August Junke

August Junke (born April 23, 1877 in Stadtoldendorf ; † November 21, 1926 in Braunschweig ) was a social democratic politician and Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig in 1921/22 .

Live and act

Junke learned to be a locksmith and worked in Braunschweig from 1885. He joined the SPD before the First World War . In 1917 Junke joined the USPD . During the November Revolution he was from November 10, 1918 to February 21, 1919 People's Representative (People's Commissar) of the Free State of Braunschweig. From February 22, 1919 he was a member of the 1st Braunschweig State Parliament in this capacity . Junke also took over the school system from April 30, 1919 to June 22, 1920 under the government of Prime Minister Heinrich Jasper (SPD). From mid-1919 to 1920 Junke worked as a businessman in Braunschweig. In the 2nd state parliament from June 22, 1920 to November 24, 1921 (Prime Minister Sepp Oerter , USPD) he was again solely responsible for the judiciary. He then took over the chairmanship as Prime Minister of the country in a coalition government of the USPD and SPD until March 28, 1922. However, he resigned his state parliament mandate prematurely, as he was overthrown on March 29 by a vote of no confidence. Otto Antrick (SPD) then took over the chairmanship. August Wesemeier took over the Ministry of the Interior and Otto Grotewohl (both USPD) was appointed to the Ministry of Justice .

In the same year he joined the SPD again from the USPD. In the following years he lived as an innkeeper in Braunschweig.

Private

August Junke had a son Gerhard (1913–1943), who in 1935 was admitted to the Langenhorn “sanatorium and nursing home” and was forcibly sterilized . In 1943 he was murdered in the "killing facility" Meseritz-Obrawalde . His stumbling block is listed in the list of stumbling blocks in Hamburg-Langenhorn .

literature

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, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 177.
Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 308-309 .

Web links

Biography of August Junke . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)

Individual evidence

↑ Stadtchronik Braunschweig 1910 to 1919 ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at m.braunschweig.de, accessed on August 28, 2013.
↑ 1922 - Braunschweig ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on zhsf.gesis.org, accessed on August 28, 2013.
↑ The Free State of Braunschweig - The State Governments 1918–1933 on gonschior.de, accessed on August 28, 2013.
^ Gerhard Junke (* 1913) on stolpersteine-hamburg.de, accessed on August 28, 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	Junke, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German social democratic politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 23, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stadtoldendorf
DATE OF DEATH	November 21, 1926
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Stadtchronik Braunschweig 1910 to 1919 ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at m.braunschweig.de, accessed on August 28, 2013.

[2] 1922 - Braunschweig ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on zhsf.gesis.org, accessed on August 28, 2013.

[3] The Free State of Braunschweig - The State Governments 1918–1933 on gonschior.de, accessed on August 28, 2013.

[4] Gerhard Junke (* 1913) on stolpersteine-hamburg.de, accessed on August 28, 2013.