Ewald Budde

Ewald Budde

Ewald Budde (born April 18, 1873 in Lüdenscheid ; † November 12, 1966 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After attending elementary school in Lüdenscheid in the years 1879 to 1887 learned Budde, the locksmith . He then earned his living as a tool fitter. In the 1890s Budde joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He also became a member of the German Metalworkers' Association .

From 1902 to probably 1919 he was chairman of the SPD constituency organization Altena - Iserlohn . In 1910 he was elected union secretary of the metal workers' association and in 1911 he became a member of the city council of Lüdenscheid. In addition, Budde also wrote as an editor for social democratic newspapers such as the Volksstimme or the Volkszeitung .

During the November Revolution he was chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Lüdenscheid. On February 1, 1919, Budde took over the post of managing director of the consumer and production cooperative “Unity” in Lüdenscheid. Shortly afterwards he was elected to the Weimar National Assembly as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 18 (Arnsberg) .

Between August 1919 and 1933 Budde was a full-time alderman and second mayor in Hohenlimburg . Between 1923 and 1925 he also took over the office of first mayor. Between 1921 and 1933 he was a member of the district committee and district deputy of the Iserlohn district.

At the beginning of the Nazi era , he lost his post in local government and was briefly imprisoned. From 1935 he lived in Lüdenscheid.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 47.

Web links

• Ewald Budde in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Ewald Budde . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Biography of Ewald Budde . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)