Ewald Vogtherr

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Ewald Vogtherr (around 1912)

Ewald Vogtherr (born November 2, 1859 in Landeshut , Lower Silesia ; † February 13, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German social democratic politician, member of the Reichstag (1893–1898, 1912 and since 1920) and Minister of State for Justice in the Free State of Braunschweig (1922–1923) .

Live and act

Vogtherr attended secondary school and graduated from college. He then worked as a clerk until 1888, after which he was a self-employed businessman in Berlin and Stettin . Also in 1888, Vogtherr joined the SPD . In addition, like his father, he was active in the free thinker movement at an early age . In 1889 Vogtherr was the keynote speaker at the first major youth consecration in Berlin. In his speech he spread a monistic worldview and supplemented this with demands for more social justice. Vogtherr was a member of the German Reichstag for the first time from 1893 to 1898 as a member of the constituency of Berlin 3. He was also a city councilor in Berlin from 1890 to November 6, 1899 and in Stettin from 1901 to 1906. Since 1910 he was a full-time author in Wernigerode , Dresden and Berlin and wrote for various social democratic papers. He was also the editor of freethinking magazines. In 1912 he was again a member of the Reichstag as a member of the constituency of Stettin 4 (city district of Stettin). Because of his political views, Vogtherr was sentenced to prison terms several times, most recently to six months for insulting majesty . From the beginning, Vogtherr was a critic of the SPD's war policy. In 1915 he was a member of the international Zimmerwald conference of war opponents. In 1916 he joined the Social Democratic Working Group in the Reichstag and in 1917 the USPD . During the November Revolution, Vogtherr became Undersecretary of State in the Reichsmarineamt . From 1920 Vogtherr was again a member of the Reichstag . In 1920 he took over the editor-in-chief of the USPD central organ, the workers' newspaper Freiheit . For a short time he was Minister of State for Justice in Braunschweig from November 1922 until his death . In addition to his political activity in the narrower sense, Vogtherr was a board member of the German Peace Society in 1919 and, since 1914, a board member of the Federation of Free Religious Congregations and the German Freethinkers Association.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 85 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck and Günter Scheel (eds.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 632

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personal data
SURNAME Vogtherr, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, USPD, DFG), MdR and Minister of State for Justice in the Free State of Braunschweig
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH State hat , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1923
Place of death Berlin