Max Heldt

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Max Heldt
Prime Minister Max Heldt in front of the Dresden Kugelhaus during the opening of the annual show German Labor Dresden 1928

Max Wilhelm August Heldt (born November 4, 1872 in Potsdam , † December 27, 1933 in Dresden ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD , ASPD ).

Life

He was born as the son of the haulage owner August Heldt, who died in 1883. After attending primary school in Potsdam, Max Heldt learned the belt and metal lathe trade, attended the building trade school at the same time and, after completing his apprenticeship, worked as a metal lathe operator until 1904. While still working, he joined the trade union and until 1904 was a member of the board of the branch of the German Metalworkers' Association in Leipzig . He worked from July 1904 to March 1907 as a salaried Gauleiter of the Metalworkers' Association for Saxony in Dresden, from April 1907 to October 1918 as a union and workers secretary in Chemnitz and at the same time worked as chairman of the union cartel.

Max Heldt was Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony from January 4, 1924 to June 26, 1929 . Before that he was a member of the Saxon state governments. For the first time in October 1918 and still in the monarchy , Prime Minister Rudolf Heinze appointed him Minister without Portfolio. This later earned Heldt the reputation of a “royal Saxon social democrat”. Before that he was from 1909 as a representative of the 30th rural constituency member of the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament . From 1919 on, Max Heldt was a member of the state governments as Minister for Labor and Welfare (1919 to 1920) and Finance Minister (1920 to 1924). As a result of the events after the Reich execution of Erich Zeigner's government, Heldt ruled in a coalition with the DDP and DVP from 1924 , from January 1927 with the DDP, DVP and the Economic Party and from July 1927 to 1929 with the DDP, DVP, Economic Party , DNVP and People's Rights Party . From 1920 to 1929 he was also a member of the Reichsrat . From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the Saxon People's Chamber and from 1920 to 1926 and again from 1929 to 1930 a member of the Saxon Landtag .

For the first time on January 6, 1924, the state party congress of the Saxon SPD asked Max Heldt to dissolve the existing coalition and to start coalition negotiations with the KPD. Max Heldt and the majority of the SPD parliamentary group, who refused to do so, again knew that they were in agreement with the Reich Executive Committee of the SPD and the Reich President Friedrich Ebert (SPD). From this the " Saxony dispute " of the Social Democrats developed.

At the Saxon state party convention of the SPD on March 25, 1926, Max Heldt and the majority of the SPD state parliamentary group (23 members) were expelled from the party. On April 15, 1926, the SPD parliamentary group split up; 23 MPs, including Max Heldt, formed the "old social democratic faction". 18 MPs remained in the SPD parliamentary group. On June 6, 1926, Max Heldt and the 23 members of parliament founded the Old Saxony Social Democratic Party (ASPS). This was later called the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany (ASPD). On January 11, 1927, the state parliament re-elected Max Heldt as Prime Minister in the 5th ballot.

Max Heldt's ministerial presidency was the longest and most stable in Saxony during the Weimar Republic . The constant need to broaden the coalition, however, also exemplifies the erosion process of the democratic parties during this time.

After the dissolution of the ASPD in 1932, Heldt returned to the SPD.

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SURNAME Heldt, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heldt, Max Wilhelm August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD, ASPD), Member of the Bundestag, Minister, Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1933
Place of death Dresden