Georg Mauerer

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Georg Mauerer

Georg Mauerer (born November 26, 1868 in Munich , † January 12, 1957 in Munich) was a German politician (SPD).

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In his youth, Mauerer attended primary school and advanced training school in Munich. He learned the saddlery trade and then traveled to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Around 1890 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He also took part in the founding of the German Saddlery Association, of which he became the first chairman.

From 1908 to 1914 and from 1919 to 1933, Mauerer was a municipal representative (member of the city council) in Munich, and from 1930 as parliamentary group leader of the SPD. In 1914 he became a member of the city's magistrate. In June 1920, Mauerer moved to the Weimar National Assembly as a member of the Weimar National Assembly , in which he represented constituency 24 (Upper Bavaria and Swabia) until June of the same year as a replacement for his resigned party colleague Alwin Saenger .

Mauerer stood out in public primarily through his socio-political engagement and his promotion of folk art, for example as a co-founder of the Munich Volksbühne .

In 1955 he was awarded the City of Munich's Golden Citizens' Medal .

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Anton Fingere: Munich, Home and World City, 1967, p. 35
  2. Friedrich Ebert Foundation: Archive for Social History , 1985, p. 112.