Georg Landgrave

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Georg Landgrave

Georg Landgraf (born September 27, 1885 in Chemnitz , † March 9, 1933 there ) was a German social democratic politician and publishing director.

Life

Landgraf, son of Emil Landgraf, the founder of the SPD's own book printing company and the Landgraf & Co. publishing house , completed business school and a commercial apprenticeship . From 1900 he was an employee of the party publishing house, in which the social democratic Chemnitzer Volksstimme appeared from 1899 . In 1903 he became a member of the Central Association of Clerks and in 1905 of the SPD.

Landgraf was one of the co-founders of the Chemnitz housing cooperative movement. He was elected city councilor and represented the faction of his party from 1924 to 1929 as parliamentary group leader. During this period he was also head of the city council. As a trade unionist, he campaigned for the printers' wage demands.

After the fire in the Reichstag , the Chemnitz Volksstimme was banned on March 2, 1933. On March 9, 1933, SA men tried to occupy the Volksstimme printing plant . Publishing director Landgraf refused entry and was murdered by two pistol shots on the steps of the publishing house.

Today a stumbling block at Dresdner Straße 38 in Chemnitz reminds of his life and his murder.

Honors

  • A street in Chemnitz is named after Georg Landgraf.
  • The former publishing house of the Volksstimme at Dresdner Straße 38 is called Georg-Landgraf-Forum. On the 75th anniversary of Landgrave's death, a memorial plaque was unveiled there in his honor.

literature

  • Georg Landgrave . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume 1. Deceased personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hannover 1960, p. 176.
  • Luise Kraushaar (Ed.): German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2. Dietz, Berlin 1970, p. 516.
  • Street names in Karl-Marx-Stadt . Karl-Marx-Stadt-Information 1989, p. 21.
  • Board of the SPD (ed.): Committed to freedom: memorial book of German social democracy in the 20th century . Schüren, Marburg 2000, p. 196.
  • Uwe Rechtenbach: Democrat Georg Landgraf honored . In: Chemnitzer Zeitung , March 10, 2008, p. 16.

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personal data
SURNAME Landgrave, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) and publishing director
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1933
Place of death Chemnitz