August Horn (politician)

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August Horn

August Horn (born August 27, 1866 in Bommels-Vitte in the Memel district , † March 26, 1925 in Stettin ) was a German politician of the Weimar Republic and a member of the Reichstag ( SPD ) in the 1st and 3rd electoral terms .

From 1872 to 1880 Horn attended the elementary school in Bommels-Vitte and then the advanced training school in Memel . From 1880 to 1884 he learned the shoemaker's trade and then worked as a journeyman before setting up his own craft in 1890 . He had already joined the SPD in 1886 and was then active in various positions both in the SPD and in the union . From 1899 to 1905 he worked as an auditor for the Stettiner Konsum- und Sparverein and then as the secretary of the SPD responsible for the province of Pomerania .

In March 1919 he became a city councilor and in November 1919 a city councilor in Stettin. He was elected to the Reichstag in 1920, to which he belonged in the first electoral term for the USPD and in the third electoral term as a member of the SPD until his death. For him moved Albert Bulow according to the Reichstag.

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  • 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 .

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