Friedrich Seger

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Johann Friedrich Seger

Johann Friedrich Seger (born February 25, 1867 in Wollbach , Baden , † April 29, 1928 in Leipzig ) was a German politician ( SPD , USPD ) and journalist.

Life and work

Friedrich Seger grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

After attending elementary school, Seger completed an apprenticeship as a tailor in Wollbach from 1881 to 1883. He was the father of the later member of the Reichstag, Gerhart Seger , the author of the memorial report about his experiences in the Oranienburg concentration camp that appeared in 1934 in exile . Seger owned a very valuable private library that contained rare documents from the Leipzig Social Democrats. This was destroyed in the Dessau paper mill in 1934.

Political career

The Leipzig agitation committee 1903. On the photo from left to right: Fritz Nüchtern, Friedrich Seger, Gustav Orbel, Karl Schrörs and Richard Lipinski

Since 1884 Seger belonged to the SPD, in which he held functions at the local level from 1893 and at the regional level from 1905. In 1887 he joined the union. From 1892 to 1898 he was the shop steward for the Leipzig tailors and from 1894 to 1898 for Saxony. From 1901 to 1928 he was the editor of the Leipziger Volkszeitung , which was one of the social democratic daily newspapers with the highest circulation and one of the most important mouthpieces of the left wing of the party. After the party split over the question of the truce policy and the war credits , he joined the majority of the local party organization in the newly founded USPD in 1917, in which Seger, an expert on local political issues, was the dominant figure of the Leipzig party organization together with Richard Lipinski . Here he worked in the party program commission in 1919 . When the USPD mostly merged with the KPD in 1920 , he did not go along this path, but returned to the SPD in 1922 with most of the members who remained in the USPD after 1920, where he played an important role in the Leipzig SPD until his death , among other things, also in the party program commission until 1924 .

MP

Seger was a city councilor in Leipzig from 1911 to 1928. From 1915 to 1918 he was a member of the state parliament in the Kingdom of Saxony . From November 14, 1918 to February 21, 1919 he was chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Leipzig . In December 1918 he was one of the chairmen of the Reichsrätekongress . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . He was then a member of the Reichstag until his death .

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

Commons : Friedrich Seger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Rudloff, Mike Schmeitzner: Such vermin also exist in Leipzig, page 72
  2. ^ Gerhart Seger: Travel Diary of a German Emigrant, Zurich, 1936, Europa Verlag, page 55
  3. ↑ Quoted from: Michael Rudloff, Thomas Adam and Jürgen Schlimper: Leipzig-Cradle of German Social Democracy, page 114
personal data
SURNAME Seger, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seger, Johann Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, USPD), MdR and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Wollbach (Kandern)
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1928
Place of death Leipzig