Friedrich Lesche

Friedrich Lesche

Friedrich Lesche (born June 30, 1863 in Göttingen ; † July 19, 1933 in Hamburg ) was a German SPD politician . In the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic he was a member of the Reichstag and member of the first board of directors of the cooperative-trade union insurance Volksfürsorge .

Live and act

Lesche attended the public school in Hanover from 1870 to 1877 . From 1877 to 1880 he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter . Until 1894 he worked as a carpenter journeyman. From 1894 to 1900 he worked as an employee at the general health insurance company in Altona . In 1883 he joined the SPD and became a union member. He was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein 10 in the 13th legislative period from 1903 to 1907, from 1919 to 1920 and from 1920 to 1925. Lesche was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1910 to 1921.

From 1899 to 1905 and from 1916 to 1933 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Hamburger Konsum-, Bau- und Sparverein "Produktion" eGmbH.

Lesche was a founder of the trade union-cooperative insurance company Volksfürsorge , Hamburg, whose first board member he became with Adolph von Elm . Volksfürsorge started its business operations on July 1, 1913. Lesche was a member of the board there until his retirement in September 1932. He saw Volksfürsorge AG as a cooperative enterprise , despite the form of the AG that it had chosen . He named the large-scale purchasing society of German consumer associations and the Volksfürsorge in the same breath as socialist in character.

Lesche was a Protestant denomination and has left the church.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 115.
2. ^ Heinrich Kaufmann: The large purchasing company of German consumer associations mb H. GEG. For the 25th anniversary 1894–1919 . Hamburg 1919, p. 560. Greetings from Friedrich Lesche as a member of the Volksfürsorge board at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the GEG.

Fonts

• Friedrich Lesche: The course of politics in the Hanseatic cities. In: Socialist monthly books. Issue 15–17, 1911 ( digitized version )

literature

• Article Lesche, Friedrich . In: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 (short version on the Internet as a biography of Friedrich Lesche . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) ).
• Ursula Büttner : Political new beginning in difficult times. Election and work of the first democratic citizenship of Hamburg 1919–21. State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-929728-07-9 , p. 121.

Web links

• Friedrich Lesche in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Friedrich Lesche's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)
• Friedrich Lesche's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Friedrich Lesche's biography . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)