Gottfried Schurig
Gottfried Schurig (born June 21, 1865 in Bremen ; † March 28, 1941 in Baden-Baden ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( DDP ).
biography
Schurig came from a Protestant family in Bremen. His father was the Bremen potter Gottfried Michaelis (1829–1866). He took the name Schurig from his maternal grandfather in 1890. He attended secondary school in Bremen's old town and completed a commercial apprenticeship in a tobacco shop.
Entrepreneur
From 1881 he was employed by the Beck & Co. brewery. In 1894 he brokered a restaurant in the Brautstrasse in Bremen for the later Reich President Friedrich Ebert . In 1902 he was promoted to general manager. In 1910 he became the sole director of the brewery. During the First World War , he bought the Wilhelm Remmer Brewery in Bremen in 1917 and in 1918 took over the majority of shares in the St. Pauli Brewery , the strongest competitor on international markets. After the war, Schurig was the sole owner of the brewery. In 1921, the entire domestic business was transferred to the newly founded Haake-Beck Brauerei AG. The Kaiserbrauerei was now called Exportbrauerei Beck & Co. KG . Schurig was chairman of the board of directors of Haake-Beck and a partner in Beck & Co. He was also a member of the supervisory boards of other breweries as well as of Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugbau AG and Norddeutsche Luftverkehrs-AG and the administrative board of Sparkasse Bremen .
politics
After the November Revolution of 1918, Schurig was a staunch opponent of the Bremen Soviet Republic . He was a co-founder of the German Democratic Party (DDP) in Bremen. In 1919 he was elected to the constituent national assembly of Bremen .
As a representative of the DDP, he was a member of the Bremen Senate in the cabinet of Karl Deichmann (SPD) from April 10, 1919 to July 8, 1920 . From 1920 to 1924 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship and deputy group chairman of the DDP.
From December 7, 1924 to May 20, 1928 he was a member of the German Reichstag for one legislative period . Then he continued his political work in the Bremen citizenship from 1928 to 1930. Then he withdrew from politics.
He was a member and sponsor of several social and cultural associations.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Herbert Black Forest: History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , Volume III. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Schumacher: MDR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism , 1991, p. 525.
Web links
- Gottfried Schurig in the database of members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schurig, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneurs and politicians (DDP), MdBB, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1941 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |