Klemens Hengsbach

Klemens Hengsbach (born March 16, 1857 in Cologne ; † March 19, 1940 there ) was a German social democratic politician and member of the Reichstag.

Klemens Hengsbach

Life

After attending primary school in Cologne, he learned to be a carpenter . From 1876 to 1881 he was on his journeyman's journey in Germany and Switzerland ; he spent two years in Switzerland. After his return he started his own business as a master carpenter in Cologne. Because of a lung disease, he had to give up the job. In 1882, Hengsbach was one of the co-founders of the Cologne Carpenter's Association. This was later converted into a paying agency of the German Woodworkers' Association , to which he still belonged. Between 1886 and 1892 he was a salaried agent for the Hamburg Central Bank of Carpenters in Cologne. He then became a travel agent from 1892 and, in 1894, sales representative for the Rheinische Zeitung . He practiced this profession until 1922.

In 1883 he joined the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (1875) , later the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After the end of the Socialist Law in 1890, he was a member of the Social Democratic Association in Cologne. In 1893 he became chairman of the party in Cologne city. From 1906 he was the company sponsor of the Niederrheinische Arbeiterzeitung based in Duisburg . In 1898 he ran in vain for the Reichstag, to which he was a member from 1907 to 1912. He represented the constituency of Duisburg - Mülheim - Ruhrort . Another candidacy failed. Between 1911 and 1931 he was a member of the party's central arbitration commission ; between 1931 and 1933 he was chairman of this body.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): Statistics of the Reichstag elections of 1907. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1907, p. 88 (special publication on the quarterly books on statistics of the German Reich) - Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: Die Reichstag elections of 1867 to 1907. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition supplemented by an appendix. Addendum. The Reichstag election of 1907 (12th legislative period). Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1908, p. 48.

Web links

• Klemens Hengsbach in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Klemens Hengsbach . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Biography of Klemens Hengsbach . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Biography of Klemens Hengsbach . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)