Karl Demmler

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Karl Demmler (top row, second from left) and the other members of the social democratic faction in the Saxon state parliament, 1909

Karl Ernst Demmler (born October 29, 1841 in Geyer ; † July 24, 1930 ibid) was a German social democratic politician.

Life

After the usual years of wandering, Demmler worked as a trimmers until 1890 . After that he was managing director of the local consumer association until 1918 . He then retired.

Already during his journeyman migration, he came into contact with people from the early labor movement. Ferdinand Lassalle was among them . However, Demmler broke with its ADAV and joined the Eisenach direction around Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel . Together with Liebknecht, in 1867 he co-founded the workers' education association in Geyer. He represented this on the 5th day of the German workers' associations in Nuremberg . He was also a member of the Saxon People's Party . In 1869 he was one of the founders of the SDAP in Eisenach . After that he was a leading social democratic functionary in his hometown until it was banned by the Socialist Act in 1878. After the re-establishment of an electoral association in 1886, he was again chairman of the party in Geyer. In addition, he was chairman of the local health insurance fund from around 1900 to 1924. By 1902 he had participated in numerous social democratic party conferences.

Between 1904 and 1920 Demmler was a city councilor. From 1909 to 1920 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament . In the first Saxon People's Chamber elected in 1919 , he was the senior president .

Demmler was made an honorary citizen of Geyer in 1924. The local SPD association bears his name today.

Publications

  • A cry of distress . In; Democratic weekly paper . No. 21 of May 22, 1869.
  • Saxon East Prussia . In; Democratic weekly paper . No. 24 dated June 12, 1869; No. 25 of June 19, 1869; No. 28 of July 10, 1869; No. 29 supplement dated July 17, 1869.

literature

  • The socialist Carl Demmler . In: Der Heimatfreund for the district of Stollberg / Erzgebirge 1964, issue 1, pp. 10–12.
  • Georg Eckert (Ed.): Wilhelm Liebknecht . Correspondence with German Social Democrats. Volume I. 1862-1878 . Van Gorcum & Comp., Assen 1973. ISBN 90-232-0858-7 , pp. 263 f., 275, 377, 380 f., 387 f., 419 f., 514 f., 516 f., 566 f ., 672 f.
  • Dieter Fricke : The German labor movement from 1869 to 1914. A manual about their organization and activity in the class struggle . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 8, 37, 93, 115, 572.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Demmler to Wilhelm Liebknecht October 20, 1869; Carl Demmler to Wilhelm Liebknecht April 2, 1871; Carl Demmler to Wilhelm Liebknecht June 1871; Carl Demmler to Wilhelm Liebknecht April 24, 1872; Carl Demmler to Wilhelm Liebknecht August 13, 1873; Carl Demmler to Nathalie Liebknecht August 17, 1873; Carl Demmler to Wilhelm Liebknecht July 15, 1874; Carl Demmler u. A. to Wilhelm Liebknecht at the end of March 1876.
personal data
SURNAME Demmler, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demmler, Karl Ernst; Demmler, Carl Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Geyer
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1930
Place of death Geyer