Georg Srowig

Georg Srowig (born September 10, 1879 in Breslau , † August 14, 1951 in Erwitte ) was a politician of the Weimar Republic ( SPD ) and a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1921 to 1925.

Srowig, a member of the SPD since 1903, worked as party secretary in Breslau from 1911 to 1919 before his election to the Prussian state parliament. From 1926 to 1933 he was a member of the Schlesische Bauhütte until he was sent to the Esterwegen concentration camp, where he had to remain as a political opponent until 1935. After the war he campaigned in Westphalia to alleviate the fate of those who had been expelled from the homeland.

The following episode is certainly part of his political life: In 1923 he made headlines because he illegally used the Deutsche Reichsbahn free ticket - which also allowed the carriage of 50 kg of luggage - to trade in his luggage during the inflation. For two days in a row he had given 50 kg of sugar and flour as luggage from Silesia to Ehrenbreitstein in the Rhineland. The "Deutsche Zeitung" reported on the scandal in its edition of February 9, 1923 (No. 104) under the heading The Free Baggage Allowance of the Member of Parliament . The “ Kreuzzeitung ” published a counter-statement on March 12th under the same heading, which the “ Frankfurter Zeitung ” (issue no. 120 of March 13, 1923) was able to convincingly refute.

Remarks

1. ^ Thomas Mergel : Parliamentary culture in the Weimar Republic. Political communication, symbolic politics and the public in the Reichstag. Düsseldorf 2005 (Articles on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties 135), p. 118.