Heinrich Pëus

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Heinrich Pëus
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Wilhelm Heinrich Pëus (born July 24, 1862 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † April 10, 1937 in Dessau ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

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Pëus was the son of a carpenter. After elementary school, high school and grammar school in Elberfeld , the Protestant Pëus studied theology , economics and history in Berlin from 1883 to 1889 . From 1890 on he worked as a writer, from 1891 to 1933 he was editor of the Volksblatt für Anhalt and other social democratic newspapers in Anhalt . From 1900 he worked for the cooperative system , since 1916, according to his own statements, “an active land reformer and agitator for the home as a Reichsheimstätte ”.

Even during the German Empire, Heinrich Pëus was a member of the Reichstag from 1896 to 1898, from 1900 to 1906 and from 1912 to 1918 for the constituency of Potsdam 8 (Westhavelland - Brandenburg an der Havel) . From 1902 to 1908 he was also a member of the Landtag of the Duchy of Anhalt , from 1918 to 1933 of the Landtag of the Free State of Anhalt ; for many years he was its president. In the Weimar Republic he was again a member of the Reichstag from 1928 to 1930 .

He was also active in local politics, in the city of Dessau and at district level. In 1901 he founded a consumer association in Dessau , in 1910 he founded the Volkshaus Savings Association and later the Anhalt settlers' association .

In 1925, together with the then mayor of Dessau, Fritz Hesse , he ensured the continued existence of the Bauhaus , which threatened to end after its closure in Weimar . It was then further developed in Dessau. Pëus was convinced that the Bauhaus's views corresponded to social democratic goals and that social problems could be solved by building housing with modern means of production, more industrialization and well-planned prefabricated construction; this should create affordable housing for many. Pëus did not shy away from a technical dispute with the Bauhaus director Walter Gropius, despite all of his approval of his opinions. In 1926 and 1927 he published four major articles on the Bauhaus theme, including one entitled The Cathedral of Socialism .

Heinrich Pëus called himself a monist . He campaigned first for Esperanto and then for Ido ; among other things, he devised an ido shorthand . He was also active in the abstinence movement.

His estate is in the Dessau-Roßlau city ​​archive .

Klaus Wettig wrote about him: Heinrich Pëus remained forgotten because the world was divided into two camps after the Second World War. The fact that the work of a social democrat was forgotten in post-war Germany was a result of the political climate. In the cultural narrowness of the early Federal Republic, the Bauhaus legacy was only slowly accepted; the Nazi era had too much of an effect.

Honors

  • On the occasion of his 150th birthday, a memorial plaque was unveiled on July 24, 2012 on his former home at Kiefernweg 18 in Dessau.
  • On July 24, 2012, there was a festive event in his honor in Dessau under the title A politician from the force field of modernity , prepared by the Saxony-Anhalt state office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

Designations

literature

  • Wilhelm Heinrich Peus . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, pp. 237-238.
  • Ralf Regener: Heinrich Peus, Heinrich Deist and the peculiar way of the sustained social democracy in the First World War , in: World War, Split, Revolution. Social Democracy 1916-1922, ed. v. Uli Schöler / Thilo Scholle, Bonn 2018, pp. 180–193.
  • 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 .
  • Helga Grebing , Walter Scheiffele and Klaus Wettig : A politician from the force field of modernity. Ceremony for the 150th birthday of Heinrich Peus. Edited by Anja Kruke and Meik Woyke for the archive of social democracy , Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-86498-777-9 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Pëus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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, pp. 35-36.
  2. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 84 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250); Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 165-170.
  3. ↑ a b Gartenstadtsiedlung Dessau , accessed on May 5, 2014.
  4. ^ Socialist monthly books, 12 = (14) 1908 , accessed on November 5, 2019.
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spd-koethen.de
personal data
SURNAME Pëus, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pëus, Wilhelm Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1937
Place of death Dessau