Georg Schöpflin

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Georg Schöpflin as a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919

Georg Johann Schöpflin (born April 5, 1869 in Titisee ; † November 24, 1954 in Schöneiche near Berlin ) was a German politician (SPD, SED).

Live and act

Life in the Empire (1869 to 1919)

Schöpflin was born the son of a cooper and farmer . He attended elementary schools in Titisee and Freiburg im Breisgau between 1875 and 1883. He then completed an apprenticeship as a brush maker from 1883 to 1885 . From 1885 to 1889 Schöpflin was on the move. During this time he worked in Switzerland, Austria and Italy, among others. From 1889 to 1891 Schöpflin did his military service with the 1st Badisches Leib-Grenadier-Regiment No. 109 in Karlsruhe. In 1891 Schöpflin joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the German Woodworkers Association . At that time Schöpflin married. The marriage resulted in Alfons Schöpflin (1898–1970), who became a city councilor for Greater Berlin after the Second World War.

From 1895 Schöpflin worked as a volunteer for various social democratic daily newspapers, Burgstädt , Chemnitz , Mudental and in Leipzig . From 1895 to 1897 he was editor-in-chief of the Märkische Volksstimme in Frankfurt an der Oder. According to Koch and Briem, contemporaries rated Schöpflin's article as "lively and popular", and as a person he is said to have been popular with a mustache and "happily flashing eyes".

SPD Reichstag delegate from Saxony from 1903. Schöpflin top row, third from left.

In June 1903 Schöpflin was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 14 (Saxony) , to which he initially belonged until January 1907. After almost two and a half years of absence from the parliament of the empire, Schöpflin was able to return to parliament in September 1909, in which he now represented constituency 19 (Saxony). He subsequently remained a member of the Reichstag until November 1918. In August 1914, at the beginning of the First World War , Schöpflin voted for the war credits . During the war, apart from his work in parliament, he mainly worked for Social Democratic Correspondence in Berlin.

Weimar Republic and National Socialism (1919 to 1945)

During the period of upheaval in 1919, Schöpflin served as city ​​commander of Berlin for a few weeks . In addition, from 1919/20 he was a member of the Reichstag and the Weimar National Assembly , where the constitution of the Weimar Republic was drawn up and adopted. After the first elections to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , Schöpflin was a member of parliament for twelve and a half years without interruption. While in the transition phase from January 1919 to June 1920 he represented constituency 30 (Saxony) in parliament, he sat from June 1920 to May 1924 as a representative of constituency 35 (Baden) in parliament, then, from May 1924 to July 1932, as a representative of constituency 32. In parliament, Schöpflin came out primarily as a speaker on military policy issues, in particular on the budget of the Reichswehr .

Parallel to his parliamentary activities, Schöpflin was editor-in-chief of the social democratic Volksfreund in Karlsruhe from 1919 to 1933 . He often drew his articles there as "Isegrimm."

The National Socialist " seizure of power " in 1933 put Schöpflin's journalistic career to an end. He avoided arrest by briefly staying in Switzerland. He later returned to Germany, where he lived undisturbed in Karlsruhe for the rest of the Nazi regime, and from 1936 in Schöneiche near Berlin.

Last years (1945 to 1954)

Georg Schöpflin (right) with Adolf Rupprecht at the 3rd Party Congress of the SED (July 22, 1950)

After the Second World War , Schöpflin campaigned for “unity of the working class”. In 1946 he participated in the Unity Congress in part, the SPD and the on the KPD in the Soviet occupation zone to SED merged. For the SED, Schöpflin was then a member of the Brandenburg state parliament for five years, from 1946 to 1951, as senior president .

From 1948 to 1949 Schöpflin was a member of the People's Council and from 1949 to 1950 a member of the Provisional People's Chamber . He was also an honorary citizen of Schöneiche, where he died in 1954.

Fonts

  • The Saxon state elections in 1901 . In: Socialist monthly books . 1901, 5 = 7 (1901), No. 11, pp. 887-892. Digitized
  • War clubs and social democrats . In: Die Neue Zeit 36.1917-1918, Volume 2 (1918), Issue 22, pp. 511-514. Digitized
  • [Speech]. In: 40th congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany on April 19 and 20, 1946 in Berlin . Vorwärts-Verlag, Berlin 1946, pp. 124–128.
  • From the history of the German labor movement. "Experiences of a Social Democrat". In: unity . Journal of Theory and Practice of Scientific Socialism . Volume 2 (1947), pp. 685-688.
  • Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz . The creator and organizer of the socialist publishing business. On the 25th anniversary of his death on August 28, 1947. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1947.

literature

  • Georg Schöpflin . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume 1: Deceased Personalities. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH, Hanover 1960, p. 270.
  • Schöpflin, Johann Georg . In: Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch . Lexicon of politics, press and journalism . Continued by Eugen Kuri. Second volume. A. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 1088.
  • L. Beyer, Sigtraut Finzelberg: Schöpflin, Georg Johann . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 408-409.
  • 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. ↑ a b Manfred Koch / Karl Briem: The focus is on people. Parliamentary speeches from the Karlsruhe SPD MP , 2001, p. 103.
personal data
SURNAME Schöpflin, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schöpflin, Georg Johann (full name); Isegrimm (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (SPD, SED), MdR, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Titisee
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1954
Place of death Schöneiche near Berlin