Georg Horn

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Georg Horn (born August 30, 1841 in Fabrikschleichach , † August 19, 1919 in Lindenau , today Radebeul ) was a German trade unionist and social democratic politician , Member of the Bundestag and Member of the Bundestag.

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SPD member of the Reichstag from Saxony from 1903

Horn was a bottle maker and was an independent master bottle maker from 1864 to 1866. In 1867 he joined the General German Workers' Association . In 1871 he was co-founder and head of the organization of glass workers in Dresden-Löbtau . Between 1875 and 1878 he was chairman of the General Glass Artists Association of Germany (from October 1876 Association of German Glass Workers ). In the years 1877 and 1878 he was also the editor of the association newspaper Neue Glashütte . Between 1878 and 1890 Horn was the full-time owner of a regional products shop in Dresden . In 1889 he was a delegate at the founding congress of the Second International in Paris, where he lectured on issues of worker protection. On the side he worked from 1885 to 1890 as a partially paid editor of the organ of the glass workers' association "Der Fachgenosse". After that he was the full-time editor of the paper until 1907. He then retired, but continued to write regularly for the newspaper. As an author, he also wrote a history of the glass workers.

Horn was imprisoned for a total of 25 months for violating press laws. He was a member of the Reichstag from 1895 to 1918 and of the Saxon state parliament from 1891 to 1897 . As a critic of the war credit policy of the SPD majority in the Reichstag parliamentary group, Horn joined the Social Democratic Working Group in 1916 and the USPD in 1917 .

With the politician August Kaden , who temporarily lived in Kötzschenbroda, Horn had "a long and close friendship."

The funeral address at Ringstrasse 36d was administered by Lindenau, but the property was on Oberkötzschenbrodaer Flur. Today it is Ringstrasse 12, the house name of the Villa Margarethe , which was occupied in 1897, is derived from the first name of Horn's wife. Daughter Mathilde and son-in-law Hermann Schneider lived next door in Villa Mathilde from around 1900.

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  • History of the glass industry and its workers . Stuttgart 1903.
  • The specialist , glass workers newspaper (founder, publisher and editor) from 1885.

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  1. ^ Dieter Schuster: Chronology of the German trade union movement from 1794 to 1918. Chronology: 1875–1877
  2. ↑ See collection of sources on the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February Decrees of Wilhelm II (1881-1890) , Volume 3: Workers' Protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 1998, No. 191 and 193.
  3. ↑ Swen Steinberg: Kaden, Wilhelm August . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  4. ↑ According to the obituary in the Kötzschenbrodaer Generalanzeiger, the funeral took place on August 21, 1919.
  5. ↑ Rainer Horn, Rolf Haußig: From the glassworks in the Reichstag. In: Preview & Review ; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler monthly books e. V., September 2019, accessed on September 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ cf. Germanus Theiss, Konrad Theiss; Henz Hieke (ed.): New glass and old faith: Memories of the glassmaker Germanus Theiss , 1st edition 1982, p. 92 f.
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (ADAV, SPD, USPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Factory Schleichach
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1919
Place of death Lindenau