Hans Marckwald

Hans Marckwald (born January 24, 1874 in Berlin , † September 20, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German socialist politician and journalist. He was a brother of the chemist Willy Marckwald .

Life

After attending high school, Hans Marckwald completed a commercial apprenticeship and joined the SPD in 1892 . Marckwald, who belonged to the left wing and was considered a loner within the party, had worked as an editor for various SPD daily newspapers and the like since 1900 . a. in Halberstadt, at the Volksstimme in Magdeburg, in Forst (where he was involved in the "Sorau-Forster party dispute", in which, against the will of the local party organization, Marckwald's candidacy for the Reichstag election in 1907 was prevented) and in Königsberg. Temporarily imprisoned in 1909 because of lese majesty , Marckwald was a city councilor in Königsberg from 1910 to 1916 and ran for the Reichstag in 1912 in the Reichstag constituency of Danzig 3 without success .

Unlike the majority of the SPD left, Marckwald did not join the USPD in 1917 , but remained in the SPD, where he was a member of the program commission that worked out the Görlitz program (which Marckwald rejected) in 1921 . In addition, from 1919 he was editor-in-chief of Volksstimme in Frankfurt am Main. At the Berlin party congress in 1924, he caused a sensation with the motion to exclude President Friedrich Ebert from the party because of his attitude during the events of autumn 1923 ( Reich execution against the SPD / KPD coalition governments in Saxony and Thuringia). In the same year Marckwald was elected to the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1932.

When Marckwald was released from his editorial position in May 1930, he tried to commit suicide together with his wife. In March 1932 he joined the SAPD , whose group he formed in the Prussian state parliament together with Käte Frankenthal and Hermann Gebhardt . Not re-elected in the state elections that followed shortly thereafter, he left the SAPD in July that year after the SPD threatened to block his pension from the support association of the workers' press association.

literature

• Marckwald, Hans , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 254

Web links

• Biography of Hans Marckwald . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Marckwald, Hans in the Hessian biography
• political speeches by Hans Marckwald 1900-1914