Emil Hartwig (politician)

Emil Hartwig

Emil Hartwig (born September 30, 1873 in Hagen , † January 19, 1943 in Berlin-Lankwitz ) was a German politician of the DNVP and the CSVD .

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Emil Hartwig came from a Protestant family from Westphalia. He attended elementary school, then the Nazareth school in Bethel near Bielefeld and then, like his father, learned the tailoring trade. After he had already attended the cutting academy, for health reasons he retrained as a galvanizer in 1901 and worked as a nickel maker in a stove factory in 1901 and 1902. He then worked in the clothing industry. In the autumn of 1904 Hartwig became a workers' secretary in Hagen. In this capacity he founded the Evangelical People's Association for Hagen and the surrounding area and was involved in the Christian trade unions . In 1904 he also took part in the first social training course in Berlin.

From 1905 to 1907 he was editor of the newspaper Das Reich in Berlin, then from 1907 to 1909 of the Goslarer Nachrichten . In addition, from 1905 to 1907 he served as the second central chairman of the Central Association of Christian Tailors in Germany. In addition, he was involved in advertising and organizing the Protestant youth association . From 1909 to 1912 he worked as party secretary of the Christian Social Party in Bremen and was part of the main board of his party. In 1912 he became managing director and lecturer at the Protestant social school in Bethel near Bielefeld .

After the First World War , Hartwig joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). In 1920 he was elected to the Reichstag for the first time, to which he was ultimately to belong for five consecutive terms until July 1932. In addition, Hartwig was a member of the main board of the DNVP, a member of the board of directors of the DNVP for the Minden-Münster-Lippe district, a local councilor in Gadderbaum and chairman of the National Workers' Committee of the DNVP. At the end of 1929 Hartwig left the DNVP together with other MPs and joined the newly established Christian Social People's Service .

Outside of party politics, Hartwig was the managing director of the Association of Protestant Workers and Trade Union Secretaries in Germany, District Manager of the Central Association of German Railway Workers, member of the board of the Church-Social Federation Lippe, and editor of the Evangelical Social Voices and of the messages for Evangelical secretaries as well as author of social policy and union writings.

literature

• 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 .
• Christian R. Homrichhausen: Social engagement of Protestant workers in Berlin and Brandenburg 1848–1973, associations - Protestant social school - Social academy - party - trade union (=  history . Volume 24 ). Frank & Timme GmbH, publishing house for scientific literature, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7329-0205-7 .
• Norbert Friedrich: “Raise the Christian-social flag!” Reinhard Mumm and the Christian-social movement (=  denomination and society . Band 14 ). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-17-014978-4 .
• Bernhard Olpen: Johann Karl Vietor (1861-1934). A German entrepreneur between colonialism, social issues and Christianity (=  contributions to European overseas history . Volume 102 ). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10837-9 .
• Günther Opitz: The Christian Social People's Service. Attempt by a Protestant party in the Weimar Republic (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 37, ISSN  0522-6643 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1969, (at the same time: Münster, University, dissertation, 1965).

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Hartwig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Emil Hartwig in the database of members of the Reichstag