Karl Obermeyer

Karl Obermeyer

Karl Obermeyer (born March 16, 1874 in Braunschweig , † May 15, 1955 in Essen ) was a German politician .

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Obermeyer attended the lower middle school in Braunschweig from the age of seven to fourteen . Then he learned the mason trade. He later belonged to the 2nd Sailors Division in Wilhelmshaven. Around 1894 Obermeyer joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1907 he took over the duties of managing director of the construction workers' association in Essen. According to the Reichstag handbook, he carried out this activity at least until 1919.

From 1914 to 1919, Obermeyer held a public office for the first time as a city councilor in Essen . In January 1919 he entered the Weimar National Assembly for constituency 22 (Düsseldorf I) , of which he was a member until the first regular Reichstag of the Weimar Republic convened in June 1920, for which he was also a member of constituency 25 (Düsseldorf -East) received.

After leaving the Reichstag in May 1924, Obermeyer devoted himself more to state politics in Prussia . From 1928 to 1932 he sat in the Prussian state parliament and from 1928 he took part in a congress of the International Federation for Housing and Planning, an organization that was dedicated to solving the housing issue and promoting urban development, in Paris. There is hardly any information about his later years of life.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Karl Obermeyer in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Federation for Housing and Planning: International Housing and Town Planning Congress, Paris 1928 , 1928, p. 226.