Balthasar Cramer

Balthasar Cramer (born December 4, 1851 in Darmstadt , † October 23, 1923 there ) was a German SPD politician .

Life

Cramer was born the son of a copper printer. He attended primary school in Darmstadt from 1857 to 1865, learned carpentry from 1865 to 1868 and worked as a journeyman until 1874 . After that he was an innkeeper in Darmstadt until 1903. Then he lived as a privateer .

Since 1875 he belonged to the social democratic party. From 1894 he took part in several party conventions. Cramer was a member of the Central Party Control Commission in 1900 and 1901. From 1901 to 1906 he was a city councilor in Darmstadt. Between 1893 and 1905 he was a member of the Hessian state parliament . From 1898 to 1906 he was a member of the Reichstag . After internal disputes within the party, Cramer resigned from the Reichstag in 1906. In 1910 he resigned from the SPD.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 100.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 116.
• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X .
• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic MPs and Reichstag candidates 1898–1918. Biographical-statistical handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-5135-1 .
• Who is it Issue 4, 1909, ZDB -ID 207268-3 .

Web links

• Balthasar Cramer in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Balthasar Cramer's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Balthasar Cramer's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Cramer, Balthasar. Hessian biography. (As of August 31, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 15, 2). Half volume 2. Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1331-1335.