Georg Birk (politician, 1839)

Georg Birk (around 1900)

Georg Birk (born October 11, 1839 in Hirschdorf / St. Lorenz parish , today Kempten (Allgäu) , † September 23, 1924 in Munich ) was a social democratic politician.

Birk was a journeyman butcher by profession. There are different reports about his early years. After Wilhelm Heinz Schröder , he came to Munich in 1865; other authors assume 1858. It is clear that Birk spent several years in Russia. Birk set up shop as an innkeeper in Munich. His inn was a center of social democracy in Munich , especially at the time of the Socialist Law . In 1901 Birk became the owner of a printing works and sponsor of the Munich party publishing house. From 1908 to 1919 Birk was a full-time magistrate of the city of Munich.

In 1893, Birk became the first social democrat to become a member of the municipal council in Munich. He was a member of the committee until 1905. He was also a member of the Second Chamber of the Bavarian State Parliament between 1899 and 1907 and a member of the German Reichstag from 1890 to 1898 as a member of the Upper Bavaria constituency (Munich I) . In 1903 he was re-elected to the Reichstag.

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Candidates for the Reichstag 1898-1918. Biographical-statistical manual (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-5135-1 , p. 82.
^ 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. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 185.

Web links

Georg Birk's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Biography of Georg Johann Birk . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Georg Birk in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Biography of the Munich SPD
Georg Birk in the database of members of the Reichstag

personal data
SURNAME	Birk, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	October 11, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hirschdorf , municipality of St. Lorenz
DATE OF DEATH	September 23, 1924
Place of death	Munich

[1] Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Candidates for the Reichstag 1898-1918. Biographical-statistical manual (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-5135-1 , p. 82.

[2] 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. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 185.