Hermann Krätzig

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Hermann Krätzig

Karl Hermann Krätzig (born April 3, 1871 in Schobergrund , Reichenbach district in Silesia ; † September 18, 1954 in Wittstock / Dosse ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

After attending elementary school , Krätzig completed an apprenticeship as a hand weaver in Schobergrund, which he completed in 1887 with the journeyman's examination. From 1890 he worked as a factory weaver and newspaper delivery man , interrupted from military service, which he served with the 63rd Infantry Regiment from 1893 to 1895. In 1897 he became a workers secretary at the German Textile Workers' Association , whose Gauleiter for Mulhouse he became in 1904. From 1906 he was editor of the association magazine Der Textilarbeiter . From November 1918 he headed the Reich Office for Textile Industry .

MP

Krätzig was first elected to the Reichstag in the 1912 Reichstag election in the constituency of Löbau in Saxony and was a member of it until the end of the Empire. He was a member of the Weimar National Assembly from the election to the German National Assembly on January 19, 1919 until the end of 1920 . Then he was again a member of the Reichstag until 1933 .

Publications

  • Germany's future trade policy and the interests of German textile workers. Gera 1916.
  • Europe's economy in a global corporation. East Saxony printing house, Löbau 1926

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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