Ludwig Waigand

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Ludwig Waigand (born September 15, 1866 in Kützberg in the Schweinfurt district ; † January 7, 1923 in Bremen ) was a German typesetter and politician (SPD). Among other things, he was a member of the Bundestag in Bremen and a member of the Reichstag.

biography

Youth and education

Waigand was the son of a stone mason. He attended elementary school , completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter and attended advanced training school in Arnstein . Later he worked for several years in different printing houses in different places. In 1889 he came to Bremen and married in 1893.

Political activity in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic

Waigand became a member of the union. In the 1890s he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and soon became a party official. For the SPD he was a member of the Bremen citizenship from 1902 to 1923 . There he belonged to the left wing of the party from 1903 to 1910, then to the reformist party grouping. In the SPD in Bremen he was a member of the youth and newspaper commissions for many years. In 1906 he was a co-founder of the consumer cooperatives Vorwärts . He also worked as a typesetter for the Bremer Bürgerzeitung and at times as an editor. In 1912 he was appointed District Secretary for the Hamburg Northwest District. In 1914 he also worked on the central aid committee of the German Red Cross . In World War I Waigand supported the line of the SPD party leadership in support of the war policy of the Reich government and he joined in the split of the party of the MSPD under Friedrich Ebert and Philipp Scheidemann .

In 1919/20 Waigand was a member of the constituent Bremen National Assembly and he was a member of the important constitutional committee. In the Reichstag election of June 1920 , Waigand was elected as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 16 (Weser-Ems) in the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , of which he was a member until his death in January 1923. In addition, Waigand continued to work for socialist newspapers such as the Bremer Bürger Zeitung . In 1922 he was a co-founder of the German Republican Reich Federation . He also wrote some short stories.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Ernst Moring: The Social Democratic Party in Germany 1890-1914 , 1968, p. 130.
  2. ↑ Doris Kachulle / Clara Cancer / Anna Pöhland: The Pöhlands in the war , 1982, p 242nd
personal data
SURNAME Waigand, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (SPD, MSPD), MdBB, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Kützberg
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1923
Place of death Bremen