Karl Goßler

This article deals with the politician Karl Goßler. For the judge see Karl Gustav von Goßler ; on the rower see Carl Goßler .

Karl Franz Goßler, called Brätter (born March 16, 1836 in Rubitz , † September 27, 1900 in Gera ) was the first social democratic member of the Reuss state parliament .

Karl Goßler was the illegitimate son of Marie Rosine Götze (later married Brätter) and the shoemaker Breter in Gera. Goßler, who was initially of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination (later he left the church), married Louise Friederike Schmidt, the daughter of a calico printer, on August 15, 1869 in Gera.

He attended elementary school and then trained as a shoemaker. He later became a master shoemaker and acquired citizenship in Gera on January 19, 1875.

In October 1868 he was co-founder and chairman of the Association of German Workers' Associations in Gera. As an enthusiastic supporter of August Bebel , he agitated in the neighboring workers' associations and was a participant in the Eisenach party congress in 1869 and became a member of the SDAP . From 1869 to 1875 he was chairman of the general and social democratic workers' association in Gera. In 1873 he became editor of the "Geraer Volksfreund". From March 1877 to June 1878 he was editor of the "Ostthüringer Volksblatt". In 1882 he was expelled from the party after internal conflicts.

From 1877 to 1880 he was the first social democratic member of the Reuss younger line state parliament. In 1880 he was not re-elected. After Gustav Behr died, he was re-elected in a by-election in 1881 and a member of parliament until 1883.

A number of Reichstag candidates , however, were unsuccessful. He ran in the Reichstag election in 1877 in the constituency LP5 Reuss younger line, in 1878 and in the Reichstag election in 1881 in (LP6) Sachsen-Weimar 3 (Neustadt a. D. Orla) and in the constituency LP6 Reuss younger line.

Web links

• Karl Goßler's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) (the exact data set must be found using the search function)

literature

• Reyk Seela : Diets and regional representations in the Russian states 1848 / 67–1923. Biographical handbook (= Parliaments in Thuringia 1809–1952. Part 2). G. Fischer, Jena et al. 1996, ISBN 3-437-35046-3 , p. 237.