Karl Pinkau

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Karl Pinkau

Johann Carl Pinkau (born June 1, 1859 in Thonberg ; † August 26, 1922 in Leipzig ) was a German lithographer , photographer and politician ( SAPD ).

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Karl Marx, photo by John Mayall in 1875. Copy by Karl Pinkau.

Carl Pinkau was born the son of the wheelwright and house owner Johann Carl Pinkau (1817–1878) and his second wife. His older half-brother was the later postcard maker Emil Pinkau . After attending primary school in Thonberg from 1867 to 1875; completed an apprenticeship in lithography (1875–1879) and served in the 106th Infantry Regiment in Leipzig from 1881–1883 .

Around 1880 Pinkau joined the Social Democratic Party, for which he was active in agitation. During the persecution of the Socialists under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , Pinkau was arrested several times and sentenced to four months in prison on September 21, 1886 for driving out August Bebel's book Die Frau und der Sozialismus . After serving his sentence, he was expelled from Leipzig. He lived for a long time in Borsdorf together with Wilhelm Liebknecht in a house. In 1889 he took part in the International Workers' Congress in Paris, and in 1893 in Zurich , where he met Friedrich Engels .

Pinkau worked as a photographer from 1893. With Alfred August Otto Gehler, he founded the Pinkau & Gehler company at Turnerstrasse 11 in Leipzig. The people he photographed included Eduard Bernstein and Wilhelm Metzger , Friedrich Geyer , Karl and Luise Kautsky and others.

On August 27, 1890, Pinkau was elected chairman of the Leipzig trade union cartel. From 1894 to 1898 and from 1904 to 1908 he was a city councilor in Leipzig. From 1893 to 1896 he also sat in the state parliament of Saxony . When Wilhelm Liebknecht was preparing his book Karl Marx in memory on a trip to England, Pinkau was his companion. Pinkau contributed the photograph shown here and the photo of Marx's grave to this memorial.

On April 23, 1895 he married Marie Amalie Henriette Bonitz (born March 19, 1874). The marriage had three children: Karl Hermann (1896–1958); Willy Alfred (* 1898) and Johanna Charlotte Margarete (* 1903).

In October 1906, Pinkau was re-elected as a substitute for the late MP Karl Grünberg in the Reichstag for the constituency of Saxony 10. After resigning from parliament in January 1907, he was able to return to the Reichstag in January 1912, to which he belonged this time as a representative of his old constituency until the collapse of the monarchy in Germany in November 1918 .

In January 1919 Pinkau was elected to the Weimar National Assembly, in which he represented constituency 29 (Saxony 10-14) until June 1920. From June 1920 until his death in August 1922 he was a member of the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic as a representative of constituency 32 (Leipzig). Pinkau died in August 1922 as a result of an operation. Part of his photographic legacy has been in the City History Museum in Leipzig since 1989 .

Fonts

  • Off to the Reichstag election! Forward to the general vote for photographer Karl Pinkau in Leipzig Reich candidate of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Voters of the 20th Reichstag constituency! The Reichstag election took place on Friday, March 18, 1896 .
  • Statistical notebook . Leipziger Buchdrucker Aktiengesellschaft, Leipzig 1911

literature

  • Κарл Μаркс Фридрих Знглъс. Соърние Фотогарафий . Плакат, Москва 1976
  • Helga Berndt: Biographical sketches of Leipzig worker functionaries. Documentation on the 100th anniversary of the Socialist Law 1878-1980. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1978, p. 199 ff.
  • Ebert, Karin: Karl Pinkau - photographer and social democrat . In: Leipzig from the past and the present. Contributions to the history of the city . Leipzig 1990, pp. 105-155
  • Karin Ebert: Karl Pinkau. Social Democrat and Photographer , in: Leipziger Blätter No. 19, 1991, pp. 89–91
  • 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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Helga Berndt, p. 199; Max Schwarz erroneously mentions August 24th.
  2. ^ Front: "Karl Pinkau Leipzig". Back: “Photographisches Atelier Karl Pinkau Telephon No. 981 Leipzig Tauchaerstrasse 9. The plate will be kept for re-ordering. Enlargements after each picture in artistic execution ”. And handwritten: "F56".
  3. ↑ Your name given here so far Johanne Charlotte , geb. Wendel (1820–1850) is wrong. She was Johann Carl Pinkau's first wife and died in 1850, giving birth to her son Emil Pinkau .
  4. ↑ Kürschner Handbook of the German Reichstag 1912 - 1917, p. 294.
  5. ↑ Engels also gave him photographs of Engels and Marx, which he was allowed to copy and which he was allowed to offer his comrades for sale.
  6. ↑ This writes Eduard Bernstein to Engels on September 5, 1894. And finally a request for a third party, Motteler today was with me and told me Pinkau would have liked a picture of you, but not had the courage to ask you about . Jul thinks he will then make an enlargement like the Liebknechtsche . (Eduard Bernstein. Correspondence with Friedrich Engels, pp. 412f.).
  7. ↑ Gehler, b. In 1866 was the best man at Pinkau's wedding.
  8. ↑ studio address
  9. ↑ see original prints in IISG Amsterdam.
  10. ↑ Karl Marx on memory. An outline of life and memories. Including 1 portrait of Marx, the image of his grave and 2 facsimiles - reproductions of Marx 'and Engels' , Wörlein & Comp., Nuremberg 1896.
  11. ↑ Socialist Monthly Bullets , 1922, p. 1015 erroneously mention August 28th as the date of death.
personal data
SURNAME Pinkau, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinkau, Johann Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer, photographer and politician (SAPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Thonberg
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1922
Place of death Leipzig