August Kühn (politician)

August Kühn

August Kühn (born October 25, 1846 in Altenlohm , † March 18, 1916 in Oberlangenbielau , Silesia ) was a social democratic journalist and politician of the early SPD .

Life

The father was an unskilled worker. Kühn did an apprenticeship as a tailor after elementary school. During the Franco-Prussian War he participated in the war. After the proclamation of the German Empire , Kühn worked in the profession he had learned. From 1874 to 1890 he was an independent master tailor in Langenbielau.

Members of the social democratic parliamentary group in the Reichstag in 1889. (seated from the left: Georg Schumacher , Friedrich Harm , August Bebel , Heinrich Meister and Karl Frohme . Standing: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz , August Kühn , Wilhelm Liebknecht , Karl Grillenberger , and Paul Singer )

Kühn joined the General German Workers 'Association in 1867 and in 1872 switched to the SDAP , which was more strongly oriented towards Marxism , which in 1875 merged with the ADAV to form the Socialist Workers' Party (SAP) after a compromise was reached .

In 1874 Kühn also joined the union. Since that year he ran several times in vain in constituencies in Lower Silesia for the Reichstag , even during the repressive socialist laws between 1878 and 1890. In 1889, he probably won a by-election for the first time for the constituency of Breslau 7 a Reichstag mandate. After the Reichstag election in 1890 , he initially resigned from parliament.

During this time, when the SAP was renamed the SPD after the Socialist Act was repealed, Kühn became a publisher , managing director and at times also was the editor of the newspaper Proletarians from the Owl Mountains in Oberlangenbielau. Because of the social democratic views expressed in the paper, he was sentenced to numerous penalties for press offenses. This also included a sentence of six and a half months in prison for lese majesty .

From 1893 to 1907 he represented the constituency of Breslau 11 ( Reichenbach - Neurode ) as a candidate for social democracy . After an interruption, he returned to the Reichstag in 1912, to which he belonged until his death.

literature

Theodor Müller (Ed.): 45 leaders from the beginnings and the heroic age of the Breslau social democracy . Robert Hermann, Breslau 1925, pp. 70–72, digitized version (PDF).

Web links

Biography of August Kühn . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Biography of August Kuehn . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
August Kühn in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 74.
↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1913, p. 87 (Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 250)

personal data
SURNAME	Bold, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publisher and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	October 25, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altenlohm
DATE OF DEATH	March 18, 1916
Place of death	Oberlangenbielau , Silesia

[1] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 74.

[2] Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1913, p. 87 (Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 250)