Karl Hermann Forster

Karl Hermann Förster (born September 18, 1853 in Zinna , † November 25, 1912 in Hamburg ) was an independent cigar manufacturer and politician of the SPD in Hamburg.

Life

Förster attended elementary school in Luckenwalde before starting to work there as a cigar worker. At the beginning of the seventies, Förster moved to Hamburg. He continued to work as a cigar worker and became politically active by becoming chairman of the Hamburg section of the tobacco workers' association. In 1885 he successfully went into business for himself as a cigar manufacturer. He was, after canceling the Socialist Law also managing director of the publishing house and printing office Auer & Co . He held this position until his death. Auer & Co mainly served as a printer for the publications of the SPD in Hamburg and de facto belonged to the party. In 1890 Förster obtained a mandate for the tenth parliamentary term of the Reichstag for the Principality of Reuss older line . He was able to defend this seat until 1907. In January 1912 he was re-elected for Reuss older line in the Reichstag. Alongside Otto Stolten, Förster was one of the most influential figures in the Hamburg SPD , and from 1895 to 1897 he was also a member of its governing body. From 1910 until his death he was a member of the Hamburg citizenship .

Individual evidence

↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 102 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250)

literature

Article Förster, Hermann. In: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 (short version on the Internet as a biography of Hermann Förster . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reichs and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) ).

Web links

Karl Hermann Förster in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Hermann Foerster . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

personal data
SURNAME	Forester, Karl Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdR, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH	September 18, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zinna
DATE OF DEATH	November 25, 1912
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 102 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250)