Hinrich Schmalfeldt

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Johann Hinrich Schmalfeldt (born November 28, 1850 in Neritz in the Stormarn district , † December 30, 1937 in Bremerhaven ) was a German cigar maker, politician ( SPD , USPD ) and member of the Reichstag in Bremen .

biography

Schmalfeldt was the son of a shoemaker . He attended elementary school in Bad Oldesloe . He learned the profession of wine buyer in Hamburg and from 1866 in Bremen. Then he did an apprenticeship as a cigar maker in Bad Oldesloe. He then went on a journey to Sweden , Denmark , England and the USA . After his wandering he settled in Ottensen in 1875 .

Social Democrat in the Imperial Era

Schmalfeldt joined the General German Workers' Association (ADAV) in Hamburg in 1870 . In 1875 he became a member of the General German Cigar Workers' Association, which was close to the supporters of Ferdinand Lassalle . In May 1877 he appeared as a delegate at the unification party congress from May 22nd to 27th in Gotha , when the ADAV and the SDAP merged to form the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP).

When in 1878 the “ Socialist Law ” ( law against the publicly dangerous endeavors of the social democracy ) was passed in the Reichstag of the German Empire, he was also expelled from his place of residence under Prussian pressure. In October 1881 he was forbidden to stay in the Hamburg state territory and numerous urban districts and parish districts on the usual grounds as “a person from whom a threat to public safety or order is to be obtained”. He left Germany and emigrated to America and returned in 1882. Until 1890, when the Socialist Law came to an end, he was regularly sent deportation notices, which he later had to be bound with the title “In memory of the Socialist Law”.

He worked in a cigar factory in Uetersen and was forced to move to Stade later . In 1883 he worked here in a boatmen's organization and in 1889 in the workers' education association . He actively supported the tobacco workers' strike in Hamburg as a union .

Reichstag candidate, member of parliament, city councilor

He ran for the Reichstag election in 1890 in the Geestemünde constituency, but was defeated in the runoff against Rudolf von Bennigsen ( NLP ).

In 1892 he moved to Bremerhaven. Here he was a tobacco dealer and later also an innkeeper. Politically and in trade unions, he was involved in the German Seaman's Association until 1903, and from 1895 also headed the Stokers and Coal Pullers Association . From 1895 to 1930 he was a member of the Bremerhaven city council . In 1898 he was again a candidate for the Reichstag, but was defeated by the liberal Hermann Frese (FVg) in the Bremen / Bremerhaven constituency . In the Reichstag election in 1903 , he then won the Reichstag mandate against Freese. In 1907 he lost his seat in the Reichstag and in 1912 he resigned in favor of Alfred Henke (SPD), who regained the seat.

From 1904 he was the sponsor of the SPD-supported print shop and the Schmalfeldt Co. publishing house , which published the Bremer Bürger-Zeitung .

Bremen politician after 1917

During the First World War , Schmalfeldt joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) when the SPD split . In 1922 the USPD rejoined the SPD. Schmalfeldt was a member of the Bremen National Assembly in 1919 and a member of the Bremen Citizenship from 1920 to 1930 . He retired from politics in 1930. After his death in December 1937, he was buried in the Bremerhaven cemetery in Wulsdorf .

Honors

  • In 1930 he became an honorary citizen of Bremerhaven. In 1936 the National Socialists withdrew this dignity from the now 86-year-old. In 1949 the NS decision was repealed, which the mayor informed his son Fritz Schmalfeldt.
  • The Hinrich-Schmalfeldt-Straße in Bremerhaven-Lehe was named after him.

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