Friedrich Geyer

This article deals with the politician Friedrich Geyer. For other people see Fritz Geyer .

Friedrich August Karl Geyer (born March 12, 1853 in Großenhain ; † January 22, 1937 in Tharandt ) was a German politician ( SPD , USPD , KPD ).

USPD Board of Directors. December 5, 1919. Friedrich Geyer, first row, second from the right

Life and work

The son of a butcher learned to be a cigar worker after attending elementary school . Since 1882 he was self-employed as a cigar manufacturer. From 1890 to 1895 he was editor of the social democratic magazine voters and the Leipziger Volkszeitung , then until 1918 of the tobacco worker .

Geyer was married, his sons Fritz and Curt and his daughter-in-law Anna were also politicians (including a member of the Weimar National Assembly ). Friedrich-Geyer-Strasse in Meißen has been named after Geyer since 1945 .

SPD member of the Reichstag from Saxony from 1903. Geyer at the bottom right

Political party

Geyer belonged to the Social Democrats since 1871, to the Socialist Workers' Party from 1875 and to the SPD from 1890 and was chairman of the social democratic electoral association for Leipzig from the mid-1890s to 1902 and a member of the central control commission from October 1913 to 1916. In the dispute over war policy, he left the SPD and joined the newly founded USPD. At the end of 1920 he first took part in the unification of the USPD majority with the KPD to form the VKPD , which he left in 1921 after the internal party disputes over the “ March Action ”, and was elected to the party's central revision commission at the unification party congress. He first joined the Communist Working Group (KAG) to return to the USPD. In 1922 she finally returned to the SPD.

MP

From 1885 to 1897 Geyer was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament . He was a member of the Reichstag of the German Empire in 1886/87 and from 1890 to 1918. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly. Then he was again a member of the Reichstag until 1924 . Geyer belonged to the minority of 14 members of the SPD parliamentary group who refused to vote in favor of war credits from 1915 onwards.

Public offices

Geyer was from November 15, 1918 to January 16, 1919 Saxon Finance Minister in the Council of People's Representatives , also known as the Lipinski People's Government after chairman Richard Lipinski .

literature

• Friedrich Geyer . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 99.
• M. Globig: Geyer, Friedrich August Karl. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 416 f.
• Geyer, Friedrich . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Geyer in the Saxon Bibliography
• Geyer, Friedrich August Carl in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Friedrich Geyer biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Gunda Ulbricht: Friedrich Geyer (1853–1937) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .