Michael Burgau

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Michael Burgau

Michael Burgau (born March 25, 1878 in Regensburg ; † January 7, 1949 there ) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Life

After attending primary school from 1884 to 1891, Burgau learned the tailoring trade . In 1894 he joined the tailors' association. From 1899 he was active in the trade union movement and in the Social Democratic Party of Germany: in 1906 he was chairman of the cartel, in 1912 an employee of the transport workers 'union and in 1914 a workers' secretary.

From 1914 to at least 1919 Burgau was a member of the municipal council and poor council of Regensburg. From January 1919 to June 1920 he was a member of the SPD for constituency 25 (Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate) in the Weimar National Assembly . On April 7, 1919, Burgau proclaimed a Regensburg Soviet Republic , not out of conviction, but above all to maintain order in his city, analogous to the Munich Soviet Republic, which, however, was abolished - peacefully - after just three days. Burgau was a member of the German Reichstag from 1919/20 and from 1929 until the city council was dissolved in 1933, alongside parliamentary group chairman Karl Esser, Josef Adler, Josef Barth, Ludwig Ehrensperger, Hermann Engler and Josef Zollitsch, a member of the city council for the SPD Regensburg.

In 1934 and 1944 Michael Burgau was taken into protective custody again. His arrest in 1944 led him to the Flossenbürg concentration camp until he was liberated . After the end of the war he wrote a letter to the Allied rulers and the Lord Mayor of Regensburg to support those who had been persecuted by the Nazi regime.

Honors

  • Burgau was awarded the Silver Citizen Medal of the City of Regensburg in 1948 , an honor for citizens of the city who have made a special contribution to the well-being or reputation of the city.
  • Today the Michael-Burgau-Straße in Regensburg named after him reminds of Burgau.

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Kick: Tell our children. Resistance 1933–1945, example Regensburg. Tesdorpf, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-924-90506-1 , p. 71.
  2. ^ Documentation of the members of the German Reichstag from 1919–1933. at bundestag.de, accessed on February 18, 2015 (PDF, p. 12.)
  3. ^ Reminder of the dissolution of the city council in 1933 at regensburg.de, accessed on February 18, 2015.
  4. ^ Silver Citizen Medal - 1948. on regensburg.de, accessed on February 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Burgau, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1949
Place of death regensburg