Franz Josef Ehrhart

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Franz Josef Ehrhart

Franz Josef Ehrhart (born February 6, 1853 in Eschbach , † July 20, 1908 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Reichstag.

Life and work

Ehrhart grew up as the illegitimate child of a maid with foster parents in Eschbach before he was deported to Fürth in 1863 , where his mother had found a job. There he attended elementary school until 1866 and trained as an upholsterer. From 1869, his years of traveling took him through southern and central Germany. In 1877 he went abroad and was politically active in London , Brussels and Paris , which is why he was repeatedly expelled. In London he was the initiator of the newspaper Freiheit . He was imprisoned for three months in Mannheim in 1880 on a promotional trip for his newspaper and then lived in the city for the next few years.

In 1884 Ehrhart moved to Ludwigshafen am Rhein on the other side of the Rhine, where he founded a furniture and wallpapering business and got married. In 1895 he founded the Palatinate Post , which developed into the leading social democratic newspaper in the Palatinate. His funeral in 1908, which was attended by several thousand people, was the largest in the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein to date.

politics

In 1871 he met Johann Most in Nuremberg , who won him over to political activity. He was already a delegate at the 3rd German Workers' Day in Mainz in 1872 . He was active as a speaker in Baden and the Palatinate and two years later became chairman of the Baden-Alsatian-Palatinate committee of the Eisenacher wing. During his time abroad he was secretary of the communist workers' education association in London, of which Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were also members. In 1873 he settled in Kaiserslautern and represented the party group there at the 5th Congress of Social Democrats in Eisenach . In 1874 he was sentenced in Mannheim to two months' imprisonment because of an aggressive election call for August Bebel . In 1884 he ran for the first time for the Reichstag. From 1891, the so-called "red Count Palatine" led the newly founded SPD district of Pfalz. From 1889, Ehrhart was the first social democrat in the Ludwigshafen city ​​council and a Palatinate council. In addition, in 1893 he became a member of the Bavarian State Parliament and in 1898 for the Reichstag constituency Palatinate (Bavaria) 1 of the Reichstag .

literature

  • bh: Franz Josef Ehrhart † . In: The True Jacob . No. 575 of August 4, 1908, p. 5890. Digitized
  • Erich Schneider: The beginnings of the socialist labor movement in the Rhine Palatinate 1864-1899 . Phil. Diss. Mainz 1856, p. 53 ff.
  • Peter Ruf: Ludwigshafen deputies in the state parliament, Reichstag and Bundestag (= publications of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein city archive. Vol. 16). Ludwigshafen City Archives, Ludwigshafen 1993, ISBN 3-924667-20-9 .
  • City archive of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein (ed.): History of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Vol. 1., From the beginnings to the end of the First World War . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-35-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erich Schneider and Horst Bartel , Wolfgang Schröder , Gustav Seeber , Heinz Wolter: The Social Democrat 1879–1890 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 239, note 38.
  2. ↑ Kurt Baumann: Pfälzer Lebensbilder, first volume, 1964, p. 273 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Ehrhart, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschbach
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1908
Place of death Ludwigshafen am Rhein