Heinrich Pumpkin

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Heinrich Kürbis (born January 9, 1873 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † August 25, 1951 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Heinrich Pumpkin

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After attending primary school in Mühlhausen, Heinrich Kürbis learned the iron turning trade in Göttingen . In 1892 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the trade union, in which he took on his first official duties in 1897. From 1910 to 1913, Kürbis was a full-time agent of the German Metalworkers' Association based in Hamburg and from 1909 to 1919 city councilor for the city of Altona . On November 1, 1913, he became district party secretary of the SPD for Schleswig-Holstein . He held this office until 1919. During the November Revolution of 1918, Kürbis was a member of the Kiel Workers 'and Soldiers' Council and a delegate to the Reich Council Congress, where he was elected to the Central Council of the German Socialist Republic . In addition, Kürbis became an alderman to the High President for the Province of Schleswig-Holstein .

In January 1919 Kürbis was elected to the Weimar National Assembly, in which he represented constituency 14 (Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck). In addition, on March 17, 1919, he was appointed (first provisional, later permanent) President of Schleswig-Holstein. During the Kapp Putsch of March 1920, Kürbis was arrested on the orders of Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, who was sympathetic to the putschists, and held captive for a few days until the coup collapsed. After the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic met in July 1920, Kürbis gave up his parliamentary career and from then on devoted himself entirely to his work as Chief President. One of the important decisions he made in this office was the order to dissolve the Escherich organization .

In July 1932, in the wake of the Prussian strike, the conservative Chancellor Franz von Papen retired. Pumpkin 'office as senior president was transferred to the German national Heinrich Thon by Papen .

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

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  1. ^ Reimer Möller: A coastal region in political and social upheaval , 2007, p. 345.
personal data
SURNAME Pumpkin, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1951
Place of death Hamburg