Ernst Braune (politician, 1853)

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Ernst Braune (born December 29, 1853 in Friedeburg (Saale) ; † February 24, 1942 in Radeberg ) was a consumer cooperative and social democratic local politician in Radeberg.

Memorial stone for Ernst Braune in Radeberg

Brown was the son of a miner. He attended elementary school and then learned the miller's trade. Then he went on the journeyman's journey through Germany. In the 1880s he was the owner of a shop in Freiberg . He then became a warehouse keeper in the Pieschen consumer association in 1894 and in Radeberg from 1898 to 1920. As the warehouse keeper of the consumer sales point, he acquired citizenship in Radeberg. In 1896 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1905 he was elected to the Radeberg city council as the first SPD member. Braune was a member of the Saxon People's Chamber from 1919 to 1920 . He rose to become a member of the SPD Regional Executive on in Saxony, was after the seizure of power of the Nazi Party arrested (NSDAP) in 1933 and forced to give up his political and charitable activities.

In 1912, Braune founded the non-profit housing cooperative Radeberg (today the Radeberg housing cooperative), which, among other things, built the “ Ernst-Braune-Siedlung ”, which is named after him, as a workers' housing estate . A street in this settlement is named Ernst-Braune-Straße in his honor .

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