Fritz Herbert

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Fritz Herbert (born June 7, 1860 in Artern , Sangerhausen district ; † May 24, 1925 in Stettin ) was the first member of the Reichstag for the Pomeranian Social Democrats , a member of the consumer cooperative and a member of the supervisory board of the large purchasing company Deutscher Consumvereine mb H. (GEG), a trade unionist and publisher.

Fritz Herbert

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Fritz Herbert attended middle school, the community school in Artern, without a degree and learned typesetter and printer from 1874 to 1878 . Then he became a journeyman on the move . He worked in different places in Germany, in Austria-Hungary and in Switzerland. In 1882 he came to Stettin.

In 1882 he joined the SPD. From 1885 he was the owner of a printing press in Szczecin. In 1885 he published the first edition of the newspaper Stettiner Volksbote , which appeared from 1892 under the title Volksbote as an organ for the interests of the working population of the Pomeranian province . At first he did all the work: author , editor , printer and travel agent . Until 1899 he was also the publisher of the paper. He was also editor of the newspaper until 1903 and again from 1911 until his death. Initially, the paper appeared twice a week, then from 1893 as a daily newspaper.

In 1890 Herbert was the founder and head of the Stettin union cartel .

Between 1890 and 1894 Herbert was a member of the Control Commission of the Social Democrats.

In 1887 he ran for the first time for the Social Democrats for the German Reichstag for the constituency of Stettin . The SPD led the election campaign under the motto: No man and no penny for this system . At an election meeting on February 7, 1887 in Stettin-Grünhof, Herbert gave a speech to about 4,000 people about the position of the Workers' Party on the military question: We do not want reinforcements, but a reduction in the army . Regarding insurance legislation: We want a solution to the social question based on democratic principles . Police Commissioner Schmidt saw this as a social democratic movement aimed at overthrowing and dissolved the meeting. There were tumultuous clashes in which a military patrol injured a worker so badly that he died on the way to the hospital. This election event had the consequence that the small state of siege was declared over Szczecin and the surrounding area. The reason was that the social democratic agitation had intensified in a dangerous way. 52 Social Democrats were expelled from Szczecin and the surrounding area. Herbert received his deportation on February 21, 1887, the day of the Reichstag election . He then lived in Stargard in Pomerania . The Volksbote was now printed here and distributed in Stettin and the provinces; illegal in the area of ​​the Little State of Siege. Herbert was sentenced to three months in prison for several press trials. He was put up again as a candidate by the Social Democrats for the Reichstag election in February 1890 . He was detained during the campaign period to serve his sentence. On April 13, 1890, his imprisonment in Stargard was over and Herbert returned to Stettin, where tens of thousands of residents gave him a triumphant reception at the train station. In the legislative period from 1893 to 1898, Fritz Herbert was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Stettin 4 (City of Stettin).

From 1900 until his death Herbert was a member of the city ​​council of Szczecin.

In 1895 Fritz Herbert was elected to the administration of the Stettiner Konsum- und Sparvereins for the first time . From 1901 to 1907 Fritz Herbert was a member of the supervisory board of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine mbH, (GEG) in Hamburg.

In 1904, Fritz Herbert was an employer assessor at the Stettin Trade Court. In 1914 he became a member of the district executive committee and the education committee of the SPD for Pomerania. During the November Revolution , Herbert was a member of the Central Council of the German Socialist Republic elected by the Reichsrätekongress .

From 1919 until his death in 1925, Fritz Herbert was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Fritz Herbert wrote the play Herrenrechte , the performance of which was banned by the censors. With his Marseillaise of the Pomeranian workers , Herbert advocated the general goals of law and freedom , fair wages and work for everyone . It was a regionalized version of the workers' Marseillaise , which was particularly motivated by direct addressing and the mention of the special Pomeranian characteristics.

Herbert was a Protestant and has left the church.

Honors

In Stettin, Fritz Herbert-Allee was named after him until it was renamed Horst Wessel -Allee after taking power in 1933 .

literature

  • Heinrich Kaufmann : The large purchasing company of German consumer associations mb H. GEG. For the 25th anniversary 1894–1919. Hamburg 1919.
  • Werner Lamprecht: Fritz Herbert, first member of the Reichstag for the Pomeranian Social Democrats. In: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald (ed.): Pomerania - history, culture, science. 1st Colloquium on Pomeranian History, November 13-15, 1990. Greifswald 1991, pp. 187-192, especially p. 189, ISBN 3-86006-038-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Martin Wehrmann : The Pomeranian newspapers and magazines in old and new times. Society for Newspaper and Book Printing in Pomerania, Pyritz 1936, p. 87.
  2. Cf. Szczecin Voivodeship Archives, Oberpräsidium No. 3171, Bl. 105 f .; Quoted from Werner Lamprecht: Fritz Herbert, first member of the Reichstag for the Pomeranian Social Democrats. In: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald (ed.): Pomerania - history, culture, science. 1st Colloquium on Pomeranian History, November 13-15 , 1990. Greifswald 1991, ISBN 3-86006-038-4 , p. 189.
  3. Greifswalder Volkszeitung, May 27, 1925, p. 13. Quoted from Werner Lamprecht: Fritz Herbert, first member of the Reichstag for the Pomeranian Social Democrats. In: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald (ed.): Pomerania - history, culture, science. 1st Colloquium on Pomeranian History, November 13-15 , 1990. Greifswald 1991, ISBN 3-86006-038-4 , p. 189.
  4. ^ Fritz Herbert: The Social Democracy in Pomerania. A historical account of the social democratic movement from 1869–92 . With an appendix: Marseillaise of the Pomeranian Workers . Stettin 1893, p. 16.
  5. Beatrix W. Bouvier : The Marseillaise . In: Fritz von Holthoon and Marcel van der Linden (editors): Internationalism in the Labor Movement 1830–1840 . Volume I, p. 160. EJ Brill, Leiden [et al.] 1988, ISBN 90-04-08633-1 .
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