Carl Sievers (politician)

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Carl Sievers

Carl Sievers (born January 17, 1867 in Burgdorf near Hanover, † May 13, 1925 in Hanover ) was a German politician ( DHP ).

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After attending the community school in Burgdorf in Hanover, Sievers completed an apprenticeship as a bespoke tailor from 1881 to 1884 . From 1884 to 1893 he worked as an assistant in shops in Dresden , Leipzig , Berlin and Hanover . In 1893 he became an independent men's tailor in Hanover.

In 1903 Sievers became a member of the board, in 1909 deputy head master and in 1921 head master of the tailoring office in Hanover. He was also a board member since 1903, deputy chairman since 1909 and chairman of the Northwest German District Association of the Federation of German Tailors' Guilds in Leipzig since 1918 . From 1906 Sievers was district chairman of the city of Hanover as well as member and deputy chairman, from 1919 first chairman of the master craftsman's examination committee for the tailoring trade in Hanover. Sievers was also a board member of the Hanover Chamber of Skilled Crafts , co-founder and third chairman of the Northwest German Crafts Association and Chairman of the District Crafts Association in Hanover as well as a committee member of the Hanover State Insurance Institute . In 1916 Sievers, who volunteered to care for the poor in Hanover, was also co-founder and managing director of the purchasing and delivery cooperative in Hanover.

After the First World War Sievers became a member of the German-Hanoverian Party . From June 1920 until his death in May 1925 he was a member of the Reichstag for the first to the third electoral term of the Weimar Republic as a member of the constituency 17 or (after renumbering the constituencies) 15 (East Hanover). After Siever's death, his party colleague Ludwig Alpers took over his mandate.

The family grave for the Sievers family is one of the celebrity graves in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery in Hanover's northern part of Hanover.

literature

  • 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. 341

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : BIORAB-Online.
  2. ↑ a b o. V .: Sievers, Carl in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of June 22, 2006, last accessed on March 27, 2020
  3. ↑ top v .: Graves of celebrities on the page nikolai-friedhof.de [ undated ], last accessed on March 27, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DHP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgdorf (Hanover region)
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1925
Place of death Hanover