Johannes Timm

Johannes Timm (born April 13, 1866 in Schashagen , † December 3, 1945 in Munich ; also: Johann Friedrich Heinrich Timm) was a social democratic politician.

Live and act

After finishing school, Timm did an apprenticeship as a tailor in Hamburg and worked in this profession until 1891. In the years 1890 and 1891 he was a member of the main board of the independent tailors' association. Then Timm was a full-time employee of the association in Berlin until 1898 . From 1898 to 1911 he worked as a workers secretary in Munich. Thereafter Timm was manager of the workers' and trade union secretariat and chairman of the Munich trade union until 1919. During the trade union congress in 1914 he gave a presentation on the influence of the food price increase on the economic situation of the working class.

In addition to his trade union activities, Timm was also politically active in the SPD. At the party congress in Breslau (October 1895) Timm gave a lecture on the subject of the sweating system, domestic industry and worker protection . Incidentally, he spoke on the same topic at the congress of free trade unions in 1896. From 1904 to 1919 he was chairman of the social democratic district committee for southern Bavaria. Timm was also a member of the party's central control commission from 1904 to 1919. He ran for the Reichstag in the constituency Arnsberg 4 ( Hagen - Schwelm ) in vain in 1898 and 1903 .

From 1905 to 1933 Timm was a member of the Bavarian state parliament . During the November Revolution he became a member of the Provisional National Council of Bavaria. He was also Minister of Justice in the Eisner cabinet until February 1919 . From 1918/19 to 1933 he was also chairman of the SPD parliamentary group .

In 1927 Timm was chairman of the SPD state committee in Bavaria .

Professionally, from 1920 to 1931, Timm was managing director of the Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst (Bavarian regional department). He then went into retirement.

In Munich, a street and various public facilities were named after Timm.

literature

Johannes Timm . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume 1: Deceased Personalities. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH, Hanover 1960, pp. 310-311.

Web links

Literature by and about Johannes Timm in the catalog of the German National Library
Biography of Johannes Timm . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Biography of Johannes Timm . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)
Johannes Timm in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

↑ The year 1918 can be found at: Franz Maget u. a. (Ed.): With passion for democracy. 110 years of the SPD parliamentary group in Bavaria. Munich 2003. The year 1919 among other things in a short biography at the Munich land surveying office ( Memento from August 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Timm, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Timm, Johann Friedrich Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German trade unionists and politicians (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schashagen
DATE OF DEATH	December 3, 1945
Place of death	Munich

[1] The year 1918 can be found at: Franz Maget u. a. (Ed.): With passion for democracy. 110 years of the SPD parliamentary group in Bavaria. Munich 2003. The year 1919 among other things in a short biography at the Munich land surveying office ( Memento from August 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )