitized
• The party conference in Jena. In: The New Time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy. Vol. 23 (1904-1905), Volume 2 (1905), Issue 43, pp. 521-528. Digitized
• Party papacy and class justice in social democracy. A record-based description of the conflict between the Pankow electoral association and the Niederbarnimer district executive committee or the Reichstag deputy Stadthagen . Röber, Berlin-Pankow 1909.
• The amendment to the trade regulations of December 1908 . JHWDietz Nachf., Stuttgart 1909.
• Party papacy and class justice in social democracy. A record-based description of the conflict between the Pankower electoral association and the Niederbarnimer district board, respectively. the member of the Reichstag . Gustav Röber, Pankow 1909.
• Against coalition law and worker protection. In: The New Time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy. Volume 31 (1912-1913), Volume 1 (1913), Issue 17, pp. 585-590. Digitized
• Law on Assistance to Families of War participants . Brühl, Berlin 1914.
• Reprint with the wording of the report on a joint meeting of the governing bodies of the SPD on the outbreak of war in August 1914 . (Berlin) August 1914.
• Under the state of siege. Stenographic official report on the speeches of the MPs Stadthagen and Ledebour along with some other speeches in the Reichstag on March 20, 1915 . Kraus, Nendeln 1976 (reprint of the Berlin 1915 edition)
• Law on the patriotic auxiliary service . Printed as a manuscript (Berlin 1917) digitized
• Selected speeches and writings 1890–1917. Edited by Holger Czitrich-Stahl. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2015, ISBN 3-631-65416-2 .

literature

• Richard Freund : Arthur Stadthagen, Labor Law. Rights and obligations of workers in Germany from the commercial employment contract, accident, health, disability and old age insurance. In: Archives for Public Law . Freiburg i. B., Mohr 1897, pp. 291-292. Digitized
• Hugo Haase : Arthur Stadthagen, Labor Law. Fourth revised and increased edition. Stuttgart 1904, published by JHW Dietz Nachf. (GmbH). In: The New Time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy. Volume 23 (1904-1905), Volume 1 (1905), Issue 24, pp. 794-797. Digitized
• Ursula Herrmann: From the life of a workers' association 1891–1901. The Social Democratic Workers' Association of Lichtenberg-Friedrichsberg in minutes and reports. Fides, Berlin 2011.
• Arthur Stadthagen. In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume 1: Deceased Personalities. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH, Hanover 1960, pp. 296-297.
• Stadthagen, Arthur. In: Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch . Lexicon of politics, press and journalism . Continued by Eugen Kuri. Second volume. A. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 1120.
• Gerhard Pardemann: On the history of the labor movement in the Reichstag constituency Niederbarnim (1871-1910) with special consideration of the activities of the Reichstag member Arthur Stadthagen . Potsdam, 1970.
• K. Stenkewitz: Stadthagen, Arthur. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 439-440.
• Dieter Fricke : The German Labor Movement, 1869-1914. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 191976, pp. 237 f., 419, 500, 558 f., 561-563, 576-578, 750.
• Eugen Prager : The order of the day. History of the USPD. 1922. (Reprint: Bonn 1980, ISBN 3-8012-0049-3 )
• Rosa Luxemburg : Letters to Friends. Based on the manuscript completed by Luise Kautsky, edited by Benedikt Kautsky . European Publishing House, Hamburg 1950
• Thea Koberstein, Norbert Stein: Jews in Lichtenberg with the former districts in Friedrichshain, Hellersdorf and Marzahn. Ed. Hentrich, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89468-191-8 .
• Holger Czitrich-Stahl: Arthur Stadthagen - the first social democratic lawyer in the German Reichstag. In: Year Book for Research on the History of the Labor Movement, Volume III / 2009, pp. 69ff.
• Holger Czitrich-Stahl: “Equal law for all!” German social democracy and the emergence of the civil code of 1896. In: Arbeit - Bewegungs - Geschichte , Issue II / 2016.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 156 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Holger Czitrich-Stahl: Arthur Stadthagen - lawyer for the poor and law teacher for the labor movement. Biographical approaches to an almost forgotten social democratic lawyer. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61636-9 . Extended version as dissertation, 2014: digitized version .
• Holger Czitrich-Stahl: Arthur Stadthagen. Parliamentarians - Social Democrats - Pioneers of labor law. Hentrich and Hentrich, Jüdische Miniatures, Volume 220, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95565-258-6 .

Web links

• Arthur Stadthagen in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 157-161.
2. ↑ Holger Czitrich-Stahl: “Equal Rights for All!” German Social Democracy and the emergence of the Civil Code in 1896. In: Work - Movement - History , Issue II / 2016.
3. ^ Bulletin of the social democratic electoral associations for Berlin and the surrounding area
4. ↑ Letters to Hans Diefenbach, Adolf Geck , Konrad Haenisch , Camille Huysmans , Marta Rosenbaum, Arthur Stadthagen, Emanuel and Mathilde Wurm , Gertrud Zlottko.