Karl Eberle

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Karl Eberle (born September 4, 1869 in Blieskastel , † May 4, 1950 in Wuppertal ) was a member of the state parliament of the SPD in the state parliament of Prussia.

Life

Karl Eberle attended elementary school from 1976 to 1883 and then until 1883 the Latin school in Blieskastel. In 1883 he began an apprenticeship as a turner , which he successfully completed in 1886. Until 1883 he worked as a wood turner. From 1893 to 1901 he was an independent master turner in Barmen .

Karl Eberle first became politically active in 1888 when he joined the union . In 1889 he joined the SPD. Here he took part in the party congresses in Cologne in 1893, in Breslau in 1895 and in Lübeck in 1901. In 1893 he became chairman of the union cartel. In 1901 he switched to the Free Press in Elberfeld as an editor . Here he worked until 1907.

As early as 1899 he founded the consumer cooperative Vorwärts in Barmen with like-minded people . From 1906 to 1907 he was chairman of the supervisory board there, and from 1907 to 1919 an executive member of the board. The building of the consumer cooperative was confiscated by the SA in 1933 . In 1945 he was actively involved in the rebuilding of the cooperative. In 1909 he became one of four SPD city councilors in Barmen, despite three-class voting rights. He held this office until 1919. He then moved to the top management there as the first full-time alderman of the SPD. In 1929 he held this position in Wuppertal.

From 1921 to 1933 he was a member of the Prussian State Council and from 1924 to 1933 Deputy President of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the state parliament in Prussia. In the years 1898 and 1903 he ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag in the Aachen 3 constituency.

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