Paul Löwigt
Paul Bernhard Heinrich Löwigt (born August 17, 1873 in Doberan ; † January 23, 1934 in Lübeck ) was a trained typesetter , editor of the Lübecker Volksbote and the first social democratic mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
Paul Löwigt came to Lübeck early and attended elementary school there from 1880 to 1888 . He then learned the profession of typesetter until 1892 . The subsequent rolling took him through Germany , parts of Switzerland and Bohemia . Then he worked in several northern German cities.
Back in Lübeck, Löwigt had been working in the printing press of the social democratic Lübeck Volksbote since autumn 1894 . With great zeal he endeavored to further educate himself in various fields of knowledge in the political and trade union movement, to which he belonged since 1892, he endeavored to promote the interests of the working population. In 1904 he became editor of the Lübecker Volksbote . As early as 1894 he had also worked as a journalist there.
For his election to the Senate , Löwigt had also been active for a long time in the socio-political area . He had already been elected as assessor at the insurance office and chairman or deputy chairman of the general local health insurance fund in Lübeck.
Since 1907 Löwigt was chairman of the social democratic association for the constituency of Lübeck. In 1909 he was elected to the Lübeck citizenship and in 1919 as their first spokesman.
Under the chairmanship of the deputy spokesman Eschenburg, the citizenship elected five new senators on March 31, 1919 after the republican change due to the new constitution. A 16-member commission formed for the purpose of submitting proposals had agreed on Paul Hoff (soc.) For the retiring Johann Hermann Eschenburg , Albert Henze (soc.) For the already retired Johann Georg Eschenburg , Carl Dimpker (dem.) For to propose Eduard Rabe , who had already left , Löwigt for the deceased Emil Possehl and Fritz Mehrlein (soc.) for Eduard Friedrich Ewers who had left . In the subsequent election made by the citizens, they were elected senators with 74, 74, 75, 74 and 72 votes.
From 1926 to the DC circuit by the Nazis he was on March 6, 1933, the first social democratic mayor of Lübeck and member of the Imperial Council .
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling , Lübeckische Ratslinie, Lübeck 1925, No. 1038
- Gerhard Schneider : Endangering and Loss of Statehood of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its Consequences ; Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1986, pp. 79-82 (on 1933) ISBN 3-7950-0452-7
- Joachim Lilla : The Reichsrat: Representation of the German states in the legislation and administration of the Reich 1919-1934 a biographical handbook with the involvement of the Bundesrat Nov. 1918 - Febr. 1919 and the State Committee Feb. - Aug. 1919. Düsseldorf: Droste 2006 ISBN 3 -7700-5279-X , pp. 126-127
- Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, pp. 165 ff
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6009 .
supporting documents
- ^ Constitutions of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- ^ The newly elected members of the Senate. ; In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1918/19, No. 14, edition of April 13, 1919, pp. 53-54.
- ↑ On the synchronization: A. Graßmann: Lübeckische Geschichte p. 710ff.
Web links
- Literature about Paul Löwigt in the state bibliography MV
- Paul Löwigt's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löwigt, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löwigt, Paul Bernhard Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Doberan |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1934 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |