August Meyer (politician)

August Meyer (born March 12, 1871 in Holdenstedt , † December 1, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

August Meyer was born the son of a shoemaker. After attending primary school, he worked as a cigar worker and cigar maker in Delmenhorst until 1905 . He moved to Rheine and was chairman of the local trade union cartel from 1909 to 1913. Afterwards he worked again as a cigar maker and as an insurance agent. From 1918 until his death he worked as a union secretary in Rheine.

Meyer joined the SPD in the 19th century. Until 1899 he wrote articles for the Delmenhorster Volksblatt and for various trade union papers. From 1902 to 1904 he was a member of the Oldenburg Landtag .

After the First World War , Meyer was a member of the SPD executive committee for the Ahaus and Tecklenburg districts . From 1919 to 1924 he was a member of the Rheiner city council and from 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian state constituent assembly . In February 1921 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged without interruption until his death. In parliament he represented constituency 17 (Westphalia-North). From 1926 to 1929 he was also a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia .

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. p. 565.
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates for the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 136.

Web links

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