Eugene Imbs

Eugen Imbs (born August 10, 1878 in Strasbourg ; † November 1, 1955 there ) was a German politician ( SPD Alsace-Lorraine ).

Live and act

Eugen Imbs attended elementary school and the episcopal grammar school in Strasbourg. He did an apprenticeship as a carpenter and was a journeyman carpenter until 1907. From April 1907 to 1918 he was an agitation officer of the General Commission for Alsace-Lorraine, based in Strasbourg, and from 1901 to 1913 chairman of the branch of the Carpenters Association in Strasbourg.

Eugen Imbs was a member of the municipal council or city council in Strasbourg from 1905 to 1908 and from 1914 to 1918.

In the first (and only) election to the Second Chamber of the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , he ran as a candidate for the SPD in the Strasbourg III constituency. In the first ballot, 4,535 votes were cast in the constituency of the 5,559 eligible voters. Imbs accounted for 1,806, the liberal candidate Dr. Leoni 1.617, the center candidate Kiesser 658 and Dr. Kappler 376 votes. In the second ballot, Imbs was the only candidate and received 3,525 of the 2,994 votes cast. Eugen Imbs was a member of the state parliament until 1918.

Since 1907 he ran unsuccessfully for the SPD in every Reichstag election.

choice	Constituency
Reichstag election 1907	Alsace-Lorraine constituency 6 (Schlettstadt)
Reichstag election 1912	Alsace-Lorraine constituency 6 (Schlettstadt)

After Alsace became French again, in 1918 he became a member of the socialist party SFIO , secretary of the trade union syndicate in Strasbourg and president of the Union des syndicats ouvriers du Bas-Rhin . From 1919 to 1955 he was politically active as conseiller municipal and from 1925 to 1929 as Adjoint du Maire in Strasbourg. He later became an officer in the Legion of Honor .

Works

Critical reflections on the World War 1939. Written by Eugène Imbs in the Evacuation 1941 , Strasbourg sd [1947?].

literature

• Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mulhouse 1911, page 183

Web links

• Biography of Eugen Imbs . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Biography of Eugen Imbs . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)