Bruno Geiser

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Bruno Geiser

Rudolph Maximilian Bruno Geiser (pseudonym Kurt Falk ; born April 10, 1846 in Breslau ; † September 25, 1898 in Breslau) was a German editor as well as a socialist writer and politician, first of the Social Democratic Workers 'Party (SDAP) , and later of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany ( SAP) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) . Geiser was a member of the Reichstag for the SDAP and SAP from 1871 to 1877.

Life

Geiser came from a middle-class family, attended high school and began studying in Berlin . However, he left the university without a degree. Since 1869 he was a member of the SDAP. During the Franco-Prussian War Geiser participated in the war .

After the war he first worked for the magazine Zeitgeist in Munich . From 1873 to 1875 he was a member of the central SDAP party committee. In the years 1875 and 1876 he worked for the party organ Der Volksstaat in Leipzig . He then worked for the socialist entertainment paper Die Neue Welt until 1887 , and became its editor-in-chief. On March 29, 1877 Geiser married Alice Liebknecht (1857–1933), a daughter of Wilhelm Liebknecht . In the Reichstag election in 1881 , he was elected to the Reichstag in the Chemnitz constituency. When in 1881 the small state of siege was imposed on Leipzig in accordance with Section 18 of the Socialist Act in conjunction with the ordinance of the Royal Ministry of Dresden from June 28, 1881, Geiser u. a. with August Bebel and Liebknecht to those socialists who were expelled from the city and district of Leipzig. In 1883 he was Stuttgart delegate at the Copenhagen party congress of the SAP, which had emerged in 1875 from the merger of the SDAP with the General German Workers' Association (ADAV) . In 1884 he was temporarily director of the Hygiene Institute in Stuttgart. In the 1884 Reichstag election on October 28, 1884, he succeeded in being confirmed as a Saxon member of the Reichstag in the Chemnitz district . His extraordinary popularity is also shown by the result of a counting candidacy that he ran for this election in Württemberg . Here he achieved in the Oberamt Nürtingen as well as with 19.6% in the entire 5th Württemberg Reichstag constituency, the best result for the SAP during the Socialist Law. In the city of Nürtingen it even got 25.1% of the votes and in the rural communities Hardt , Reudern and Raidwangen in the Oberamt even higher results, although local groups of the Labor Party did not already exist in these or the city. From 1886 he lived again as a writer in Breslau.

In October 1887 Geiser lost all of his party offices because of internal party conflicts. This decision was not repealed until 1892. Professionally, he was initially editor of the Schlesische Nachrichten in Breslau. After his dismissal, he switched to the competition paper The Truth .

Geiser published various literary, historical and political writings partly under the pseudonym Kurt Falk.

Works

  • The demands of socialism on the future and the present. A writing for defense and attack . Rottmanner Comp., Munich 1875.
  • The demands of socialism on the future and the present . 2nd rev. Ed., Wilhelm Bracke jun., Braunschweig 1876.
  • The German Reich and its legislation. Materials for socialist agitation . Höhme, Leipzig 1878.
  • Carl Boruttau: The religious question and the working people . New ed. by B. Geiser. Höhme, Leipzig 1878.
  • Under what conditions can social democracy achieve victory? Principal discussion . Körner, Leipzig 1880.
  • From the negotiations on the extension of the Socialist Law. Speeches by the deputies Geiser and Bebel . Grillenberger, Nuremberg 1884.
  • The new world . Editor: Bruno Geiser. JHW Dietz, Hamburg / Stuttgart 1885 and 1886.
  • Overcoming war through the development of international law. At the same time, an answer to the question of how an international peace society can become a cultural power . JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1886.
  • History of the dispossessed classes from antiquity to the present . Self-published, Breslau 1890.
  • Kurt Falk: The efforts of social democracy, illuminated by the insanity of Eugen Richter . Wörlein & Comp., Nuremberg 1891.
  • Kurt Falk: The Christian Church and Socialism. A social democratic answer to the encyclical Leo XIII. Wörlein & Comp., Nuremberg 1891.
  • Kurt Falk: Anti-Semitism and Social Democracy . Grimpe, Elberfeld 1892.

literature

  • Theodor Müller (Ed.): 45 leaders from the beginnings and the heroic age of the Breslau social democracy . Robert Hermann, Breslau 1925, pp. 40–43 digitized .
  • Bruno Geiser . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism. Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 97.
  • Helga Berndt: Biographical sketches of Leipzig worker functionaries. Documentation on the 100th anniversary of the Socialist Law (1878–1890) . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 124–126. (Licensed edition Topos, Vaduz 1979)
  • Maag, Gerhard, From the Socialist Law to the First World War, in: Working Group History of the Nürtingen Workers' Movement, The Other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD, ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen, Nürtingen 1989, pp. 23–62.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Osterroth, p. 97.
  2. ↑ Cf. Maag, Gerhard, From the Socialist Law to the First World War, in: Working group history of the Nürtinger workers' movement, The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD, ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen, Nürtingen 1989, pp. 23–62, pp. 34–36.
  3. ↑ to: Wilhelm Blos: Memories of a Social Democrat. Munich 1914. p. 164 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Geiser, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geiser, Rudolph Maximilian Bruno (full name); Falk, Kurt (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1898
Place of death Wroclaw