Hans Wednesday
Hans Wednesday ( October 4, 1875 in Posen , † December 3, 1924 in Stuhm ) was a German printer and politician of the SPD and USPD .
Live and act
After attending the Rochlitz community school, Wednesday learned the printing trade . After a few years of wandering, which took him through Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France, he settled in Königsberg . There he worked from 1896 as a typesetter and proofreader, before joining the Königsberger Volkszeitung as a reporter in 1909, then as an editor , where he was reprimanded in 1917 by the executive committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany for his political convictions. In the same year he left the SPD to join the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD).
After his discharge from military service at the end of 1918, Wednesday took over the editing of the soldiers' council newspaper Freiheit , which was later taken over by the USPD. In 1919 he became a city councilor in Königsberg . In June 1920, Wednesday moved into the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic on the Reich election proposal , of which he was a member until the May 1924 election. On June 23, 1920 one day before the opening of the Reichstag, Wednesday was after eight months of detention for attempted treason to two years imprisonment convicted.
Web links
- Hans Wednesday in the database of the members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wednesday, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German printer and politician (SPD, USPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 1924 |
| Place of death | Stool |