Fritz Kahl (politician)

Fritz Kahl (born October 4, 1859 in Bramfeld (now Hamburg), † July 3, 1942 in Dortmund ) was a German trade unionist and social democratic politician . From 1919 to 1932 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Life and accomplishments

Fritz Kahl was born on October 4, 1859 in Bramfeld, the son of a straw decker . During his apprenticeship as a bricklayer from 1875 to 1878 he began to be politically active and in 1877 supported Wilhelm Hasenclever's election campaign in Altona . After his apprenticeship, he went on a hike and did his military service. Since 1885 he was a member of the Fachverein der Maurer , a union-like organization. From 1887 he worked as a bricklayer in Duisburg and founded a branch of the professional association there. In the same year he also joined the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD), the predecessor of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

For the Reichstag election in 1890 , he ran for a seat in the constituency of Duisburg-Mülheim-Ruhrort, but was defeated by the national liberal candidate Friedrich Hammacher . In the elections in 1893 and 1898 he ran again unsuccessfully, but was able to more than double the number of votes for the SPD. Also in 1898 he became a travel agent for the Essen-Duisburg SPD organ Weckruf . On November 15, 1900, he was fined 30 marks after trying to convince Dutch workers not to allow themselves to be used as scabs. In the meantime he was promoted to mason foreman. He was elected district manager of the Central Association of Masons in Westphalia and moved to its headquarters in Dortmund. There he participated in the establishment of the social democratic association for the Reichstag elections in Dortmund-Hörde in 1906.

He was several times chairman of the union cartel and managing director of the union house GmbH. From 1911 to 1919 he was a city councilor in Dortmund. Upon cleavage of the SPD, he remained in the MSPD , after the November Revolution it belonged to the workers' and soldiers from Dortmund as chairman of the Transport Committee and member of the nutrition committee of. This worked closely with the existing management and Fritz Kahl was 1919-1928 unpaid City Council in magistrate of the city of Dortmund. He became a member of the constituent Prussian state assembly and was a member of the Prussian state parliament for three legislative periods from 1921 to 1932. In addition, he continued to be involved in local politics in housing. Fritz Kahl died on July 3, 1942 at the age of 83 in Dortmund.

The city of Dortmund has named a street after Fritz Kahl in the Brünninghausen district .

literature

• Ingeborg Bohrmann: Kahl, Fritz . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 2 . Klartext, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-677-4 , p. 72 ff .
• Ralf Lützenkirchen: The social democratic association for the Reichstag constituency Dortmund-Hörde. A contribution to the history of parties (=  monographs on the history of Dortmund and the Grafschaft Mark . Volume 2 ). Publishing house of the historical association for Dortmund and the Grafschaft Mark e. V., 1970, ZDB -ID 533346-5 , p. 54 (At the same time: Dissertation, University of Cologne, 1970).
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 103f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ingeborg Bohrmann: Kahl, Fritz . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 2 . Klartext, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-677-4 , p. 72 ff .