Hermann Leber

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Carl Gustav Hermann Leber (born December 9, 1860 in Ohlau ; † January 16, 1940 in Jena ) was a German politician of the SPD , a member of the parliament and president of the Thuringian state parliaments and a member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Hermann Leber was the son of tobacco spinner Karl Gotthold Leber and Pauline Emilie, née Dienst. After attending the preparatory classes at the grammar school and the community school in Ohlau, he completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter from 1875 and attended a further training school in Ohlau until 1879. He then went on a hike at home and abroad . He worked as a locksmith's assistant in Berlin until 1896 , after which he worked as a mechanic at Carl Zeiss in Jena until 1906 . In addition, he was a union member of the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). From 1891 to 1898 he was the authorized representative of the DMV branch in Apolda and from 1893 to 1903 he was part-time head of the DMV district for Thuringia. He also acted as a shop steward at Carl Zeiss from 1896 to 1906. From 1906 until his retirement in June 1930 he worked as a district secretary for the SPD , initially for East Thuringia in Jena, and from 1919 for the Thuringia district based in Weimar .

Leber was chairman of the SPD constituency organization for the Reichstag constituency of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 3 (Jena, Neustadt an der Orla ) from 1893 to 1903 and chairman of the SPD in Jena until 1907. From 1906 to 1921 he was a member of the Jena municipal council. In the Reichstag elections in 1903 , 1907 and 1912 he ran for the SPD in the constituency of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach 2 ( Eisenach , Dermbach ), which he represented from January 1910 to 1912 as a member of the German Reichstag . From 1906 until its dissolution in 1918, he was a member of the state parliament of the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ; from 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Landtag and at the same time President of the Landtag in the Free State of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . In the election to the German National Assembly in 1919, he applied unsuccessfully for a mandate in constituency 36 (Thuringia).

Leber, who headed the SPD regional organization Thuringia in the 1920s, was a member and president of the Thuringian People's Council from 1919 to 1921 . Between 1920 and 1932 he was a member of the Landtag of Thuringia and its president from 1921 to 1923 and from 1927 to 1929. He held the office of Vice-President in 1924 and again from 1930 to 1932. From 1930 he was the age-old President of Parliament.

After the National Socialists came to power , he was monitored by the Gestapo .

Hermann Leber married in Apolda in 1884 Johanna Auguste Martha Schneider (1863–1933), the daughter of a foreman.

Hermann-Leber-Strasse in Weimar has been named after him since May 1945.

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952: Biographisches Handbuch (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, large series . Volume 1 , no. 4 ). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 435-436 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The State Bauhaus in Weimar: Documents on the history of the institute 1919-1926, p. 377 ff.
  2. ↑ Bioweil: Collective biography of the members of the Landtag of the Weimar Republic: Thuringia 1920–1933 ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Leber, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leber, Carl Gustav Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German machinist and politician (SPD), MdR, MdL, state parliament president and Reichstag member
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Ohlau
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1940
Place of death Jena