Carl Most

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Carl Julius Meist (born December 12, 1856 in Deutz , † February 19, 1908 in Cologne ) was a German trade unionist, businessman and social democratic politician.

Life

After attending primary school, he learned the carpentry trade . He finished his military service in 1881 with the qualification as a non-commissioned officer . Until 1885 he worked in the profession he had learned. He had been a member of the Social Democrats since 1875. He was reprimanded for his political views. In 1885 he opened a tobacco shop, which, based in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, developed into a mail order business for cigars and cigarettes.

At first he was mainly active in trade unions. In 1882/83 he was chairman of the carpenter's trade association in Cologne. Between 1884 and 1886 he was chairman of the central association committee of the carpenters' association. In 1885 he was also briefly paid agitator for the carpenter's association. For many years he was chairman of the central sickness and mortality fund of the carpenter in Deutz.

Since 1897 he was a delegate at numerous social democratic party conferences. He also took part in the international socialist congresses in Brussels (1891), Zurich (1893), London (1896) and Paris (1900). Between 1893 and 1895 he was a member of the central SPD control commission.

He was a member of the Reichstag from 1893 to 1895 and again from 1903 to 1907.

literature

  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 13, 1908, Reimer, Berlin
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? 4th edition, Degener, Leipzig 1909
  • Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic MPs and Reichstag candidates 1898–1918. Biographical-statistical manual (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-5135-1 .

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