Franz Laufkötter

Franz Laufkötter

Franz Laufkötter (born November 2, 1857 in Altenbeken in Westphalia , † November 15, 1925 in Münster ) was a German politician (SPD).

Live and act

Laufkötter attended a humanistic high school in Warburg . Then he attended the Catholic teacher training college in Düren. At times he devoted himself to extensive private studies, which mainly concentrated on the areas of economics, sociology, social history and social philosophy. In 1880 he took up a position as a teacher at the Michaeliskirchenschule in Hamburg . Three years later he taught at the Krupp works school in Essen . There were also lectures and teaching courses in workers' education associations in all parts of Germany. As early as the 1880s, Laufkötter began to become more involved in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) under the influence of his older brother , for example in a leading position in the party's consumer cooperative . During the socialist laws , he was active as an orator and writer for his party. He also became a permanent contributor to socialist and trade union newspapers and magazines at home and abroad. He was also the author of various writings with sociological and socialist content.

In January 1923, Laufkötter entered the Reichstag as a replacement for a retired member of his party . In the elections in May and December 1924 he ran successfully for constituency 34 (Hamburg). He then belonged to the German parliament until his death in 1925. Then Laufkötter's mandate was only continued for the rest of the legislative period until the end of 1926 by his party friend Friedrich Paeplow and after his departure by Adolf Biedermann .

Within the SPD, Laufkötter was an extreme advocate of nationalist positions. After the Amsterdam Congress of 1904, he openly advocated imposing an immigration ban on workers of certain races and nations in the German Reich ( “If you want to pursue present-day politics and not make dreams of the future, you have to distinguish between workers who come from a cultural country and those who belong to backward nations. ” ).

Honors

• The Laufkötterweg was named after him in Hamburg-Horn

Fonts

• The German consumer cooperative movement in the World War , 1916.
• The socialization of our economic life. A course disposition , 1921.
• Socialism as utopia and as a science. A lecture plan , Berlin 1922.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Laufkötter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franz Laufkötter in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Socialist monthly books, 1904, p. 221.