Konrad Ludwig (politician)

Konrad Ludwig

Konrad Ludwig (born April 9, 1880 in Gersdorf (Leinburg) near Nuremberg, † August 15, 1935 in Petershagen / Eggersdorf ) was a German party official and politician.

Life

Ludwig first attended elementary school and then worked as a carpenter until 1907 . In 1899 he settled in Hagen . There he was employed in a furniture store. From 1900 to 1902 he was chairman of the union cartel, from 1904 to 1906 chairman of the paying office of the woodworkers' association in Hagen and from 1904 to 1911 a member of the supervisory board of the consumer association in Hagen. From 1907 to 1917 Ludwig was party secretary of the SPD in the constituency of Hagen- Schwelm , then from 1918 to 1921 for the USPD as district secretary for Westphalia and later as a cashier in the party executive. After re-joining the SPD in September 1922, he also served there as the main cashier. After the death of President Friedrich Ebert , Ludwig was commissioned by the party executive to set up the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

In addition to his work in the party administrations of the SPD and USPD, Ludwig also took on a number of political mandates. From 1907 to 1922 he was a city councilor in Hagen. In 1919/20 he was a member of the constituent Prussian state assembly and thereafter, until his resignation on June 7, 1921, a member of the Prussian state parliament . From 1920 to March 1924 and then again from December 1924 to 1930 he was a member of the Reichstag .

His daughter was Dora Lösche (1906–1985), who later became a member of the German Bundestag .

Publications

• Prussia. Election law to the state parliament, provincial election law, district election law. Verl.-Genossensch. “Volksstimme”, Hagen i. W. [1920] (= Explanations of the law for workers and employees, booklet 5)

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 .
• Bernd Faulenbach , Stefan Goch , Günther Högl, Karsten Rudolph , Uwe Schledorn: Social democracy in transition: the district of Western Westphalia 1893-2001 . 4th edition. Essen: Klartext, 2001 ISBN 3-89861-062-4 , p. 94.
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates for the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 128.

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Ludwig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Konrad Ludwig in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Konrad Ludwig . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Biography of Konrad Ludwig . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)