August Hagemeister

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August Hagemeister (born April 5, 1879 in Detmold ; † January 16, 1923 in Niederschönenfeld ) was a German politician ( SPD / USPD / KPD ). He was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament (1920–1923).

Life

Hagemeister, son of a master bricklayer , completed an apprenticeship as a printer , typesetter and lithographer . From 1911 he worked as a lithographer in Munich and became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Before the First World War, Hagemeister was a leading functionary of the branch of the lithographers and lithographers association in Munich.

In 1917 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). In November 1918 he was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Bavarian State Labor Council and from November 8, 1918 to January 12, 1919 a member of the Provisional National Council . During the First Soviet Republic, Hagemeister was a member of the Revolutionary Central Council and People's Representative for People's Welfare (April 7-13, 1919). He was one of the 13 abducted people in the Palm Sunday coup against the Soviet Republic of April 13, 1919. The coup failed due to the resistance of the Red Army under construction under the command of the communist sailor Rudolf Egelhofer , but Hagemeister remained in custody for the time being because the revolutionaries had no access to the places of detention. After the soviet republic was finally crushed by the Reichswehr and Freikorps units at the beginning of May, he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment by a district court on June 12, 1919 . In June 1920 he was elected to the Bavarian State Parliament for the USPD. In December 1920 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Hagemeister, however, spent the entire legislative period in the fortress prison in Niederschönenfeld in Swabia, where he died of a heart attack on January 16, 1923 due to the poor prison conditions. Until the end, Hagemeister had been treated as a simulant and his transfer to hospital was refused.

Hagemeister was one of Erich Mühsam's close friends . After Hagemeister's death, he wrote a poem in his honor.

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Individual evidence

  1. Klaus Schwabe (ed.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Volume 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Volume 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 306.
  2. People's representatives and commissioners elected by the Revolutionary Central Council .
  3. ^ Displaced persons from the Palm Sunday coup ; Article on muenchenwiki.de with a list of the 13 members of the Central Council and others arrested by the Republican Protection Force. a. Supporters of the Soviet Republic (accessed on March 20, 2017)
  4. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German constitutional history since 1789 . Volume 5: World War, Revolution and Reich renewal 1914–1919 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1975, p. 1127.
  5. ^ Kurt Kreiler: The writer's republic . On the relationship between literature and politics in the Munich Soviet Republic . Guhl, Berlin 1978, p. 172. - Chris Hirte: Erich Mühsam. A biography . Ahriman, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 978-3-89484-570-4 , p. 243. - The co-imprisoned writer Ernst Toller describes the circumstances of his death in "Letters from Prison" (Amsterdam: Querido 1935), pp. 185–191 , under January 1923.
  6. Text of the poem