Max Winkler (politician, 1876)

Max Winkler (bottom row, middle) and the other members of the social democratic faction of the Saxon state parliament, 1909

Johann Max Winkler (born August 11, 1876 in Hof , † November 15, 1946 in Dresden ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and union official. During the Weimar Republic he was President of the Saxon State Parliament .

Live and act

Winkler, who comes from the Franconian court, first attended an elementary school before he began and completed an apprenticeship as a weaver . After he had joined the union in 1902, he acted from October 1906 to 1909 as Gauleiter of the textile workers' association for the Vogtland , based in Reichenbach . In addition, he became a board member of the Reichenbacher Ortskrankenkasse in Reichenbach in 1905, was a workers' representative in the tariff commission for the Vogtland in 1905/06 and chairman of the supervisory board of the Reichenbach consumer association in 1906/07.

After the plural suffrage for the II. Landtag Chamber was reintroduced in the Kingdom of Saxony in 1909 , he became a member of the Landtag in 1909/10 as a representative of the 43rd rural constituency. He retained this mandate until the November Revolution of 1918. As a result, he was elected for the SPD in the 3rd constituency of the Saxon People's Chamber and the Saxon State Parliament. There he took over the office of secretary in the presidium from 1919 to 1922 and that of the state parliament president from 1922 to 1926 and then left the state parliament.

From 1909 to 1920 Winkler was managing director of the textile workers' association in Dresden , most recently as Gauleiter. In 1921 he took over the post of tariff office manager in Dresden-Briesnitz , which he held until 1926. Until 1944 he was listed as a resident of Briesnitz in the Dresden address books.

literature

• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 491.
• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952. Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2001, p. 141f.
• Josef Matzerath: Winkler, Johann Max . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 803.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cotta registry office (3), death register, certificate no. 3626
2. ↑ Max Winkler was registered at "Auf dem Reigen 17" in Dresden until 1944. See address book of the Gau- und Landeshauptstadt Dresden , 1944. Available online under historical address books