Karl Hugel

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Karl Hugel as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Karl Hugel (born April 30, 1865 in Bayreuth ; † May 21, 1937 there ) was a tailor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Hugel attended elementary school in Bayreuth. From 1878 he learned the carpentry trade and established himself as a master tailor in 1898. From 1885 to 1888 he served in the 7th Bavarian Infantry Regiment in Bayreuth. From 1903 to 1930 he was managing director of the social democratic newspaper Fränkische Volkstribüne . Between 1907 and 1911 Hugel was a member of the community college, for the period 1912 to 1917 he was elected a member of the city ​​council in Bayreuth. He was second mayor from 1919 to 1924 and also a member of the district council .

In the Reichstag election of 1903 , the candidate Hugel received the majority of the votes in the urban area and achieved high results, especially in working-class districts: Old Town 84.0%, Sankt Georgen 78.3%, Neuer Weg 67.0%. Only the conservative rural population saved the Reichstag mandate of the national liberal rival August Hagen in his constituency . Before the decisive run-off election , the local daily newspaper Bayreuther Tagblatt swore “all nationally-minded men” to Hagen: Those who do not vote would favor the candidate of the “party of revolution” and commit a “grave injustice to their fatherland”. It should never come to the point that the constituency falls to a Social Democrat. Nevertheless, Hugel scored 2301 against 1619 votes in the urban area. At that time there were only about 5,000 eligible voters in the city with around 30,000 inhabitants. The right to vote was denied to women and soldiers; Men under the age of 25 and those who were not subject to direct taxation were also denied access.

In 1912 , Hugel was elected to the German Reichstag for the first time as a member of the SPD for the constituency Upper Franconia  2 (Bayreuth, Wunsiedel , Berneck ) at his fourth attempt . Until 1918 Hugel belonged as a deputy to the Parliament of.

The former Hügelstrasse in the Bayreuth district of Kreuz , where Karl Hugel had lived in house number 15, was renamed Karl-Hugel-Strasse in 1947 in his honor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Mayer : The Bauverein makes city history in: 90 years Bauverein Bayreuth, p. 14 f.
  2. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was. Flash lights from the city's history 1850–1950 . 2nd Edition. Gondrom, Bayreuth 1981, p. 67 .
  3. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 96 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250); see also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1047-1051.
  4. ^ Kurt Herterich : Bayreuth Cross . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1992, ISBN 3-925361-13-8 , pp. 109 .
  5. ↑ Rosa and Volker carbon home: Bayreuth from AZ. Lexicon of Bayreuth street names . Rabenstein, Bayreuth 2009, ISBN 978-3-928683-44-9 , pp. 69 .

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SURNAME Hugel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tailor and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1937
Place of death Bayreuth