Gerhard Stötzel

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Gerhard Stötzel

Gerhard Stötzel (born December 4, 1835 in Grissenbach near Siegen , † June 1, 1905 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German politician of the Center Party and the very first workers' representative within the Center Party in the German Reichstag .

Life

Stötzel was a lathe operator and employed at the Krupp works in Essen. He then became editor of the Christian Social sheet "Rheinisch-Westphalian Volksfreund." As a candidate of the Center Party and member of the Christian Social workers 'associations in the Ruhr area (not to be confused with the Christian Social Workers' Party of Adolf Stoecker ) he won with the support of the Social Democrats in 1877 against the other candidate of the center Christoph Ernst Friedrich von Forcade de Biaix the election to the Reichstag in the constituency of Düsseldorf 5 (Essen). Stötzel joined the faction of the Center Party in the Reichstag. In the Reichstag election of 1878 he won with a lead of 600 votes in Essen over his former employer Friedrich Alfred Krupp . Stötzel was able to hold the constituency until his death in 1905 and remained the only worker in the Reichstag faction of the Center Party for decades. His successor as a member of the Reichstag for the Essen constituency was Johannes Giesberts . From 1886 until his death he was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . In addition, Stötzel was a board member of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany .

On June 1, 1905, Stötzel died of pneumonia in his Berlin apartment. At his funeral on June 5, 1905, delegations from almost a hundred associations with their club flags and numerous representatives of the city of Essen and the central parliamentary groups of the Reichstag and the Prussian House of Representatives appeared.

A street in Essen is named after Stötzel.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vera Bücker: Catholicism in the Ruhr area . Published by the "Church in the Ruhr Area" association, 2007. (PDF; 101 kB)
  2. ↑ cf. the call for the runoff election to the socialists of the Essen district signed by leading local social democrats, including: "Forcade is the candidate of the ultramontane bourgeoisie, Stötzel the candidate put up by the workers. ... Therefore, on election day, the slogan: Let's vote for Stötzel! .. Let's vote, Stötzel has to go through! "; printed in Essener Volkszeitung , edition 17/1877. The bourgeois wing of the Center Party published an appeal for Catholic voters in the same issue of the Essen People's Daily . in which this wing of the Center Party declared that Stötzel was not eligible for election to Catholics.
  3. ↑ A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Louis Gerschel publishing house, Berlin 1883, p. 104.
  4. ↑ Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Alamanach. 12th edition dated February 13, 1877 . G. Hirth Verlag, Leipzig 1877, p. 235.
  5. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 166; see. also: Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach. 13th edition from September 1878 . G. Hirth Verlag, Leipzig 1878, pp. 233f.
  6. ↑ Reinhard Richter: National Thinking in Catholicism of the Weimar Republic (= Theology. Volume 21). LIT Verlag, Münster 2000, p. 43; also Diss.phil. University of Bochum 2000 (digitized version)
  7. ^ Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung. 445/1905, June 2, 1905.
  8. ^ Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung. 555/1905, June 6, 1905.

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SURNAME Stötzel, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Grissenbach
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1905
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg