Otto Reimer

Otto Reimer

Otto Reimer (also Georg Otto Reimers ; born May 26, 1841 in Hildesheim , † March 1, 1892 in Hamburg ) was a German social democratic politician and trade unionist .

After attending primary school, Reimer became a cigar worker, later went into business for himself, worked as a newspaper reporter and finally became a cigar dealer in Hamburg and Altona .

In 1867 he joined the ADAV and the Cigar Workers Union. In the same year he was a representative of the union and between 1873 and 1876 of the ADAV in Hamburg. Between 1874 and 1877 he was a Social Democratic member of the Reichstag for the constituency of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein 9 (Oldenburg i. H.). He was also a member of the central SAPD party committee in 1875/76. After losing his mandate and his immunity, Reimer was expelled from Hamburg in 1880. Reimer then emigrated to the USA . After the end of the Socialist Law , he returned to Germany and worked as an employee of the Hamburg Echoes from 1891 until his death .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hirth's Parliamentary Almanac. Volume 10. Berlin 1874, p. 240.
2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 113.

literature

• Otto Reimer † . In: The True Jacob . No. 148, 1892, p. 1216 ( digitized version ).
• 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 .

Web links

Commons : Otto Reimer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Otto Reimer in the database of members of the Reichstag