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Election poster of the SPD for the Reichstag election in 1928 with the candidates Wilhelm Bock , Kurt Rosenfeld , August Frölich , Mathilde Wurm , Georg Dietrich , Karl Hermann , August Siemsen , Elsa Niviera and Erich Mäder
Title page of the leaflet "Last Roll Call"

Erich Kurt Mäder (born March 5, 1897 in Chemnitz , † January 16, 1934 in Altenburg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Erich Maiden's father and mother died very early. In 1917 he became an assistant teacher in Thonhausen and in 1919 he passed the teacher examination. From 1919 to 1920 he worked as a school administrator in Rositz and Zschernitz . After passing the employment test, he worked as a teacher in Zschernitz from 1920 to 1922, then as a teacher at the East School in Altenburg. In 1926 his travelogue "Between Leningrad and Baku" appeared, through which he became known to the public.

Mäder was a member of the DDP from 1920 and joined the SPD in 1921, for which he sat on the Altenburg city council. He was also a member of the community of proletarian freethinkers and from 1926 until it was banned in 1933 a member of the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold .

In the Reichstag elections in 1928 and 1930 , he stood as a candidate for the SPD in constituency 12 (Thuringia), but did not achieve the necessary percentage of votes to be able to enter the Reichstag . In December 1929 he was elected as a member of the Thuringian state parliament, to which he belonged from January 1930 to 1933.

Together with Freiwirt Hans Schumann , Erich Mäder fought within the SPD at the beginning of the 1930s to discuss currency policy and to reorient the party on the question of gold backing. At the 1931 SPD party congress in Leipzig (May 31 - June 5), he introduced a motion on monetary policy. According to the minutes, this motion No. 10 was not put to the vote. Allegedly, Mäder was turned off the microphone in the subsequent discussion. Only in his closing remarks did Fritz Tarnow explain why the motion could not be voted on (for quote, see discussion). In mid-1932 he published the leaflet Last Appeal to the party authorities of the SPD, in which he and Schumann again called for a discussion of the monetary policy causes of the economic crisis.

After the National Socialists came to power , Mäder was taken into " protective custody " on May 2, 1933 and detained in the SA barracks in Altenburg until June . At the end of July 1933 he was dismissed from the Thuringian civil service on the basis of the law to restore the civil service. In December 1933 he was arrested again, again taken to the SA barracks, where he was so badly mistreated that he died in January 1934 as a result of the torture. The gravity of the crime is seen as the National Socialists' revenge because Erich Mäder had embarrassedly interrogated Adolf Hitler in the state parliament. He was buried in the Altenburg cemetery.

Honors

An Erich Mäder school in Altenburg, which was named in the GDR, was given its name again in 1997, which it had been stripped of after the fall of the Wall. In Altenburg (1950) and Windischleuba streets were named after him.

Historical evaluation of the gold standard

In the historical assessment, economic historians agree that the gold standard was a transmission mechanism for the spread of the global economic crisis and contributed significantly to the development and length of the Great Depression. Over time, the monetary policy flaw became apparent. Little by little, all states suspended the gold standard and adopted a reflation policy . The almost unanimous view is that there is a clear temporal and substantive connection between the global move away from the gold standard and the beginning of the economic recovery.

Publications

  • Erich Mäder: Theory and Practice of the Nazis and the Tasks of the Iron Front , Altenburg / Thür: Verlag von Stritzke, undated
  • Erich Mäder and Hans Schumann: War of the Crisis !: Proposals for job creation, Altenburg / Thür .: Verlag Stritzke & Co., undated, probably 1932
  • Erich Mäder: Between Leningrad and Baku: What did a proletarian free thinker see in Soviet Russia? , 3rd edition 11. – 15. Tausend.- Windischleuba: Verlag Hans Schumann, 1927, 63 pp.
  • Erich Mäder and Hans Schumann (eds.): Labor and monetary policy . Publication series No. 6, 7th and 8th thousand, Verlag von Stritzke & Co., Altenburg Thüringen undated, probably 1932
  • Erich Mäder and Hans Schumann: Working Class and Monetary Policy . Series of publications No. 1, Verlag von Stritzke & Co., Altenburg / Thuringia, undated, probably 1931
  • Erich Mäder and Hans Schumann: Last Appeal, Altenburg / Thür .: Verlag von Stritzke & Co., 1932, (Labor and Monetary Policy No. 6)

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952: Biographisches Handbuch (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, large series . Volume 1 , no. 4 ). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 464-465 .
  • Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Schüren, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , p. 215.
  • Mario Hesselbarth, Eberhart Schulz, Manfred Weißbecker (eds.): Lived ideas. Socialists in Thuringia. Biographical sketches , Jena 2006.

Web links

Commons : Erich Mäder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich-Mäder-Schule Altenburg ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maeder.schule-altenburg.de
  2. ^ A b Hans Schumann: Against the current
  3. ↑ Minutes of the SPD party congress in 1931, page 64 (PDF; 23.9 MB)
  4. ↑ Minutes of the SPD party congress in 1931, page 85 (PDF; 23.9 MB)
  5. ↑ Why Weimar had to fail ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bernd-hercksen.de
  6. ^ History of Altenburg
  7. ↑ The Altenburg Cemetery - One of the oldest city cemeteries still in use
  8. ^ Peter J. Montiel, International Macroeconomics , John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2009, ISBN 9781405183864 , p. 154
  9. ↑ Randall E. Parker: Reflections on the Great Depression , Elgar publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-84376-335-2 , p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Mäder, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mäder, Erich Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1934
Place of death Altenburg