Hermann Weeger

Hermann Wäger (born May 3, 1883 in Döbeln near Leipzig, † August 3, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German politician.

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German Empire (1883 to 1918)

Hermann Wäger was born the son of a worker. After attending primary school in Dresden and the deacon seminar in Kropp near Schleswig, Wäger was trained as a nurse. At the turn of the century, Wäger joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

From 1905 Wäger worked in the Saxon state insane asylum, soon afterwards he worked until 1906 as an employee of the community and state workers' association in Dresden. In 1906, in which he also married, Wäger became court reporter for the Sächsische Arbeiterzeitung in Dresden (later the Dresdner Volkszeitung ), for which he contributed articles until the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914. During the war, Wäger fought as a non-commissioned officer from 1914 to 1918.

Weimar Republic and the National Socialism (1918 to 1942)

In the course of the November Revolution of 1918, Wäger became a member of the Soldiers' Council of Lithuania . A month later, in December 1918, he also became a delegate of the Central Council of Soldiers' Councils on the Eastern Front (Kovno), a member of the Berlin Executive Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils and a delegate to the 1st Council Congress in Berlin. From December 1918 to April 1919 he was also a member of the Central Council of the German Socialist Republic . He then held office for four months, until August 1919, as head of the investigative body of the Central Council.

From August 1919 to July 1920, Wäger was an assistant to the State Police Office at the Prussian State Commissioner for People's Nutrition, for whom he organized the economic police. Between August 1920 and 1928, Wäger was party secretary to the central SPD party executive in Berlin and head of the SPD official headquarters and editor of the journal Der Freie Beamte .

In October 1926, Wäger subsequently entered the third Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , elected in December 1924, as a representative of constituency 2 (Berlin) until the new parliamentary elections in May 1928, as a replacement for the resigned MP Richard Fischer . From February 1927 to 1933 Wäger was again secretary of the party executive of the SPD. Furthermore, from 1929 to 1933 he was employed in the property management of the Vorwärts- Verlag in Berlin.

On June 30, 1933, Wäger was released, probably at the instigation of the National Socialists. He remained unemployed for six years, during which he was also under police supervision as a former "system politician" until in 1939 he got a job as a claims correspondent for the insurance company Oskar Schunck KG in Berlin.

estate

In 1963 the historian Eberhard Kolb received some of Hermann Wäger's personal papers from his widow, which he handed over to the Federal Archives in Koblenz at the end of 1964 . The archive's efforts to receive the rest of the Wäger documents from the Wäger family were unsuccessful and were discontinued in 1968. The documents received from Kolb were initially kept under the signature Kleinekaufung 454 in the Koblenz branch of the Federal Archives. In 2008 they were transformed into an estate under the signature N 1664, which is now stored in the Koblenz final archive. In terms of content, it contains documents and records from the years 1919 to 1921, especially about the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg .

Web links

• Hermann Wäger in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Hermann Waeger in the central database of bequests