Gustav Lehmann (politician)
Gustav Adolf Lehmann (born November 2, 1855 in Görsdorf an der Dahme , † November 20, 1926 in Mannheim ) was a social democratic German journalist and politician .
Life
After elementary school, Lehmann completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and worked in this profession until 1890. During this time he also acquired knowledge of commercial bookkeeping, so that he worked in various companies not only as a craftsman but also as a commercial assistant.
In 1882 he joined the SPD in, after 1890, he worked for various Social Democratic newspapers as a journalist, but above all as an accountant, manager or clerk operates. After stints at the Westphalian Press and the Rheinisch-Westfälische Arbeiterzeitung in Dortmund , he settled in Mannheim in 1899, where he was responsible for the bookkeeping and distribution of the SPD newspaper Volksstimme . From 1903 to 1909 he was a member of the state parliament in Baden , from 1905 to 1919 he was a member of the Mannheim Citizens' Committee for his party.
Otherwise, however, the party left Lehmann had a hard time gaining recognition and political influence in Mannheim - a stronghold of revisionism . The Reichstag mandate, which he held from 1907 to 1912, he won not in his adopted home, but in Wiesbaden . During this time he repeatedly participated in the contentious disputes of the party wings and came into conflict with party members from his own local association, above all Ludwig Frank , at party congresses and in the New Age .
Nevertheless, during the First World War he did not join the SPD left in Baden around Adolf Geck , which founded a state association of the USPD , but stayed in the MSPD and with the “right” people's voice . After an unsuccessful application for a renewed candidacy for the state parliament in Mannheim, he no longer appeared outside of local politics.
Web links
- Gustav Lehmann's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
- Gustav Lehmann's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
- Gustav Lehmann in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Speeches by Gustav Lehmann in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lehmann, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lehmann, Gustav Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdR and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Görsdorf (Dahme) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1926 |
| Place of death | Mannheim |