Louis Schlegel

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Friedrich Louis Schlegel (born October 30, 1858 in Terpitz , † February 25, 1929 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

After attending elementary school in Dittmannsdorf , Louis Schlegel did a belt apprenticeship in Geringswalde from 1872 to 1875 . In 1875 he went on a journey as a journeyman in Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Austria-Hungary. He worked as a belt maker in Altenburg , Dresden and Elberfeld , from where he moved to Esslingen in May 1880. There he was Gürtlermeister (Silberplattierer) and co-founded a 1885 exception legally banned, trade union metalworker association. He moved to Budapest and contacted Julius Motteler in Zurich for several years . In February 1889 he settled permanently in Esslingen, where he received the Württemberg citizenship on July 3, 1890. First he worked in Esslingen, then in Göppingen , where he was dismissed after a strike in June 1891. Only fourteen days later he opened the Siglesche Bierhalle in Esslingen as a "party host " , later the Zur neue Welt inn , in which the Württemberg workers' society was founded on March 7, 1897.

politics

In October 1891 Schlegel became chairman of the local social democratic association in Esslingen, which he chaired several times until 1918. From 1903 to 1925 he sat for the SPD in the Esslingen municipal council. From 1899 to 1907 he was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Württemberg 5 ( Esslingen , Nürtingen , Kirchheim , Urach ). Two further Reichstag candidacies (1907 and 1912) were unsuccessful, but in 1912 he was only barely defeated in the runoff election with 49.9% of the valid votes cast.

In 1905 he was elected to replace the late Friedrich Ludwig von Gess in the Württemberg state parliament . He held this mandate until 1920. For reasons of age, he then renounced another candidacy. He was a member of the Esslingen Workers' Council from 1918.

family

Louis Schlegel was the son of the landowner Gottfried Arno Schlegel and Wilhelmine nee. Kolbe. He married Lydia Häußer (1860–1946) in 1889, with her he had ten children. The main burden of the extensive gastronomic operations (until 1924) in the New World lay on his wife's shoulders . None of her numerous children has emerged politically.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1218-1221.

literature

  • 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. 788 .
  • Sylvia Greiffenhagen (Hrsg.): "Haute-volée-Sozialdemokrats" and "Revolutionsfabrik." The history of the Esslingen SPD. Esslinger Studien, Series Volume 16, Sigmaringen 1995

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personal data
SURNAME Schlegel, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlegel, Friedrich Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR1
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Terpitz
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1929
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar