Paul Bader (politician)

Paul Bader

Paul Bader (born February 13, 1865 in Altenkirchen on the island of Rügen , † April 4, 1945 in Greifswald ) was a German politician of the Weimar Republic and a member of the Reichstag ( SPD ). He was a member of the Reichstag from the 3rd to the 5th electoral term.

He attended the secondary school in Grabow in Mecklenburg and Greifswald and then studied mathematics, economics, history and literature in Greifswald between 1883 and 1887 . He then worked as a journalist. Between 1887 and 1899 he worked as an editor in Frankfurt am Main, in Neustadt ad H. and in Marburg for various newspapers and since 1899 as editor-in-chief of the social democratic Volksstimme in Magdeburg. He stayed with the Volksstimme until 1923.

In 1919 and 1920 he belonged to the constituent German national assembly and briefly succeeded Friedrich Stampfer for a short time at the SPD magazine Vorwärts . In 1924 he was elected to the Reichstag, which he should belong to for constituency 10 (Magdeburg) until 1932. After 1933 he stayed in Berlin for a few years before, in view of the increasing bombardment, he moved to Greifswald, where he died.

Literary work

Under the pseudonym Konrad Terbin, he wrote the tragedy The Law in 1914 , which was published by W. Pfannkuch & Co. in Magdeburg and premiered in 1921 at Magdeburg's Wilhelmtheater. He also wrote the works Astra (1922) as well as the two plays Strandräuber and Die versunkene Welt .

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

• The Reichstag Protocols 1919 to 1939
• Paul Bader in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
• Paul Bader in the database of members of the Reichstag