Hermann Silberschmidt

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Hermann Silberschmidt

Ernst Hermann Silberschmidt (born October 9, 1866 in Mühlbock , Züllichau-Schwiebus district , † December 3, 1927 in Berlin ) was a German politician (SPD).

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Silberschmidt was the son of a bricklayer and housekeeper . From 1873 to 1881 he attended the village school in Mühlbock. He was then trained as a bricklayer in Schwiebus from 1881 to 1883. From 1885 he worked as a bricklayer in Berlin. As a young man, Silberschmidt joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1887 . In addition, he was also active in the masons' union. Silberschmidt participated in the founding of the Central Association of Masons in Germany, of which he was a committee member for many years. From 1893 he was head of the masons' organization in Brandenburgand district chairman of the German construction workers' association. In 1898 Silberschmidt became secretary of the Central Association of Masons.

In the Reichstag election of January 1912 , Silberschmidt was elected as his party's candidate for the constituency of Magdeburg 6 (Wanzleben) in the Reichstag of the German Empire , to which he belonged until the collapse of the monarchy in November 1918. Among the outstanding parliamentary events in which Silberschmidt participated during this time were the adoption of the war credits to finance the First World War in August 1914 and the adoption of the peace resolution of the Reichstag in 1917. In parliament, Silberschmidt was particularly active in the expansion of social legislation emerged.

In September 1912 Silberschmidt was elected to the executive committee of the SPD. In 1913 he became a member of the board of the German Construction Workers' Association and a member of the general commission of the German trade unions. In 1914 Silberschmidt was elected to the city ​​council of Berlin .

From January 1919 to June 1920, Hermann Silberschmidt was a member of the Weimar National Assembly as a representative of constituency 12 (Magdeburg).

In the first Reichstag election of the Weimar Republic in June 1920 , Silberschmidt was elected to parliament as his party's candidate for constituency 10 (Magdeburg) , which he subsequently belonged to until his death in December 1927. In addition, he was a member of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) from July 1919 until his death .

On January 27, 1931, in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, in the newly built residential area of ​​Carl Legien, a previously undeveloped part of Zelterstrasse was named Silberschmidtweg. This was renamed Dixmuidenweg and Langemarckstraße on July 10, 1933 . In 1945 the name change was reversed for a short time. In 1952, Langemarckstrasse was renamed Küselstrasse after the communist resistance fighter Erich Küsel (1903-1942).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Booklet 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 89 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250)
  2. ^ International Labor Office: Industrial and Labor Information. 1927, p. 384.

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SURNAME Silberschmidt, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silberschmidt, Ernst Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlbock , district of Züllichau-Schwiebus
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1927
Place of death Berlin