August Jordan

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August Jordan (born July 17, 1872 in Bovenden , † May 4, 1935 in Delmenhorst ) was a German politician (SPD).

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First standing from the left, August Jordan, SPD parliamentary group in the Oldenburg state parliament

Jordan attended elementary school in Bovenden. He then earned his living as a cigar maker. Around 1890 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1905 to 1919 he was part-time workers secretary and from 1913 to 1919 he worked as a travel agent and editor of the Norddeutsche Volksblatt , an SPD newspaper that appeared in Rüstringen .

In 1899 Jordan was elected to the city council of Delmenhorst, to which he belonged until 1903 and then again from 1908 to 1919, most recently as a member of the magistrate.

In 1911 Jordan became a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament , to which he belonged until 1928 , even after the turmoil of the revolution of 1918 . From 1923 to 1925 he held the office of Vice-President of the State Parliament. When the revolution broke out, on November 8, 1918 , he and Eduard Schömer led the popular assembly on the market square in Delmenhorst, numbering in the thousands. In his address he made demands for the right to self-determination for all citizens, the rejection of the authoritarian state and warnings against revolutionary troublemakers who were enemies of the labor movement. The congregation elected Jordan as alderman for the city. On November 11th he became a member of the board of directors of the Free State of Oldenburg and remained so until its dissolution on June 17, 1919. In January 1919, he opposed an attempted coup by Bremen's Spartakists and freed the imprisoned Mayor of Delmenhorst, Hermann Hadenfeldt. At the party convention of the SPD on December 29, 1918, Jordan was nominated alongside Paul Hug and Otto Vesper from Osnabrück as a candidate for election to the Weimar National Assembly and entered the National Assembly as Hug's successor from June 22 to July 5, 1919, in which he represented constituency 15 (Aurich-Osnabrück-Oldenburg). After Jordan's departure, Marie Behncke continued his mandate .

From May 1, 1919 to June 30, 1933, Jordan was mayor of Delmenhorst and was responsible as a department head for welfare, housing, youth and insurance offices as well as vocational schools. Because of its acquired in these activities merit, Jordan was a few months after the Nazi seizure of power by the National Socialist State Commissioner of Delmenhorst in accordance with § 4 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil sacked as mayor and retired. A few weeks after he was able to enforce his pension entitlement in 1935, Jordan died after a stroke .

Today the August-Jordan-Strasse and the August-Jordan-Heim in Delmenhorst still remind of Jordan's political activities and his services to his hometown.

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SURNAME Jordan, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Bovenden
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1935
Place of death Delmenhorst