Gustav Deckwitz

Gustav Adolph Deckwitz (born April 17, 1837 in Zeitz ; † July 21, 1921 in Bremen ) was a German politician and master carpenter .

biography

Deckwitz learned the carpentry trade and set out on a journey in 1855. In Hamburg in 1862 he met Ferdinand Lassalle and the Lassalleans with their General German Workers' Association (ADAV), which was founded in Leipzig on May 23, 1863 . From 1862 to 1863 he gained his first political experience in the club that was being founded. In 1863 he moved to Bremen. In the forward association he promoted the new political movement.

Deckwitz set up an ADAV group with 50 supporters in Bremen on January 1, 1864. On April 6, 1864 he was appointed Bremen representative of the ADAV. That was the beginning of the history of the Bremen SPD . Through active advertising he was able to achieve that in 1865 the association already had 239 members. In the clashes of the emerging socialist groups in Germany ( Hatzfeldt / Schweitzer and the Social Democratic Workers 'Party (SDAP) of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht ) the declining workers' association of Deckwitz lost around 100 members and influence. In 1867, Deckwitz ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag elections. He represented the principles of Lassalle and he opposed unions and strikes. The splits in the Bremen social democracy led to the strengthening of the SDAP. The Deckwitz group united in 1875 with the now leading Socialist Workers' Party in Germany (SAPD) .

In 1888 he founded the steam joinery Seebach & Deckwitz in Bremen with master carpenter Seebach , which employed up to 25 people. The company had to file for bankruptcy in 1891, but the workshop was operated almost unchanged until 1985 under a different name and still exists today as the carpentry museum of the carpenters' guild in the Bremen- Ostertor district , Köpkenstrasse 18-20.

Honors

The Gustav-Deckwitz Street in Bremen- Obervieland , district Kattenesch , was named after him.

literature

• Peter Benje: Early sawing machines, furniture factories and steam carpenters in Bremen - The introduction of woodworking machines into the carpentry trade in Bremen in the 19th century . Darmstadt 2004.
• Peter Benje: The old Bremen carpenter's office and the establishment of the free carpenter's guild in 1873. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch, Volume 78 [1999], (129).
• Wilhelm Lührs : Deckwitz, Gustav Adolph. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 99 (column 2) to p. 101 (column 1).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon, Volume 7 · habenhausen, Arsten . Verlag Schmetterling, Bremen, 1999, ISBN 3-932249-04-6 .

Web links

• Website of the carpentry museum