Karl Frohme

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Karl Frohme
Frohme (front row, right) (seated: from left: Georg Schumacher , Friedrich Harm , August Bebel , Heinrich Meister , Karl Frohme . Standing: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz , August Kühn , Wilhelm Liebknecht , Karl Grillenberger , Paul Singer ) as a member of the socialist parliamentary group from 1889

Karl Franz Egon Frohme (* 4 February 1850 in Hannover , † 9 February 1933 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

Frohme was the son of a master tailor and trained as a locksmith himself . From the mid-1870s he was the editor of various social democratic newspapers such as the Frankfurter Volksfreund, a predecessor of the Frankfurter Volksstimme , who was set up in 1878 due to the “Socialist Laws” . From 1890 he lived in Hamburg and was editor of the SPD newspaper Hamburger Echo .

Political party

As early as 1867, at the age of 17, Frohme joined the General German Workers' Association (ADAV). Through its merger with the Social Democratic Workers 'Party , he came to the SPD in 1875 (at that time still: Socialist Workers' Party of Germany ). Frohme, who belonged to the reformers within the party, was considered one of the most influential members of the SPD in northern Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.

MP

Frohme was a member of the Reichstag from 1881 to 1924 . He first represented the constituency of Hanau - Gelnhausen and, from 1884, southern Schleswig-Holstein in parliament. In 1924, Louis Biester replaced him as a member of parliament. Frohme was involved in the drafting of the Civil Code (BGB) together with Arthur Stadthagen in 1896 and advocated equal rights for men and women in marriage as well as collective labor law, both of which, however, were resolutely rejected by the bourgeois parties. In 1914, Frohme demanded that Karl Liebknecht be sentenced by the SPD parliamentary group for his refusal to agree to the war loans.

Honors

Frohmestrasse (1947) and the school Frohme-Strasse in Hamburg-Schnelsen are named after Karl Frohme .

Works

  • An immortelle wreath . Social democratic seals . Bremen 1872
  • Celebration hours. Poems . Frankfurt 1876
  • Free balls. Poems . Frankfurt-Bockenheim 1876
  • The development of property relations . Bockenheim 1883 (Reprint: Zentralantiquariat d. GDR, 1975)
  • From night to light! Essays on the rule of superstition and the patronizing spirit of power . Wörlein, Nuremberg 1884
  • Peaceful Development or Violent Revolution? A warning to all classes of society . Wörlein, Nuremberg 1885
  • Demagogy and social democracy . Wörlein, Nuremberg 1885
  • The national mission of the German social democracy. A lecture interrupted by the dissolution of the police meeting due to the Socialist Law. Wörlein, Nuremberg [approx. 1885] (and Wörlein, Nuremberg 1900)
  • Peaceful Development or Violent Revolution? A warning to all classes of society . Wörlein, Nuremberg 1885
  • W. Hasenclever , KE Frohme and Adolf Lepp : Poems . JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1893 (German workers' seal, vol. 1)
  • Adolph von Elm , the man and the socialist . In: Socialist monthly books . - 22 (1916), no. 21, pp. 1098-1102 online
  • Defense and weapons. Explanations of the principles and requirements of the local election program for the social democratic party of the province of Schleswig-Holstein , the Principality of Lübeck and the Duchy of Lauenburg . On behalf of the program commission . Heinrich Lienau, Neumünster 1902
  • Monarchy or republic ? Forays into cultural history . Auer, Hamburg 1904 (2nd unchanged edition 1904)
  • Work and culture. A combination of scientific, anthropological, cultural-historical, economic and socio-political studies . Publishing house Central Association of Masons in Germany (Bömelburg), Hamburg 1905
  • Up! Songs and poems edited by the board of the Social Democratic Association for the eighth and tenth Schleswig-Holstein constituencies. Auer, Hamburg 1910
  • The labor movement is a cultural power. Lecture by Karl Frohme, member of the Reichstag, held at the general meeting of the Central Association of Carpenters in Germany, Paying Office Berlin and the surrounding area, on December 7, 1910, in the Sophien-Hälen in Berlin . Witt, Berlin 1910
  • Karl Frohme u. a .: May 1919 . Hamberger printing and publishing house, Hamburg 1919
  • The solidary self-help of the workers . Publishing company of German consumer associations, Hamburg 1920 (and 1929)
  • Political police and justice in monarchical Germany. Memories . Auer, Hamburg 1926
  • The social hydra . Publishing company of German consumer associations, Hamburg [1934?]

literature

  • Frohme, Karl Franz Egon . In: Lexicon of socialist German literature . Leipzig 1964, pp. 177-178
  • Gustav Seeber: Frohme, Karl Franz Egon. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 142-143
  • Holger Czitrich-Stahl: "Equal rights for everyone!" The German social democracy and the emergence of the civil code 1896 , in: Arbeit - Bewegungs - Geschichte , Issue II / 2016.
  • Volker Eichler: Socialist workers' movement in Frankfurt am Main 1878–1895 . W. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1983 (Studies on Frankfurt History, Issue 17)
  • In the struggle for the revolutionary character of the proletarian party: letters from leading German worker functionaries. December 1884 - July 1885. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1977 contains letters on the steamship subsidy dispute
  • Klaus Klingner : Karl Frohme, a social democratic member of the Reichstag from Schleswig-Holstein. In: Democratic History. Born in 1986, No. 1, pages 29-46
  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
  • Judit Pàkh: Frankfurt labor movement in documents 1832–1933 . Bund, Frankfurt am Main 1994
  • Walther Killy : Frohme, Karl Franz Egon . In: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie Vol. 3. Munich 1996, p. 507

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Czitrich-Stahl: "Equal rights for all!" The German social democracy and the emergence of the civil code 1896 , in: Arbeit - Bewegungs - Geschichte , Issue II / 2016.
  2. ^ Eugen Prager : History of the USPD: Origin and Development of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany . Berlin 1921, p. 54.

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personal data
SURNAME Glad, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frohme, Karl Franz Egon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1933
Place of death Hamburg