Franz Karger (politician, 1877)
Franz Karger (born November 6, 1877 in Wanowitz near Leobschütz , Upper Silesia , † February 4, 1943 in Hindenburg , Upper Silesia) was a German politician.
He began his professional career in the ironworks in Königshütte ( Chorzów ), where he also received his master's certificate as a blacksmith. In 1902 he married Marie Balbina Matuschik, with whom he raised six children. Karger was involved in the trade unions and from 1910 was chairman of the union cartel in Königshütte. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and switched to club work. In August 1915 he was an employee of the Metal Workers' Association in Katowice ( Katowice ). After participating in the First World War , he became union secretary and chairman of the Oberschlesien-West district cartel in Hindenburg ( Zabrze ) in January 1919 . Between 1919 and 1922 he sat for the SPD in the Prussian state parliament .
During the plebiscite he campaigned for the rights of the Germans and appeared, among other things, as a spokesman for German citizens towards the French authorities. After Katowice fell to Poland, the family moved to Hindenburg. Here Karger was nominated as director of the employment office. He was in Stresemann's entourage at the Geneva Conference, at which in 1922 minority rights for the divided Upper Silesia were resolved. On the second day after the so-called takeover of power in 1933, Karger was removed from his position as director of the employment office. His granddaughter Renata Schumann lives near Rostock.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 540.
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| SURNAME | Karger, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wanowitz near Leobschütz , Upper Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1943 |
| Place of death | Hindenburg , Upper Silesia |