August Brey

August Brey (born August 1, 1864 in Gelnhausen ; † July 28, 1937 in Ronnenberg ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

After attending primary school in Gelnhausen, Brey, who was of Protestant faith, completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker in Frankfurt am Main from 1878 to 1881 . He then worked in this profession until 1892. He was fired several times because of his political commitment. In 1890 he took over the chairmanship of the Association of Factory, Agricultural and Auxiliary Workers in Germany and in 1892 became editor of the association newspaper Der Proletarian . In 1931 he resigned from the association's chairmanship for reasons of age.

After Brey is August Brey Street named in Gelnhausen.

Political party

Brey had been a member of the SPD since 1885. In 1906 he was elected chairman of the state organization for the province of Hanover .

MP

Brey belonged to the Reichstag of the Empire from 1906 to 1918 for the constituency of Hanover 8 ( Hanover-Linden ). In the 1906 by-election, when the Social Democratic MP Heinrich Meister had died, Brey was put up as a compromise candidate within the party after the party executive, which Karl Liebknecht wanted to enforce, and the local structure that Emil Rauch preferred, initially could not agree on a candidate. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . Then he was again a member of the Reichstag until July 1932 . Brey was also a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1919 .

Literature (selection)

Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 22 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
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, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 62–63.
German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 2, p. 128
Klaus Mlynek : Brey, August. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 72 and others; Preview over google books
Klaus Mlynek: Brey, August. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 83f .; online through google books

Web links

August Brey in the database of members of the Reichstag
August Brey biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1907. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition supplemented by an appendix. Addendum. The Reichstag election of 1907 (12th legislative period). Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1908, p. 33; for the Reichstag election in 1912 see Imperial Statistical Office (ed.): Die Reichstag elections of 1912. Issue 2, Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1913, p. 91 ( Statistics of the German Reich. Vol. 250)

personal data
SURNAME	Brey, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gelnhausen
DATE OF DEATH	July 28, 1937
Place of death	Ronnenberg

[1] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1907. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition supplemented by an appendix. Addendum. The Reichstag election of 1907 (12th legislative period). Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1908, p. 33; for the Reichstag election in 1912 see Imperial Statistical Office (ed.): Die Reichstag elections of 1912. Issue 2, Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1913, p. 91 ( Statistics of the German Reich. Vol. 250)