Gustav Ehlers

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Gustav Ehlers

Gustav Johannes Joachim Ehlers (born February 23, 1873 in Lübeck ; † May 28, 1947 there ) was a German craftsman, innkeeper, employee and member of the Lübeck citizenship.

career

Ehlers attended the Behrend-Schrödersche Free School from 1879 to 1881 and was educated in the orphanage from 1882 to 1887 . He then learned the carpentry trade as an assistant until 1891 .

On the Walz , Ehlers worked as a journeyman in the Rhineland until 1895 . He was an active soldier until autumn 1897 and fulfilled his two years of military service in the infantry of the Prussian Army of the Infantry Regiment "Freiherr von Sparr" (3rd Westphalian) No. 16 in Cologne .

From then on, Ehlers worked as a carpenter journeyman in Lübeck until 1909. During this time, however, as a result of the Lübeck woodworkers' strike that lasted 16 months, he left the city for another year and worked in Hanover , Neumünster and Altona . Back home Ehlers was 1909 until March 31, 1919 host an inn , restaurant and breakfast restaurant, in the Hüxstraße 110. Its owners, in turn, was Hansa Brewery . From then on he was employed by the housing office.

Back in the Hanseatic city , Ehlers belonged to the Lübeck paying agency of the German Woodworkers' Association as a member of the board and wages committee. From 1891 he was both unionized and politically organized and was a member of the board of the local social democratic association from 1898 to 1921 . For two years, from 1899 to 1901, he was chairman of the Lübeck trade union cartel .

Senate commissioners and spokesmen sat on the raised seats at the meetings

Since 1909 Ehlers, like Paul Hoff , was a member of the citizenship and 1918/19 also of the citizens' committee . From September 15 to 21, 1912, he took part in his party's congress in Chemnitz . On April 14, 1919, the citizenship elected him with 67 of 70 votes to succeed Paul Löwigt, who was elected to the Senate on March 31, 1919 for the deceased Senator Emil Possehl, and remained so until 1932. In 1933, he resigned from the citizenship out.

He was impartial in public civil honorary posts . Since 1919 he has been a member of the Lübeck administrative court, the theater authority and the appraisal commission since 1920.

Web links

Commons : Gustav Ehlers  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Golden Book for August Bebel's 70th Birthday, Congratulatory Letter No. 51  - Sources and full texts

literature

  • Gustav Ehlers, spokesman for the citizenship. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1918/19, No. 15, edition of April 27, 1919, p. 57.
  • The new Presidium of the Citizenship. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1923/24, No. 8, edition of March 23, 1924, pp. 29–30.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 16th Infantry Regiment was colloquially referred to as "Regiment Hacke Tau". During the Battle of Großbeeren , the soldiers' rifles failed due to persistent heavy rain. So they were forced to use the rifle butt in close combat. Here they shouted "HACKE TAU ..." (blow to) "... it's gone fatherland". As a result, the members of the regiment were given the nickname: Hacketäuer
  2. ↑ Major General Paul Stern , who had lived in Lübeck since 1901, had been in command of the regiment since August 18, 1897 .
personal data
SURNAME Ehlers, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehlers, Gustav Johannes Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German craftsman, innkeeper, employee and member of the Lübeck citizenship
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1947
Place of death Lübeck