Paul Ristau

Paul Ristau (born June 26, 1876 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † September 4, 1961 in Dresden ) was a German politician (SPD, USPD).

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Ristau attended the community school in Brandenburg an der Havel. Then he learned the ice-cream glove- making trade . Around 1895 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He also became a union member . From 1907 to 1908 Ristau attended the SPD party school in Berlin . After completing the same, he took on official duties as a workers' secretary in the cities of Arnstadt and Kiel and from 1914 to at least 1920 in Dresden .

During the First World War , Ristau left the SPD to join the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), a newly founded party made up primarily of members of the left wing of the SPD who were dissatisfied with the war policy of the SPD leadership .

In the first Reichstag election of the Weimar Republic in June 1920 , Ristau was elected to the Reichstag , to which he belonged until the election in May 1924 as a representative of constituency 31 (Dresden-Bautzen).

From January 1, 1922 to March 31, 1923, Ristau served as Labor Minister of the State of Saxony in the Buck III cabinet .

Web links

• Paul Ristau in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Portrait Ministerialrat Paul Ristau , Conrad Felixmüller (1897–1977), 1927, in the Galerie Neue Meister

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber : German constitutional history since 1789. Volume VI: The Weimar Imperial Constitution . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1981, p. 804.