Oswald Zimmermann

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Oswald Zimmermann

Oswald Franz Alexander Zimmermann (born February 5, 1859 in Neumarkt in Silesia, † October 5, 1910 in Dresden ) was a German journalist and politician ( DSRP ).

Life

Oswald Zimmermann became a member of the Old Breslau fraternity of the Raczeks during his studies in 1879 . He was later a central figure in party political anti-Semitism in the Kingdom of Saxony and at the national level. From 1890 to 1898 and 1904 to 1910 he was a member of the Reichstag . He participated in the founding of so-called reform associations in Saxony and united them with the Böckel movement to form the Anti-Semitic People's Party (later the German Reform Party ). The center of Zimmermann's sphere of activity was Dresden , where he published the Deutsche Wacht and his reform association dominated local politics for a long time. From 1903 to 1908 he was a member of the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament as a representative of the 10th urban constituency . Zimmermann died in Dresden in 1910 and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof .

Act

At the beginning of the 1890s, Zimmermann ousted Otto Böckel from the party leadership and initiated the unification of German socialists and “reformers” that was completed in 1894 . In the DSRP , he shared the chairmanship with Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg . The power struggle between Liebermann and Zimmermann escalated within the party when the reformers in their stronghold of Saxony could not assert themselves in the Reichstag elections in 1898 and Zimmermann himself was not elected to the Reichstag. When Liebermann then tried to gain sole control of the party, this led to a split in 1900. Zimmermann remained chairman of the trunk DSRP , which in 1903 renamed itself again to the German Reform Party.

Zimmermann and his “reformers” were able to benefit temporarily from the decline of political liberalism in Saxony and offer themselves in elections as a bourgeois functional party to prevent social democratic majorities. The growth of the SPD into a mass party and conflicts in cooperation with conservative and agrarian interest groups led to the decline of the anti-Semitic movement in Saxony. At the local and state level, the anti-Semites lost their importance due to the tightening of the electoral law.

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. 494.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 434-435.
  • Gerald Kolditz: On the development of anti-Semitism in Dresden during the German Empire. In: Dresdner Hefte. 45th volume, 1996, ISSN  0863-2138 , pp. 37-45.
  • Richard S. Levy : The downfall of the antisemitic parties in Imperial Germany. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1975, ISBN 0-300-01803-7 ( Yale historical Publications. Miscellany 106).
  • Matthias Piefel: Anti-Semitism and the Volkish Movement in the Kingdom of Saxony 1879–1914. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89971-187-4 ( Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research. Reports and Studies 46).
  • Hansjörg Pötzsch: Anti-Semitism in the region. Anti-Semitic manifestations in Saxony, Hesse, Hesse-Nassau and Braunschweig 1870–1914. = Anti-Semitic manifestations in the Kingdom of Saxony, in the Province of Hesse-Nassau, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and in the Duchy of Braunschweig at the time of the German Empire 1870 / 71–1914. Commission for the history of the Jews in Hessen , Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-921434-21-1 ( writings of the commission for the history of the Jews in Hessen 17), (at the same time: Braunschweig, Techn. Univ., Diss., 1997).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 3, 1910, p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Oswald Franz Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (German Social Reform Party), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumarkt , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1910
Place of death Dresden