Franz Kotzke
Franz Kotzke (born June 2, 1868 in Berlin ; † January 4, 1931 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1920 to 1930, except for a few months in 1924, he was a member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic .
Life
Kotzke was born the son of a master shoemaker and first attended elementary school in Berlin, then middle school. After graduating from school, he learned the trade of cloth weaver and then worked in a carpet weaving mill in Berlin. In 1893 he began to be active in trade unions and politics. In 1906 he was elected Gauleiter of the Northeast Germany District of the German Textile Workers Association . For the textile workers union he took part in congresses in Vienna, London and Amsterdam.
politics
Kotzke worked as a city councilor in Berlin from 1903 to 1909 and from 1910 he was a candidate for the SPD's Reichstag for the constituency of Guben-Lübben , but was not elected to parliament. After the end of the First World War he was a member of the Reichswirtschaftsstelle für Textilindustrie for several years. Kotzke was first elected to the Reichstag in 1920 in constituency 5 (Frankfurt / Oder). He was not re-elected in the first election in 1924, and only in the second election in December 1924 was he able to move into parliament again, to which he also belonged in the fourth legislative period from 1928 to 1930.
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 .
Web links
- Franz Kotzke in the database of members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kotzke, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 1931 |
| Place of death | Berlin |