Gustav Schneider (politician, 1877)

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Gustav Schneider

Gustav Wilhelm Schneider (born July 11, 1877 in Breslau , † October 16, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German politician (DDP).

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After attending school, Schneider completed a commercial apprenticeship. He later studied four semesters Economics at the Graduate School of Konigsberg . He then headed various factory operations for eighteen years.

In 1900 Schneider became a member of the advisory board and the supervisory board of the Association of German Handlers in Leipzig . In 1912 he became a member of the board of the association, to which he was to belong until 1920, under the designation "Director".

After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Schneider became a member of the War Committee for Consumer Interests and War Feeding. In 1920 he was elected chairman of the union federation of salaried employees and second chairman of the union ring of German workers', employees' and civil servants' associations. In 1925 he was also appointed President of the International Federation of Neutral Employee Organizations. Three years later, in 1928, Schneider was appointed to the board of the International Confederation of Neutral Trade Unions.

Since 1919 Schneider was politically active in the German Democratic Party (DDP). For this he sat from January 1919 to June 1920 as a member of the Weimar National Assembly . From December 1924 to July 1932 Schneider sat for the DDP, or for the German State Party (DStP), as a member of the Reichstag , in which he represented constituency 2 (Berlin).

Furthermore, Schneider was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council from 1920 to 1925 . As a journalist, Schneider distinguished himself through various writings on the employee movement.

Gustav Schneider died in Berlin in 1935 at the age of 58. He was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery . The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

  • The job placement of the clerks , Leipzig s. a. [1914].
  • The constitutional foundations of the German Reich , Berlin 1916.
  • The white-collar movement in the light of war and revolution , Berlin 1919.
  • The power of employees, the idea of ​​councils, the unified union , slea [Erfurt 1919]
  • The successful job applicant , Leipzig 1920.
  • The employees in the democratic people's state , Leipzig 1920.
  • Works council law and election regulations Berlin 1920.
  • State and trade union , 1921.
  • State and economy , s. l. [Nowawes] 1924.
  • The union read economic operators , Leipzig s. a. [around 1924].
  • Three billion too many taxes! , s. l. [Berlin] 1925.
  • Letters from the Reichstag , Berlin 1927.
  • Gustav Schneider speaks on the budget of the Reich Labor Ministry on Feb. 11, 1928 , see p. l. [Berlin] 1928.
  • The successful job applicant , Leipzig 1928.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 678.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Gustav Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1935
Place of death Berlin