Hermann Käppler

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Hermann Käppler

Hermann Käppler (born October 26, 1863 in Großenhain , † December 16, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German politician (SPD).

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Käppler was born the son of a cloth maker. After attending the community school in Großenhain from 1870 to 1878, he completed an apprenticeship as a miller by 1882 . In 1888 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He also became a member of the union, in which he gradually began to take on more functionaries. From 1890 he was an employee of the mill workers 'association (including editor of the mill workers' newspaper ), which he chaired from 1894 to 1910. After the merger of the mill workers and the brewery association to form the association of brewery and mill workers in 1910, Käppler was entrusted with the office of second chairman in the main board of the association, which he would hold until 1925.

From 1895 to 1910 Käppler was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Altenburg . In January 1912 he entered the Reichstag for the constituency of Altenburg-Roda , to which he belonged until the collapse of the monarchy in November 1918 . In January 1919 Käppler was elected to the Weimar National Assembly, in which he represented constituency 36 (Thuringia) until June 1920. He then belonged to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic during its first legislative period as a representative of constituency 13 (Thuringia). He was also a city councilor in Köpenick from 1919 to 1920.

In terms of journalism, Käppler excelled by publishing three brochures on the working conditions of millers in Germany during the Wilhelminian period and a book on the history of the mill workers' movement.

Today the Hermann-Käppler-Platz in Hermsdorf is a reminder of Käppler's life and political work.

Fonts

  • Employment conditions of millers in Germany , 1891.
  • History of the Mill Workers Movement , 1927.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Central Office for German Personal and Family History: Genealogical Yearbook , 1961, p. 36.
  2. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 101 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250); for the details of the election, see 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 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , p. 1435.

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personal data
SURNAME Käppler, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossenhain
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1926
Place of death Berlin