Hans Krüger (politician, 1884)

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Hans Kruger
Admission certificate for Hans Krüger and his wife Anna to accept the citizenship of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Hans Krüger (actually Johannes Richard Krüger ; born December 10, 1884 in Hildesheim , † August 9, 1933 in Hanover ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Hanover, he learned the profession of typesetter . He then worked until 1911 as a newspaper agent for the Reussische Volkszeitung in Greiz and for the Oberfränkische Volkszeitung in Hof , then until 1913 for the Volksblatt für Anhalt in Dessau . He had already joined the SPD in 1903.

During the First World War he was drafted into military service in January 1915 and seriously wounded in February 1918. At the beginning of the November Revolution he became chairman of the soldiers' council , a little later he chaired the state headquarters of the workers' and soldiers' councils in Mecklenburg-Strelitz . In April 1919 he was a delegate at the 2nd Workers and Soldiers Congress in Berlin .

Since November 1918 he belonged to the government of Mecklenburg-Strelitz under Peter Stubmann and was a member of the constituent assembly of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , to which he also belonged in the first electoral term. From January 1919 to June 1920 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly .

From January to mid-October 1919 he headed the state government as chairman or governor. Then he was envoy to the Reich government in Berlin and a member of the Reichsrat until October 1920 .

Probably because of disputes within the state SPD, he left Mecklenburg-Strelitz in autumn 1920 and went to the province of Hanover . There he was initially acting, then from February 1921 to September 1926 officially as District Administrator of the Linden district . From 1921 to March 1928 he was also a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hanover .

He was on leave in the last months of his tenure as district administrator. During this time he worked as managing director of the publishing house for municipal literature in Hanover.

literature

  • Kruger (Mecklenburg), Hans . In: Bureau des Reichstag (ed.): Handbook of the constituent German national assembly. Weimar 1919. Biographical notes and pictures. Carl Heymanns, Berlin 1919, p. 203
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 206.
  • Maik Lehmberg and Dieter Stellmacher: Language, speaking, proverbs: Festschrift for Dieter Stellmacher on his 65th birthday . In: Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics - Supplements (ZDL-B) . Volume 126, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-515-08459-2 , p. 242.

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SURNAME Kruger, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krüger, Johannes Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SPD politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1933
Place of death Hanover