Carl Ulrich

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Carl Ulrich (born January 28, 1853 in Braunschweig , † April 12, 1933 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German politician and first President of the People's State of Hesse (1919–1928).

Live and act

Ulrich was born the son of a shoemaker and first learned the craft of metal turning. From 1872 he went on a hike that eventually took him to Mannheim and Offenbach am Main . During this wandering he first made intensive contact with the labor movement. He made his first public appearance as a speaker in Augsburg.

In 1875 he participated as one of the youngest delegates at the founding congress of the Socialist Workers' Party in Germany . In 1875 Ulrich became a full-time editor of the social democratic Neue Offenbacher daily newspaper , later also managing director of the cooperative printing company.

From 1885 to 1896 he represented the constituency of the city of Mainz in the second chamber of the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for four electoral terms .

Offenbacher Abendblatt

In 1885 Ulrich was elected together with Franz Jöst as the first social democrat in the state parliament of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt , of which he was a member until 1931.

In 1886 the so-called “secret society trial” took place between July 26th and August 4th as a result of the socialist legislation before the Freiberg district court in Saxony. Leading party members were charged with being involved in a secret association. Ignaz Auer , August Bebel , Karl Frohme , Georg von Vollmar , Louis Viereck and Carl Ulrich were each sentenced to nine months and a number of other defendants to six months each.

He then took over the cooperative printing company and became managing director and publisher of the Offenbacher Abendblatt. By the end of the 1880s, he rose to become the undisputed party leader of the Hessian SPD. From 1890 to 1903 and again from 1907 to 1930 he was also a member of the Reichstag . From 1896 to 1918 he was also Offenbach's city ​​councilor .

Prime Minister of Hesse

Carl Ulrich Youth Hostel in Zwingenberg
Carl Ulrich Bridge in Offenbach am Main
Grave of Carl Ulrich

After the end of the First World War , Ulrich was elected Prime Minister of the People's State of Hesse on February 21, 1919 . After the new state constitution came into force, he was sworn in as President of the State, the new name for the Hessian head of state , on March 20, 1920 . During his tenure in Hessen-Darmstadt a. a. the general elementary school introduced. In 1928, at the age of 75, he handed over the office of President to the Social Democrat Bernhard Adelung .

He was the longest-serving elector (if you add up the national and state levels), ahead of August Bebel and Richard Stücklen .

Carl Ulrich died in Offenbach city hospital. He is buried in the old cemetery in Offenbach am Main . The Main Bridge between Offenbach's city center and Frankfurt-Fechenheim , the Carl-Ulrich-Brücke , the Carl-Ulrich-Siedlung in Offenbach and the Carl-Ulrich-Jugendherberge in Zwingenberg were named after him.

literature

  • Bernd Braun:  Ulrich (until 1856 Eltze), Carl Theodor Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-5 , p. 614 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Thomas Lange: "We are not that far yet" - Carl Ulrich - pioneer for social democracy in the Hessian state parliament - speeches 1888-1919. Hessian writings on federalism and state parliamentarism, Volume 12, ISBN 978-3-923150-27-4 , online (PDF; 767 kB).
  • 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 , pp. 386-387.
  • 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. 915.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Constitution of the People's State of Hesse
personal data
SURNAME Ulrich, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR and first Prime Minister of the "People's State of Hesse" (1919–1928)
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1933
Place of death Offenbach am Main