Julius Steeger
Julius Steeger (born April 22, 1881 in Bayreuth ; died May 5, 1954 there ) was a German publisher and politician ( SPD ).
Life
Steeger was born the son of an umbrella manufacturer. After attending primary school in Bayreuth, he completed an apprenticeship as a printer from 1894 to 1898. He then went on a hike . In 1903 he joined the SPD. From 1908 to 1933 he worked as a mechanical engineer and managing director at the Bayreuth printing company of the social democratic newspaper Fränkische Volkstribüne . From 1912 to 1918 he was the municipal representative in Bayreuth.
The Bayreuth Workers, Farmers and Soldiers Council, which met for the first time on November 9, 1918, was a member of the Presidium and Executive Committee. In the state election in January 1919 , he was elected as a member of the Bavarian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1932.
After the National Socialists came to power , Steeger was briefly imprisoned. At the beginning of March 1933, in place of the arrested editor Georg Hacke , he was responsible for a few days for the Franconian People's Stand, which appeared for the last time on March 15, 1933. In August 1944 he was interned for thirty days in the Dachau concentration camp as part of the wave of arrests “ Aktion Gewitter ” .
After the end of the war, Steeger founded the Steeger publishing house in Bayreuth on November 16, 1945 with the aim of publishing a new newspaper. The first issue of the local daily Fränkische Presse appeared on December 18, 1945.
From February to June 1946 Steeger was a member of the Advisory State Committee of Bavaria.
Web links
- Julius Steeger in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
- Biography of Julius Steeger . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Trübsbach: History of the City of Bayreuth . Druckhaus Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1993, ISBN 3-922808-35-2 , p. 256 ff .
- ^ Rainer Trübsbach: History of the City of Bayreuth. 1993, p. 293.
- ^ German opponents of the "Aktion Gewitter" regime. (PDF file; 172 kB), prisoner number 93002.
- ^ Rainer Trübsbach: History of the City of Bayreuth. 1993, p. 359.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steeger, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher and politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5th 1954 |
| Place of death | Bayreuth |