Heinrich Mahlke

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Heinrich Mahlke (born May 9, 1851 in Dankensen ; † August 18, 1921 in Flensburg ) was a master tailor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Mahlke attended elementary school to thank in the Altmark. He learned the tailoring trade in Hamburg , traveled as a journeyman to Central Germany, Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland and established himself in Flensburg in 1889. From May 28, 1874 to October 1, 1876, he served in the Schleswig-Holstein Dragoon Regiment No. 13 in Flensburg.

In 1872 he became a member of the ADAV . In Flensburg he was the leading head of the Social Democrats for a long time, even during the time of the Socialist Laws . In 1890 and 1893 he ran for the Reichstag elections in the constituency of Flensburg-Aabenraa, but was defeated both times by the national liberal shipowner and businessman Michael Jebsen from Aabenraa. In a by-election in 1902 in the Hadersleben constituency - Sonderburg , he was also unsuccessful. In 1903 he ran again in both electoral districts and this time won the constituency of the province of Schleswig-Holstein 2 Aabenraa , Flensburg against the anti-Semite Friedrich Raab . He never gave a speech in the Reichstag and did not stand for election again in 1907. From 1903/1904 he was the full-time chairman of the Vorwärts health insurance company .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 108.
  2. ^ Gert Roßberg: Heinrich Mahlke - member of the Reichstag from Flensburg. In: Democratic History , Volume 3, 1988.
personal data
SURNAME Mahlke, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German master tailor and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Thank you
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1921
Place of death Flensburg