Eduard Graef

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Eduard Graef (born December 13, 1870 in Wetzhausen ; † January 1, 1936 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German social democratic politician.

Life

Gräf worked as a lithographic assistant until 1898. In 1888 he became a member of the SPD and the free trade unions . In 1890 he was a co-founder of the SPD in Frankfurt and had held party offices since 1891. From 1891 he was chairman of the Workers Protection Association in Bockenheim . Between 1899 and 1919 he was a full-time workers secretary in Frankfurt am Main. Since 1894 Gräf was a member of the board and since 1897 chairman of the local health insurance fund in Frankfurt. He also held this position until 1919. He was also a member of the central board of the main association of local health insurance funds between 1899 and 1920.

Between 1906 and 1919, Gräf was a member of the city council in Frankfurt. Since 1901 he was deputy mayor of the city council. Between 1913 and 1918 Gräf was chairman of the social democratic state organization for Hessen-Nassau .

Between 1919 and 1921, Gräf was a member of the Prussian constituent assembly and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In addition, between April 1919 and May 1920 he was Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of Welfare and, in 1919, an advisory council in the Reich Health Office. In 1920 he was Vice President of the Prussian State Council . In addition, between 1919 and 1932 Gräf was a member of the municipal council in the Wiesbaden administrative district and was president of the committee from 1929 to 1932.

From 1920 to 1932 Gräf was full-time mayor and department head for youth and welfare in Frankfurt. He then retired.

Eduard Graef's grave in the Frankfurt main cemetery

In 1930 Gräf received an honorary doctorate (Dr. med. Hc) from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1930 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt . In Frankfurt a street is named after Gräf. The city of Bad Orb in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse has also chosen the patron of the Frankfurt Kinderdorf Wegscheide school camp to be the namesake of their Graefstrasse. His grave in the main cemetery in Frankfurt is a grave of honor .

literature

  • Count, Eduard. In: ' Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 . P. 275
  • Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 109–110.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. the partial print of his annual report for 1900 "A model case according to the new accident insurance law." In: Collection of sources on the history of German social policy. 1867 to 1914 . Department 3: Development and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the new course (1890–1904). Volume 2: Wolfgang Ayaß : The revision of the accident insurance laws and the practice of accident insurance. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-13450-2 , No. 133.

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personal data
SURNAME Count, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzhausen
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1936
Place of death Frankfurt am Main