Emanuel Wurm

Emanuel Wurm as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Emanuel Wurm (born September 16, 1857 in Breslau ; died May 3, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD , USPD ) and a member of the German Reichstag . In 1918 he was Secretary of State for Nutrition for a short time .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Berlin, Wurm, who was of Jewish faith, studied chemistry in Breslau from 1876 to 1880. He then became head of the vinegar pressed yeast factories in Dresden . In 1883 he switched to the magazine for spirits and compressed yeast industry in Vienna as editor . After he was editor of the newspaper Volksfreund for a year in 1887/88 , he founded the consumer association Vorwärts in Dresden in 1888 . As early as 1890 he started working as a journalist again and became editor of the newspaper Volkswille in Hanover . From 1902 he worked for Die Neue Zeit and in the same year became chairman of the association of the workers' press . His wife Mathilde was also a member of the Reichstag. He died as a result of an operation. He had bequeathed his brain to the brain researcher Oskar Vogt for research purposes.

The Emanuel-Wurm-Strasse in Weimar is named after Wurm .

Political party

Group photograph at the end of 1919 with members of the USPD party executive and other prominent representatives of the Independent Social Democrats on the occasion of a visit by Friedrich Adler (fourth from left), a leading representative of Austrian social democracy. Among those pictured: Arthur Crispien , Wilhelm Dittmann , Friedrich Adler, Richard Lipinski, Wilhelm Bock , Alfred Henke , Curt Geyer , Fritz Zubeil , Hugo Haase , Fritz Kunert , Georg Ledebour , Arthur Stadthagen , Emanuel Wurm

Wurm was originally a member of the SPD. At the beginning of the 20th century, he and Karl Kautsky directed the SPD theory magazine Die Neue Zeit and also taught at the SPD party school in Berlin. In the dispute over the approval of the war loans , he joined the newly founded USPD.

MP

Wurm was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency Reuss younger line for the first time from 1890 to 1907 . After he had lost the constituency in the meantime, he was able to win it again in 1912 and then belonged to the Reichstag until 1918. He was then a member of the Weimar National Assembly until his death .

Public offices

During the November Revolution, Wurm was State Secretary of the Reich Food Office from November 14, 1918 to February 13, 1919 .

Publications

People's Lexicon. Reference book for all branches of knowledge with special consideration of workers' legislation, health care, commercial science, social policy. In addition to the general register. 4 volumes + register, Verlag Wörlein & Comp., Nuremberg 1894–1899.
The knowledge of nature in the light of Darwinism. Publishing house R. Schnabel, Dresden 1899.
Health protection in the state, community and family. JHW Dietz Nachf., Stuttgart 1901.
On the history of German factory legislation. The first socio-political attempt in a German parliament. Speech by Franz Josef Ritter von Buß , member of the Baden state parliament, in 1837. With a foreword by A. Bebel , a biographical foreword by Ad. Dude , . Adolf Geck, Offenburg 1905. Review online
Alcohol question and social democracy. Berlin 1908.
The financial history of the German Empire. Dubber, Hamburg 1910.
The alcohol hazard. Their causes and how to combat them. Dubber, Hamburg 1912.
The price increase, its causes and control. Berlin 1915. Digitized
Guidelines for a community program. Berlin 1919. Digitized
The standard of living of the German workers. Schnabel, Dresden 1892.

literature

Theodor Müller (Ed.): 45 leaders from the beginnings and the heroic age of the Breslau social democracy . Robert Hermann, Breslau 1925, p. 102. Digitized .
Emanuel Wurm . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume I .: Deceased Personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover, 1960, pp. 338–339.
Marta Globig: Wurm, Emanuel . In: History of the German labor movement Biographisches Lexikon . dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 492-493.

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 290.
↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 102 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250)

Web links

Literature by and about Emanuel Wurm in the catalog of the German National Library
Emanuel Wurm in the database of members of the Reichstag

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm von Waldow	State Secretary in the Reich Food Office 1918–1919	–––––

personal data
SURNAME	Wurm, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdR and State Secretary of the Reich Food Office
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 1920
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 290.

[2] Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 102 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250)