August Wesemeier
August Wesemeier (born February 11, 1866 in Helmstedt , † March 5, 1930 in Braunschweig ) was a social democratic politician.
Live and act
Wesemeier attended elementary school and was then trained as a bricklayer and plasterer. He worked as a bricklayer until 1896. From April 1896 to April 1917 he was editor of the social democratic daily newspaper Volksfreund in Braunschweig. He was also active in the free trade union movement . Wesemeier was chairman of the bricklayers' association in Braunschweig from 1895 to 1898. Then he was until 1919 chairman of the local union cartel . He was also a member of the city council from 1902 to 1913 and between 1917 and 1923 .
On March 19, 1910, he was sentenced to eight months in prison by the Braunschweig Regional Court for insulting State Minister Albert von Otto .
Wesemeier took part in the SPD party conventions in September 1901 and September 1912 . In 1917 he switched to the USPD and returned to the SPD in 1922. During the November Revolution, Wesemeier was the people's representative for the interests of the city of Braunschweig. Professionally he worked as a workers secretary between 1917 and 1929, with a few brief interruptions . He was also chairman of the supervisory board of the building cooperative in Braunschweig.
In 1920 Wesemeier ran in vain for the USPD for the Reichstag . Between 1918 and 1930 he was a member of the Braunschweig State Parliament . For a short time from February to May 1922 Wesemeier was Minister for the Interior of the State of Braunschweig. He was President of the Landtag from 1920 to 1922 and from 1927 to 1930.
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 387 .
- 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. 648.
Web links
- Biography of August Wesemeier . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c biography of August Wesemeier . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
- ^ U. Daniel / CK Frey (ed.), The Prussian-Welf Wedding 1913: The dynastic Europe in its last year of peace. Braunschweig 2016. p. 46.
- ↑ The Free State of Braunschweig - The State Governments 1918–1933 on gonschior.de, accessed on August 28, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wesemeier, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social democratic politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helmstedt |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1930 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |