Jakob Karl Maurer

Jakob Karl Maurer (born December 30, 1890 in Darmstadt , † December 22, 1975 in Lauterbach ) was a Hessian politician ( SPD Hessen ) and former member of the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic .

family

Jakob Karl Maurer was the son of master blacksmith Friedrich Karl Maurer and his wife Karoline nee Nohl.

Jakob Karl Maurer was a Protestant and married Amalie nee Rüdiger on May 14, 1921.

education and profession

Jakob Karl Maurer studied until 1914 and again from 1918 to 1919 in Darmstadt, Marburg , Heidelberg and Tübingen . In 1919 he completed his studies with the state examination in Marburg. During his studies he was heavily involved in the Wandervogel . In the summer of 1914 he worked briefly as an assistant at the Berlin Ethnographic Museum .

During the First World War he was a paramedic in the war from August 1914 to 1915 and from 1915 to 1918 in Russian captivity. There he was, among other things, a doctor for German prisoners of war and a member of the Swedish Red Cross Commission in Petersburg. He was a witness of the October Revolution . From 1919 to 1925 he worked at the Central Office for the Promotion of Popular Education in Darmstadt, then a teacher in Groß-Umstadt. From 1925 to 1933 he was a secondary school teacher in Lauterbach.

politics

Jakob Karl Maurer had been a member of the Lauterbach municipal council since 1925. From 1927 to 1932 he was the founder and leader of the Hessian peasantry, a community self-help organization. From 1927 to 1931 he was a member of the state parliament and in 1931 secretary of the SP parliamentary group in Hesse.

Other offices

Jakob Karl Maurer was the city archivist in Lauterbach from 1936 to 1975. He was the author of numerous historical contributions. From 1934 to 1941 and 1945 to 1958 he was director of the Hohhaus Museum in Lauterbach and from 1941 to 1945 director of the Vonderau Museum in Fulda .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 257.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 575.
• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 183.
• Anon .: Karl Maurer on his 100th birthday. Lauterbach collections. Special edition . 1990, ISSN  0455-4000 .

Web links

• Biography of Jakob Karl Maurer . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Mason, Jakob Karl. Hessian biography. (As of December 22, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).