Michel Heysch

Michel Heysch (born March 2, 1861 in Gambsheim , † March 22, 1940 in Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines ) was a German politician ( SPD Alsace-Lorraine ).

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Michel Heysch, who was a Catholic denomination, attended elementary school and the advanced training school in Paris. From 1893 he was a cabinet maker and independent master carpenter in Strasbourg-Neudorf.

In 1902/1908 he was a member of the Strasbourg City Council and a member of the Building Tax Assessment Commission.

In the first (and only) election to the Second Chamber of the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , he stood as a candidate for the SPD in the constituency of Schirmeck-Saales-Rosheim. In the first ballot, 5791 votes were cast in the constituency of the 7075 eligible voters. Heysch received 2,218 votes , the center candidate Anselm Laugel 2505 and the liberal candidate Claude 862 votes. In the second ballot, Heysch prevailed with 3,240 votes against Laugel, who had received 2,892 votes. Michel Heysch was a member of the state parliament until 1918.

After Alsace became French again in 1918, he became a member of the Communist Party and from 1928 a member of the Alsatian Communists. From 1919 to 1925 and 1935 he was municipal conseiller and from 1929 adjoint au maire in Strasbourg.

literature

• Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mulhouse 1911, page 195

Web links

• Michel Heysch's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)