Julius Bruhns

Julius August Friedrich Bruhns (born August 15, 1860 in Altona , † January 29, 1927 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German trade unionist , journalist and politician ( SPD ).

biography

Bruhns grew up as the eldest son of a cigar worker and at the age of five he had to help his father make cigars . He joined the socialist movement early on. He acted in the Reichstag elections in 1877/78, worked illegally for the party and was expelled from Hamburg in 1880 for socialist agitation after a house search . He settled in Bremen in 1881 . There he was one of the leaders of the radical left wing of the SPD. He worked as an agitator for his party and the tobacco workers' union and took part in several congresses. The party in Bremen experienced a new upswing through him. In 1888 Bruhns acquired the Bremen citizenship and founded his own cigar business.

In 1887 he ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag , but was then elected as a member of the Reichstag in the 1890 election. At the same time, Bruhns became publisher and editor of the SPD party newspaper Bremer Bürger-Zeitung . In 1893 Bruhns lost his seat in the Reichstag and in 1895, after internal party disputes, left Bremen for Silesia , where he was editor of the party newspaper Volkswacht . From 1910 to 1927 he was editor-in-chief of the Offenbacher Abendblatt and city councilor in Offenbach .

Honors

• The Julius Bruhns Street in Bremen- Vahr has been named after him in 1959.

Works

• The imperial legal regulation of the emigration system . In: The new time . Review of intellectual and public life . 15.1896-97, 2nd volume (1897), issue 28, pp. 37-47 digitized
• Election statistics and turnout in Prussia . In: Socialist monthly books . 9 = 11 (1905), no. 12, pp. 1004-1008 digitized
• Women's suffrage and the Social Democratic Party . In: Sozialistische Monatshefte 9 (1906), pp. 776–780 Digitized and full text in the German text archive
• The continuing education system. Vorwärts bookstore, Berlin 1910 ( Social Democratic Community Policy 11)
• The community policy of a social democratic majority . Buchhandlung Vorwärts, Berlin 1914 ( Social Democratic Community Policy 16) Digitized
• In memory of Wilh. Hasenclevers . On the 25th anniversary of his death (July 3, 1889) . Hamburg 1914 (from: Hamburger Echo from July 3, 1914)
• “It sounds an old song in the storm!” From the youth of the Social Democrats. JHW Dietz Nachf., Stuttgart and Berlin 1921 digitized

See also

• Bremen publishing
• Bremen newspaper industry

literature

• Julius Bruhns: It sounds an old song in a storm. Stuttgart and Berlin 1921 (autobiography; digitized in the virtual library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , PDF file; 4.44 MB)
• Wilhelm Lührs : Bruhns, Julius August Friedrich. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 76 (column 1) to 87 (column 1).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-86108-616-6 .

Web links

• Julius Bruhns: From the life of a proletarian child (excerpt). In: Emma Adler (ed.): Book of youth. For the children of the proletariat. Vorwärts publishing house, Berlin 1895.
• Bruhns, Julius August Friedrich in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Julius Bruhns . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Bruhns, Julius August Friedrich. Hessian biography. (As of July 20, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).