Carl Jaecker

Carl Jaecker

Carl Jäcker (born May 7, 1884 in Rehme , Minden; † December 8, 1974 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was a German politician (SPD).

Live and act

After attending elementary school in Rehme and Bad Oeynhausen from 1890 to 1898, Jäcker learned the typesetting trade. Around 1902 Jäcker joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He also became a member of the union. In 1905 he married the tailor Wilhelmine Roolf, with whom he had four children. Until 1909 he worked as a manager in various areas of Germany. From 1909 he worked as an insurance officer. In 1918 he was drafted into the military. In 1919 he married Meta Fritschke for the second time.

After the First World War , Jäcker earned his living as party secretary of the SPD and as editor of the newspaper Das Freie Wort in Rastenburg . In 1919 he became an employee of the German Agricultural Workers' Association and member of the board of the Reich Association of German State Health Insurance Funds. He also became Vice President of the International Working Group of State Health Insurance Funds.

In March 1921, Jäcker moved into the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic for the first time after a new election for constituency 1 (East Prussia) . In the Reichstag elections of May 1924 , Jäcker left the Berlin parliament for the time being, but was able to return to the parliament in December 1924 . After his mandate was confirmed in the following three elections, Jäcker was a member of parliament until November 1932. He was also a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1932 to 1933 .

After the dissolution of the agricultural workers' association at the beginning of the National Socialist era, Jäcker was also dismissed. He returned to Westphalia and opened a paper wholesaler in Bad Oeynhausen. In 1937 he was arrested and sentenced to 21 months in prison for allegedly “preparing for high treason”. In 1939 he was released after serving his sentence.

After the liberation, Jäcker became involved again in the SPD. In 1945/46 he was a part-time mayor and from 1946 to 1951 a full-time official director of the Rehme Office . He then retired. He spent the last years of his life in Bad Oeynhausen.

Today the Carl-Jäcker-Straße in Bad Oeynhausen is a reminder of Jäcker's life and political work.

literature

• Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century ; Marburg: Schüren, 2000; ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , p. 154
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Carl Jäcker in the database of members of the Reichstag