Oskar Trinks

Oskar Trinks (born January 26, 1873 in Dörnthal , † January 8, 1952 in Mössingen ) was a German politician (SPD).

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Trinks was born as the son of a bricklayer in the Ore Mountains . After attending primary schools in Dörnthal and Ullersdorf from 1879 to 1887, Trinks completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. In the following years he traveled as a craftsman to Thuringia, Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, Rhineland, Westphalia, Hanover, Braunschweig and other cities. From 1893 to 1895 Trinks was a member of Infantry Regiment No. 113. He then settled down as a carpenter in Durlach , where he worked in his profession until 1905. From 1900 to 1907 he sat on the citizens' committee of Durlach, where he was also a member of the city council in Karlsruhe in 1911 . In 1905 he became warehouse manager at the newly founded Durlach consumer association. In 1907 he became secretary of the SPD in Baden, in which in 1908 he took over the district party secretariat for Mittelbaden , based in Karlsruhe, a function which he held until 1932. Twice, 1909 to 1914 and 1927 to 1928 he was a member of the city council.

In 1912 Trinks ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag in the Pforzheim-Durlach constituency . In 1909 and 1913 he ran, also unsuccessfully, in runoff elections in the Karlsruhe-Land constituency for the Baden state parliament. During the First World War , Trinks fought in Galicia , Macedonia , the Carpathian Mountains and France.

In January 1919 Trinks was elected to the Weimar National Assembly, of which he was a member until the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic met in June 1920 as a representative of constituency 33 (Baden). In 1926 he became a member of the district council. In 1928 Trinks came to the Baden state parliament as a replacement . After his mandate was confirmed in October 1929, he was a member of the Baden parliament until 1933.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in the spring of 1933, Trinks tried to leave Karlsruhe in order to evade the access of the National Socialists. In March and April 1933 he was imprisoned in the Kislau concentration camp . In the further years of the Nazi regime he was arrested three more times. The end of the Second World War saw Trinks in Tübingen.

After the war, Trinks took part in the establishment of the Tübingen local health insurance fund, while his wife Emma, ​​together with Kunigunde Fischer and others, organized the reconstruction of the workers' welfare in Karlsruhe. In 1950 Trinks retired. He died two years later, in 1952, in Mössingen.

Today, among other things, Oskar-Trinks-Strasse in Leimen is a reminder of Trink's life and political activities.

literature

• Manfred Koch: The focus is on people: Parliamentary speeches from Karlsruhe SPD deputies , 2001, pp. 112–119.

Web links

• Oskar Trinks in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Speeches by Oskar Trinks in the Baden State Parliament in the digital collections of the Baden State Library