Max Quarck

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Max Quarck

Ernst Max Quarck (born April 9, 1860 in Rudolstadt , Thuringia , † January 21, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German SPD politician . His wife was Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag (1864–1954), the first female magistrate in Frankfurt am Main.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Rudolstadt, Quarck studied law and economics at the University of Leipzig from 1880 . During his studies he joined the Philosophical Society , where he was influenced by the writings of Karl Rodbertus . In 1883 he received his doctorate in law. He was then a trainee lawyer until 1886. Because of alleged involvement in an attempted coup, he was dismissed from the Saxon civil service in 1886 and was unable to complete his second state examination. That is why he joined the Deutsche Zeitung in Vienna as an editor in the same year , but switched to the Frankfurter Zeitung as early as 1887 , where he came under the influence of Leopold Sonnemann . In 1892 he helped found the papers for social practice . From 1895 he was editor of the Volksstimme in Frankfurt am Main and lived at Friedrichstrasse 1 (today's street name: Im Heimgarten) in the newly created Heimgarten estate in the Frankfurt suburb of Seckbach .

In 1916 he married Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag , who brought a daughter into the marriage. Max's son Martin died as a soldier in the First World War in 1916 near Verdun . His name is written on a plaque on the memorial for those who fell in the Frankfurt district of Seckbach.

From December 1918 Quarck was an alderman in the Reich Office of the Interior . From 1921 he held teaching positions at the Academy of Labor and later, from 1925, at the University of Frankfurt .

The Quarck couple moved into a manorial town house on Röderbergweg in Frankfurt's Ostend , which had once belonged to the highest chemical manufacturer Wilhelm Chrysostomus Heinrichs, Meta Quarck-Hammerschlag's father. The property's former coach house, a historicizing half-timbered house, was used both as a library and work space. It also served as the first office of the Hessen-Nassau Workers' Welfare Association.

Political party

Originally a member of the Democratic Association in Frankfurt, Quarck, who had changed from social-conservative origins to left-wing liberalism to social democrats, joined the SPD in 1894. In the discussion about the SPD's agricultural program, he spoke out in favor of state support for small businesses, which earned him criticism from the left wing of the party: he denied the historical necessity of the trend towards large-scale operations and thus endangered the possibility of socialization in the countryside. He was a member of the program commission for the 1921 Görlitz program .

MP

Quarck was a city councilor in Frankfurt am Main from 1900 to 1912. From 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Frankfurt am Main . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly .

Publications

  • Two lost political papers by Rodbertus . Publishing house of "German Words", Vienna 1885
  • The labor protection legislation in the German Empire. A sociopolitical study for the broadest circles . JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1886.
  • The workers' brotherhood of 1848/49. Memories of the class struggles of the first German revolution . Edited and introduced. Gerhold, Frankfurt 1900
  • Social struggles in Frankfurt am Main. From the Middle Ages to the threshold of the great revolution . Volksstimme bookstore, Frankfurt am Main 1911
  • From the peace resolution to the revolution. One year of revolutionary work in the Reichstag . Union, Frankfurt a. M. 1918
  • The new imperial constitution. Their creation and their structure. Commonly presented . Singer, Berlin 1919
  • Gustav Quarck / Anton Quarck (eds.): The Quarck family from Rudolstadt. Represented in cultural history by Max Quarck . Gustav Quarck Publishing House, Rudolstadt 1922
  • Against prostitution and venereal diseases . Engelmann, Berlin 1921
  • Social policy. Explanations of the Görlitz program . JHW Dietz Nachf., Stuttgart 1922
  • The first German labor movement. History of the workers' brotherhood 1848/49. A contribution to the theory and practice of Marxism . Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1924
  • Andreas V. Knack / Max Quarck: The Reich law to combat venereal diseases and its practical implementation . Publishing house of the Main Committee for Workers' Welfare Berlin, Berlin 1928
  • History of the German Transport Association . Edited by the board of the German Transport Association. Courier, Berlin 1929

Honors

  • According to him, the Max Quarck Street , the former Meranerstraße in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen named.
  • On the occasion of its 90th anniversary in 2009, the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Frankfurt named the house of the AWO history workshop in Röderbergweg in Frankfurt's Ostend meta-and-Max-Quarck-Haus.

literature

  • Hanna Eckhardt: The history workshop in the Meta & Max Quarck house . Published by AWO District Association Frankfurt a. M. 2009
  • Kai Gniffke : Max Quarck (1860–1930). A social democratic career in the German Empire. On the rise of a bourgeois academic in the labor movement in the field of tension between revolutionary theory and reformist practice , dissertation 1992.
  • Kai Gniffke: Quarck, Max Ernst . In: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . P. 158 f.
  • Kai Gniffke: Comrade Dr. Quarck. Max Quarck - publicist, politician and patriot in the empire , Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-7829-0489-3
  • Max Quarck . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 243.
  • Ursula Ratz:  Quarck, Max Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 37 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Manfred Köhler: Max Quarck and Hermann Wendel . Social democratic contributions to Frankfurt city history. A memory . In: Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art , 63 (1997) pp. 437–455.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Seckbacher address book from 1898, Institute for Urban History of the City of Frankfurt am Main
  2. ↑ On the agricultural debates of the SPD cf. Andreas Dornheim: Social Democracy and Farmers - Agricultural Policy Positions and Problems of the SPD between 1890 and 1948, in: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Volume II / 2003.
  3. ↑ History workshop of the AWO

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personal data
SURNAME Quarck, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quarck, Ernst Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudolstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1930
Place of death Frankfurt am Main