Fritz Kunert

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Fritz Kunert (born September 15, 1850 in Altlandsberg , † November 26, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD , USPD ).

Life and work

Kunert, originally Protestant faith, was visited after the completion of primary school from 1867 to 1870, the teacher training college in Kyritz and then worked as an elementary school teacher. After turning to socialism, he left the Evangelical Church.

Kunert was with Marie , geb. Bomb, married, who later also became a member of the Reichstag.

Political party

Group photograph at the end of 1919 with members of the USPD party executive and other prominent representatives of the Independent Social Democrats on the occasion of a visit by Friedrich Adler (fourth from left), a leading representative of Austrian social democracy. Among those pictured: Arthur Crispien , Wilhelm Dittmann , Friedrich Adler, Richard Lipinski , Wilhelm Bock , Alfred Henke , Curt Geyer , Fritz Zubeil , Hugo Haase , Fritz Kunert, Georg Ledebour , Arthur Stadthagen , Emanuel Wurm

Kunert was originally a member of the SPD. From June 12, 1888 to 1889, he was a member of the Berlin city council . In 1889 he succeeded Bruno Geiser as editor of the "Schlesische Nachrichten" in Breslau . Before the First World War he was the manager of a workers' youth home in Brunnenstrasse in Berlin for a few years . In the course of the split in the First World War , he joined the USPD in 1917. When the USPD majority united with the KPD in 1920 , he belonged to the minority that maintained the party. In May 1922 he returned to the SPD.

Member of the Reichstag

Kunert belonged to the Reichstag of the Empire from 1890 to 1893, 1896 to 1907 and again from 1909 to 1918 for the constituency “ Merseburg 4- Haale-Saalkreis”. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly , and then again a member of the Reichstag until 1924. In the National Assembly he campaigned in particular for the abolition of all state benefits to the churches and religious communities. He also called for a strict separation of church and state by including a. the privilege of religious communities to perform religious acts in hospitals, prisons and in the military is eliminated. In addition, on July 16, 1919, he applied to the National Assembly for the nationalization of the entire health system. However, he was unable to assert himself with these demands.

Publications

  • To commemorate the celebration of youth acceptance in the free religious community in Berlin . Rubenow, Berlin 1870.
  • Long-term goals. A festive address was given at the foundation celebration of the membership of the German Carpenters Association in Breslau in July 1892 . Wörlein & Comp., Nuremberg 1892. Digitized
  • The general elementary school . In: The new time . Review of intellectual and public life . 10.1891-92, Volume 2 (1892), Issue 43, pp. 518-526. Digitized
  • The sacred vehicle of militarism. According to court martial findings . Wörlein & Comp., Nuremberg 1894.
  • From our modern art life . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life . 12.1893-94, Volume 1 (1894), Issue 14, pp. 428-436. Digitized
  • Cosima Wagner's struggle for Parsifal protection . In: Socialist monthly books . 36 (1930), No. 12, pp. 1244-1252. Digitized

literature

  • Theodor Müller (Ed.): 45 leaders from the beginnings and the heroic age of the Breslau social democracy . Robert Hermann, Breslau 1925, pp. 120–123 digitized .
  • Fritz Kunert and Marie Kunert . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume I. Deceased personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, pp. 174-175.
  • Dieter Fricke : The German labor movement 1869-1914. A manual about their organization and activity in the class struggle . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 558-561, 563, 576.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Fricke, p. 576.
  2. ↑ Theodor Müller.
  3. ^ Karl Retzlaw : Spartakus - Aufstieg und Niedergang, remembrance of a party worker, New Criticism publishing house, Frankfurt 1971, p. 134, ISBN 3-8015-0096-9
personal data
SURNAME Kunert, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, USPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Altlandsberg
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1931
Place of death Berlin