August Hornung

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August Friedrich Hornung (born September 19, 1867 in Güglingen , † June 8, 1927 in Böckingen ) was a German tailor and politician ( SPD and USPD ). From 1911 to 1918 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Württemberg Land estates , 1919/1920 as a successor member of the Constituent State Assembly for Württemberg and finally from 1924 until his death a member of the Landtag of the Free People's State of Württemberg . From 1913 until his death he was also a member of the Böckingen municipal council .

Life

Hornung was one of two children of master tailor Wilhelm Ludwig Hornung (1833–1894) and Katharina Dorothea Ströhlein (1828–1900). He attended elementary school and until 1881 (without qualification) the Latin school in Güglingen. According to the wishes of his parents, he then learned the tailoring trade from his father. As a journeyman he went on a journey through Germany, as was customary at the time, and came to Heilbronn , Ludwigsburg , Wiesbaden , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg and Lübeck . During the years of wandering he got to know the trade union and labor movement, which became his political home. He joined the SPD. After the hike, Hornung was an independent master tailor in Güglingen. In 1893 he married Gottliebin Wilhelmine Burrer (* 1869); the marriage resulted in a child.

In 1900 and 1906 Hornung ran for the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies in the Brackenheim constituency. Although he increased his share of the vote from the first candidacy to the second, both times he was unsuccessful against the mandate holder Friedrich von Balz ( DP ).

When a by-election became necessary after the death of the SPD member Wilhelm Schäffler in the constituency of Heilbronn Amt, Hornung ran and prevailed on January 11, 1911, among others, against the farmer's union candidate Wilhelm Haag . In the regular election on November 16, 1912, Hornung was confirmed as a member of this constituency. In 1911 he moved to Böckingen, where he was the owner of a clothing store. On December 4, 1913, he was also elected to the Böckingen municipal council, of which he was a member until his death in 1927. In 1916 he resigned from the Evangelical Church , which he had previously belonged to.

In 1917 Hornung, who was on the left in the SPD and was disappointed by their approval of war credits, joined the newly founded USPD and was its district chairman and local chairman in Böckingen until 1922. During the November revolution he said on 9 November 1918, a mass demonstration of the Heilbronner city hall staircase to the assembled crowd in the town square, called for the formation of a socialist People's Republic and the abdication of all dynasties and suggested the formation of a workers 'and Soldiers' Council , covering in de facto had already formed under Friedrich Reinhardt (USPD) and has now been legitimized by raising hands. During the subsequent march of the approximately 5000 people to the Heilbronn cell prison , he was part of the leadership group that negotiated with the prison director Gustav Roser about the release of all prisoners for political and military offenses. The negotiations soon became groundless as the crowd stormed and looted the prison and freed all prisoners.

For the USPD, Hornung was a member of the nine-member commission (four members from the SPD, two from the USPD, one each from Zentrum , FVP and DP ), which, chaired by Wilhelm Keil, from December 17, 1918 to January 19, 1919 drafted the Wuerttemberg's future constitution, which was then discussed further in the state constitutional assembly from January 31st. From May 5, 1919, he was a member of the State Constituent Assembly as a replacement for Arthur Crispien, who had resigned .

In 1919 Hornung was editor of the USPD weekly Socialist Republic , the organ of the independent social democracy of the Unterland . As chairman of the Böckingen workers 'and peasants' council, he wrote to the Württemberg state president Wilhelm Blos on July 2nd, 1919 , in which he passed on a unanimous decision of the council of June 30th, which passed against the state constitutional assembly on June 13th Repeal of the councils from July 15 protested. The council called for the councils to continue to exist and for the proletariat to be armed "in order to protect and promote the gains of the revolution".

From October 23, 1922, after the USPD had de facto dissolved, Hornung was again a member of the SPD. In 1924 he became chairman of the Böckingen local association of the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold . In the same year he moved into the Württemberg state parliament via the Heilbronn SPD district list . When Böckingen's city school teacher, Adolf Alter , submitted an application to the state government and state parliament in February 1927, with the unanimous support of the municipal council, in view of the great financial hardship of the working-class city of Böckingen, for an extraordinary grant to offset the financial year 1926, Hornung advocated this in the state parliament. However, the motion did not find a majority.

On June 8, 1927, Hornung was run over in Böckingen while trying to save his grandson from a driving car. His funeral service took place on June 11th at the Heilbronn main cemetery . In the state parliament, Emilie Hiller took over his Heilbronn district list mandate, and Jakob Weimer moved up from the SPD state list for her .

Honors

August-Hornung-Strasse has existed in Böckingen since September 25, 1947 . It was created by renaming the Panoramastraße, which from 1933 to April 26, 1945 was called Heinrich-Valid-Straße.

The memorial on Hornung's grave was destroyed during the Nazi era. On his 100th birthday in 1967, he received a city grave of honor in the Böckinger Friedhof on Heidelberger Strasse .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stadtarchiv Heilbronn , Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung, signature ZS-10188, entry on August Hornung in the HEUSS database (accessed on December 30, 2012).
  2. ↑ Peter Wanner (Red.): Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998, ISBN 3-928990-65-9 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 37), p. 154.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Steinhilber : The state upheaval 1918–1920 in Heilbronn. In: Heilbronn Historical Association. 24. Publication. Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1963, ISSN  0175-9833 , pp. 218-263.
  4. ^ Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. XXXI-XXXII .
  5. ↑ Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, periodicals shelfmark L008-22, entry on Socialist Republic - Organ of the Independent Social Democracy of the Unterland in the HEUSS database (accessed on December 30, 2012).
  6. ↑ Quoted from Stickel-Pieper (see literature), p. 311.
  7. ↑ Peter Wanner (Red.): Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998, ISBN 3-928990-65-9 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 37), pp. 167, 429-430.
  8. ↑ Peter Wanner (Red.): Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998, ISBN 3-928990-65-9 ( Publications of the City of Heilbronn Archives. Volume 37), pp. 174-175.
  9. ^ Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 360, 996 .
  10. ↑ Susanne Schlösser: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume IV: 1933-1938. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2001, ISBN 3-928990-77-2 , p. XXVI, 513 ( Publications of the Archives of the City of Heilbronn . Volume 39).
  11. ↑ Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume VI: 1945-1951. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-928990-55-1 , p. 4, 198, 571 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 34).
  12. ^ Gerhard Schwinghammer and Reiner Makowski: The Heilbronner street names . Edited by the city of Heilbronn. 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-677-6 , p. 32.

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 401 .
  • Peter Lipp: August Hornung. In: Peter Wanner (Red.): Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1998, ISBN 3-928990-65-9 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 37), pp. 625–626.
  • Susanne Stickel-Pieper (arrangement): Trau! Look! Whom? Documents on the history of the labor movement in the Heilbronn / Neckarsulm area 1844–1949 . Distel-Verlag, Heilbronn 1994, ISBN 3-929348-09-8 , in the book ISBN 3-923348-09-8 , pp. 266-268, 274, 276-277, 308, 310-311.
  • Albert Großhans: 100 years of the SPD Heilbronn 1874–1974 . Social Democratic Party of Germany, Local Association Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1974, pp. 35, 57–59.

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personal data
SURNAME Hornung, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hornung, August Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tailors and politicians (SPD and USPD)
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Güglingen
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1927
Place of death Boeckingen