Leonhard Tauscher

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Leonhard Tauscher (born June 15, 1840 in Regensburg , † December 16, 1914 in Stuttgart ) was a German social democratic politician.

Life

Leonhard Tauscher was the son of a master shoemaker . He attended grammar school (until 1854) and then trained as a typesetter and had owned a printing works in Augsburg since 1865 . In 1865, Tauscher joined the General German Workers' Association . In 1868 he became president of the party-affiliated union Allgemeine Deutsche Manufakturarbeiterschaft. In the election to the German customs parliament in 1868, Tauscher was to run as a substitute for Karl Barth. In 1869 he was one of the key co-founders of the ADAV community in Munich and thus laid the foundation for the emergence of a social democratic movement in the Bavarian capital.

On July 4, 1869, the General Social Democratic Party was founded in Bavaria. Exchanger was u. a. Delegate from Ansbach . It was decided: “That the solution of the social question can and must only be brought about by the working class itself. (…) The members of the same profess themselves to the principles proclaimed by the International and undertake to bring them to bear in all strata of the population through word, writing and action ”. With Carl Wilhelm Tölcke , Tauscher still belonged to the forces in the ADAV that wanted to blow up the founding congress of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) in 1869. But at the end of 1869, Tauscher came into conflict with Johann Baptist von Schweitzer .

At the Stuttgart party congress of the SDAP from July 4th to 7th, 1870 he represented Augsburg. In July – August 1870, Tauscher was imprisoned for “insulting the armed forces”. He became editor of the central organ of the proletariat . He took part in the SDAP congresses in 1871 and 1874. At the Coburg Congress in 1874, Tauscher demanded the removal of Lassalle's thesis of the "productive cooperatives with state aid". From 1876 to 1878 he was editor of the newspaper Volkswille and from 1875 to 1880 technical director of the "Genossenschaftsdruckerei Augsburg". From August 20 to 23, 1880, an illegal SPD congress met at Wyden Castle in Switzerland . Tauscher was one of the delegates. During the Socialist Law , he was appointed head of the "Zurich Cooperative Printing Office". From 1880 to 1888 in Zurich and then until 1890 in London . Because of his big nose, Tauscher was nicknamed Naso . Alongside him, on April 18, 1888, Julius Motteler , Eduard Bernstein and Hermann Schlueter were expelled from Zurich under pressure from the German government. The Social Democrat was printed in the cooperative printer and distributed illegally in the German Reich with the so-called “ Red Field Post ”. In London, Tauscher met Friedrich Engels personally, as can be seen from his 'memories' and from a letter from Engels.

After the Socialist Law came to an end, he worked as a proofreader at JHW Dietz Verlag in Stuttgart and was also the editor of the Swabian Tagwacht between 1893 and 1903 . He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in the 1890s for expressions critical of religion. He took part as a delegate at the party congresses of the SPD in 1898 and 1899. In Hanover in 1899 he came out against Bernstein's arguments for revisionism .

Tauscher was a member of the municipal council in Stuttgart between 1906 and 1914 . From 1900 to 1914 he was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg . As the senior president of the state parliament, he spoke out against the war preparations several times.

Works

  • A reminder to my brothers in town and country, in blouse as well as in blue royal skirt . Print by Jos. Rackl, Augsburg 1880
  • Memories from the time under socialist law . In: Illustrated New World Calendar for 1912 . Hamburg 1912, pp. 39-42

literature

  • D. Malik: Tauscher, Leonhard . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 453–454
  • Dieter Fricke: The German labor movement 1869-1914. A manual about their organization and activity in the class struggle . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976
  • Willy Albrecht: Leonhard Tauscher and the General German Workers' Association in Bavaria . In: Hartmut Mehringer (Ed.): From the class movement to the people's party. Landmarks of the Bavarian Social Democracy 1892-1992 . Saur, Munich 1992 ISBN 3-598-22024-3 , pp. 34-39 (series of publications by the Georg von Vollmar Academy 5)
  • Heinrich Gemkow : A rediscovered memory of Friedrich Engels . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 1994. Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1994 ISBN 3-88619-745-X , pp. 256-258
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 922 .
  • Claus-Peter Clasen (ed.): Strike stories, the Augsburg textile workers' strikes 1868-1934 . Wißner, Augsburg 2008 (publications of the Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Commission for Bavarian State History 1) ISBN 978-3-89639-647-1

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Möller: Bourgeois rule in Augsburg. 1790-1880 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, p. 414.
  2. ^ The First International in Germany (1864-1872). Documents and materials . Berlin 1964, p. 382.
  3. ↑ Dieter Fricke, p. 39.
  4. ↑ Richard Fischer was one of Tauscher's colleagues . (See Eduard Bernstein : Richard Fischer zum Gedächtnis . In: Sozialistische Monatshefte . 32 (1926), Heft 10, pp. 671-672).
  5. ↑ He represented Augsburg and Lechhausen here (Dieter Fricke, p. 53.)
  6. ↑ Dieter Fricke, p. 146.
  7. ^ Memories from the time under socialist law . Pp. 40-42.
  8. ↑ “Do you want and will Tauscher do me the favor of eating at my place on Sunday at two - thirty ?” (Friedrich Engels to Hermann Schlüter June 15, 1888. In: Marx-Engels-Werke Vol. 37, p. 68.)
  9. ↑ D. Malik, p. 454.
personal data
SURNAME Tauscher, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1914
Place of death Stuttgart