August Perl

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Friedrich Carl August Perl (born November 7, 1837 in Hamburg ; † December 20, 1881 there ) was a lawyer and a leading early Hamburg Social Democrat and from June 1866 to May 1867 he was president of the General German Workers' Association (ADAV) as the successor to Carl Wilhelm Tölcke .

August Perl

Life

Perl was the son of a shoemaker. He became a legal assistant to Dr. Israel. Later he was the founder and accounting officer of the Volksbank and accountant of the Hamburger Konsumverein . Perl was one of the leading figures in the left opposition in the Hamburg workers' education association . This group joined the ADAV under his influence. He became editor of the newspaper Der Nordstern . The newspaper initially served the opposition group in the Hamburg workers' education association as a mouthpiece. Later in the early years of the party it was one of the most important organs of the ADAV. Perl became a member of the board of directors of ADAV and authorized representative of the strong Hamburg community of ADAV. August Perl was the responsible publisher of the magazine Der Nordstern from number 322 from September 9, 1865 to number 243, 1864 . Organ of the Social Democratic Party and the General German Workers' Association .

After the resignation of Carl Wilhelm Tölcke, a new president of the ADAV had to be elected. At the Leipzig congress of the ADAV on June 17, 1866, Sophie von Hatzfeldt failed, above all because of the resistance of Johann Baptist von Schweitzer , to get Hugo Hillmann to be a party president she liked. Instead, Schweitzer successfully proposed August Perl. The actual political line, however, was determined by Schweitzer. Since July 1866, Perl organized a campaign for democratic suffrage in the emerging North German Confederation . Various regional workers' days were held for this purpose. At the General Assembly on December 27, 1866 in Erfurt , Perl was confirmed in the office of President. Before the elections for the constituent Reichstag , Perl was a candidate for a Hamburg constituency. In December 1866 at the congress in Erfurt, Countess Hatzfeldt tried to have Perl voted out of office. This failed again. In May 1867 he was succeeded by Schweitzer as President of the ADAV. Perl and August Geib, as the leaders of the Hamburg ADAV, left the ADAV as a result of Schweitzer's unauthorized decision in 1869 to join the SAP .

" Should Mr. Perl in Hamburg or whoever else we elect to be our president in the future, or should the Countess von Hatzfeld be our president, the head of the German labor party? "

- Social Democrat No. January 1, 1868; quoted from Christiane Kling-Mathey: Countess Hatzfeld. 1805 to 1881. Eine Biographie , Dietz, Bonn 1989, p. 195. ISBN 3-8012-0142-2

Perl withdrew completely from politics. In 1870 Perl received his doctorate in Heidelberg , he was initially not admitted to the bar. From 1871 to 1872 Perl was established as FCA Perl Dr. d. Enter R. Zollbrücke 5 in the Hamburg address books . Perl initially operated the Winckeladvokatur until he was enrolled on July 22, 1872 after the police lord's intercession. Perl remained a lawyer until 1881. The last entry in 1882 reads: Perl, August Dr. d. R. Attorney B. Cto. Volks Rathausstrasse 1.

literature

  • August Bebel : From my life . Vol. 2, Dietz, Stuttgart 1911.
  • Heinrich Laufenberg : History of the labor movement in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Auer, Hamburg 1911 and 1931 (reprinted in Berlin 1977).
  • August Perl : In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 237.
  • Toni Offermann: Labor movement and liberal bourgeoisie in Germany 1850–1863 . Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1979, p. 296, note 163.
  • Angelika Voss-Louis: Hamburg's labor movement in the change of society. A chronicle. Vol. 1 1842 to 1890 . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1987 ( Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history . Supplement 3) ISBN 3-7672-1008-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg registry office 01: death register . No. 4294/1881.
  2. ↑ Holger Martens : The Cooperative Law of 1889 and the Start-Up Boom in Hamburg In: 125 Years of the Cooperative Law - Contributions to the 9th Conference on Cooperative History, publisher: Heinrich-Kaufmann-Stiftung, Hamburg 2015
  3. ↑ Shlomo Na'aman: The Constitution of the German Labor Movement 1862/63, Assen, 1975 p. 765
  4. ^ Franz Mehring : History of the German Social Democracy: Up to the Franco-German War. Stuttgart, 1906 p. 25
  5. ↑ Bert Andréas : On the agitation and propaganda of the General German Workers' Association 1863/64, in: AfS 3/1963 p. 299
  6. ↑ Bernhard Becker: History of the workers agitation Ferdinand Lassalle's, Braunschweig, 1874 p. 284
  7. ^ Franz Osterroth / Dieter Schuster: Chronicle of the German Social Democracy, Vol. 1: Until the end of the First World War, Bonn / Berlin 1975 online version
  8. ↑ RP. Morgan: The German Social Democrats and the First International: 1864-1872, Cambridge, 1969 p. 11
  9. ↑ In the presidential election, Hillmann-Elberfeld lost to August Perl-Hamburg, which was an indirect victory for Schweitzer . August Bebel. Selected writings . Vol. 6, Berlin 1983, p. 207.
  10. ↑ Dieter Fricke: The German workers' movement 1869-1914. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, p. 71.
  11. ^ Günter Trautmann: Liberalism, Labor Movement and State in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein 1862 - 1869, in: AfS 15/1979, p. 70
  12. ^ RP Morgan: The German Social Democrats and the First International: 1864-1872, Cambridge, 1969 p. 21
  13. ^ RP Morgan: The German Social Democrats and the First International: 1864-1872, Cambridge 1969, p. 28
  14. ↑ Toni Offermann, p. 296.
  15. ↑ a b Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 368
  16. ↑ The Hamburg address books for August Perl from 1868, 1869, 1870 are missing, 1871-1882.
  17. ^ Office Contor of the Volksbank
  18. ↑ On October 1, 1879, the lawyers' ordinance was implemented in the German Reich and the system of lawyers in Hamburg was abolished. Hamburg lawyers could, under certain conditions, be admitted as lawyers. See Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg lawyers from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 306
personal data
SURNAME Perl, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perl, Friedrich Carl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democrat, President of the ADAV
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1881
Place of death Hamburg