Emil Maier (politician)
Emil Maier (born August 11, 1876 in Dunningen , † August 14, 1932 in Freudenstadt ) was a German politician ( SPD ).
Life
Emil Maier was born the son of a miller. After graduating from elementary school in Dunningen in 1890 and attending grammar school in Rottweil , he began an apprenticeship as typesetter in 1893, which he completed with the journeyman's examination. During his apprenticeship he had joined the book printers' association , for which he was involved in the following years. After completing his training, he first went hiking in southern Germany and Switzerland. He then did military service from 1897 to 1899 with the 7th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 142 in Mulhouse . From 1899 to 1904 he worked as a typesetter, from 1901 in Mannheim , where he worked as an editor for Volksstimme from 1904 to December 1907 . He joined the SPD in 1893 and was employed as party secretary of the Social Democrats in Heidelberg from January 1908 to 1919 . From 1914 to 1917 he took part in the First World War as a soldier in the 1st Mobile Landsturm Battalion . In 1916 he was seriously injured.
From 1909 to 1913 Maier was a member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly in the Grand Duchy of Baden . From 1912 to 1931 he was a city councilor in Heidelberg and there from 1919 to 1931 director of the municipal economic office. He also acted as a member of the Badenwerk's supervisory board from 1920 .
During the November Revolution and then until 1919, Maier was chairman of the Heidelberg workers 'and soldiers' council and a member of the state committee of workers 'and soldiers' councils in Baden . In January 1919 he was elected to the constitutional state assembly of the Republic of Baden and in the following years he was a member of the Baden state parliament until his death . There he held the position of First Vice President from April 1919 to June 1931. From 1919 to 1931 he was a member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group, which he chaired from 1928 to 1931. In the Reichstag elections in June 1920 , he ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag .
Maier was State Councilor in the Baden government from November 23, 1925 to November 23, 1926 and from November 20, 1929 to June 26, 1931. From June 26, 1931 until his death, he was the country's interior minister. During his parliamentary and ministerial activities, he had to fend off numerous hostilities from the National Socialists .
Emil Maier had been married to Elisabeth Ottmann since 1890 and had an adopted daughter.
Honors
- 1946: Emil-Maier-Strasse in Heidelberg-Bergheim
See also
literature
- Michael Braun: Emil Maier 1876–1932: A political biography. Series of publications by the Heidelberg City Archives, Issue 7. Brigitte Guderjahn Verlag, Heidelberg 1997.
Web links
- Biography of Emil Maier (politician) . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
- Emil Maier (politician) in the online version of the files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
- Emil Maier at the community of Dunningen
- Emil Maier at the SPD local association in Dunningen
- Speeches by Emil Maier in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emil Maier. Heidelberger Geschichtsverein eV, accessed on December 2, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maier, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Council of State, Minister of State, MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dunningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1932 |
| Place of death | Freudenstadt |