Emil Sommer (Senator)

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Emil Sommer (born June 23, 1882 in Alt Obra (Province of Posen), † May 18, 1937 in Bremen ) was a German trade union secretary , politician (USPD, SPD) and Bremen senator .

biography

Sommer was the son of a brickworker. He attended elementary school and completed an apprenticeship as a brass caster . He later also worked as a lathe operator and was active in various places, including abroad. From 1906 he lived in Bremen.

He was buried in the Waller Friedhof , grave location FF 771.

politics

Sommer attended the trade union school in Berlin. In 1917 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD).

Soviet Republic

After the end of the First World War , Sommer was a supporter of the idea of ​​a council republic and the implementation of a Bremen council republic . Already on 6./7. November 1918, before the armistice, an action committee was founded in Bremen in the trade union building on Faulenstrasse , consisting of four USPD members ( Alfred Henke , Adam Frasunkiewicz , Karl Herold and Sommer) and three left-wing radicals ( Hans Brodmerkel , Adolf Dannat and Alfred Stockinger ) (the MSPD was excluded). The action committee was supplemented by the workers' and soldiers' council , consisting of more than 210 delegates from large companies and the soldiers' council. The council then took power in Bremen. The Soviet Republic was militarily defeated on February 4, 1919.

Union and politics

In 1919, Sommer became chairman of the local committee of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB). From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the Bremen National Assembly . In 1920 he was elected a member of the Bremen citizenship . In 1921 he took over the function of a syndic of the Bremen Chamber of Labor . Many union enterprises and organizations were founded through his participation. He also built the Volkshaus in the Walle district as a trade union building in 1926/28. Like most USPD members, he rejoined the SPD in 1922 .

From April 17, 1928 to March 6, 1933 he was in the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , headed by Mayor Martin Donandt (non-party), as senator responsible for the field of construction.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the National Socialists came to power , the SPD senators Sommer, Wilhelm Kaisen and Wilhelm Kleemann had to resign from their offices in early March 1933. Already from the 27./28. February 1933 saw the first waves of arrests by the police and SA auxiliary police. On April 18, there was an action by the National Socialist Company Cell Organization (NSBO) against the Volkshaus, in which five union chairmen, including Sommer and then ADGB chairman Oskar Schulze , were arrested. The fabricated allegations of financial misconduct turned out to be baseless. He was released from prison on August 5, 1933. After that he could no longer be politically active.

Honors

  • The Emil summer street in Bremen- Vahr was named in 1958 after him.

See also

literature

personal data
SURNAME Summer, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union secretary, politician (USPD, SPD), Member of the Bundestag and Bremen Senator
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Obra
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1937
Place of death Bremen