August Stampe

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August Stampe (born April 17, 1878 in Wandsbek ; † May 7, 1965 in Bremerhaven ) was a member of the Bremen Parliament and Senator ( SPD ).

biography

job

Stampe attended elementary school and worked as a construction worker. He lived in Bremen from 1903 to 1912 . From 1912 to 1919 he was an employee of the German construction workers' association in Bremerhaven and at the same time managing director of the building cooperative in Bremerhaven. In between he served as a soldier in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. From 1920 to 1924 he was an employee of the North German Lloyd in the shipyard in Bremerhaven . From 1925 to 1933 he worked again as an employee of the German Construction Trade Association , in 1925 in Osnabrück , from May 1925 in Emden and from 1928 as district manager of the Association for Hesse in Frankfurt am Main .

politics

Stampe became a member of the SPD in 1901 and had been in the union since 1904. From 1908 to 1912 he was a board member of the SPD in Bremen and from 1911 to 1912 a member of the district board of the German construction workers' association .

After the First World War , he was chairman of the workers' council in Bremerhaven in 1918 and a delegate at the 1st council congress in Berlin. He worked with the workers' leaders Arnemann, Geiger Hoffmann and Schlueter. The council issued a memorandum on cooperation between the Lower Weser towns. In January 1919, 20,000 citizens took part in a rally of the workers' council, the trade unions and the majority Social Democratic Party (MSPD) in Bremerhaven on the market square (today Theodor-Heuss-Platz ), at which the union secretary Stampa gave the main speech. He called for non-violent action and the use of weapons only in the event of resistance.

In 1919/1920 he was a member of the Bremen constituent assembly . From April 1919 to July 1920 he was Bremen Senator in the Senate under Karl Deichmann (SPD). He was responsible for construction.

During the Nazi era he was temporarily imprisoned in a concentration camp . After 1945/46 he was chairman of the Spruchkammer in Bremerhaven as part of the denazification process .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ IG Metall, Bremerhaven administrative office: History of Bremerhaven work and workers' movement ; [1] .
personal data
SURNAME Stampe, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Bremen Senator (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Wandsbek
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1965
Place of death Bremerhaven