Paul Sauerbrey

Paul Sauerbrey (born November 16, 1876 in Martinroda , † December 4, 1932 in Solingen-Ohligs ) was a German politician (SPD, USPD).

Sauerbrey was born the son of a laborer. He attended elementary school from 1883 to 1901 . He then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from 1891 to 1894. In the 1890s he joined the SPD . In 1901 he married. From 1907 to 1911 Sauerbrey was district workers and trade union secretary for Großbreitenbach and the surrounding area. He then worked for various party newspapers and was district manager of the German woodworkers' association in Friedrichroda for a year . From 1912 he was secretary of the Barmen-Elberfeld trade union commission.

During the First World War , Sauerbrey left the SPD to join the USPD , a newly founded party composed primarily of members of the left wing of the SPD who were dissatisfied with the war policy of the SPD leadership. In early 1920 Sauerbrey was charged with the murder of the Langenspien spies.

In the Reichstag election of June 1920 Sauerbrey was elected as a USPD candidate for constituency 25 (Düsseldorf-Ost) in the first Reichstag , to which he belonged until the May 1924 election. Around 1922 Sauerbrey left the USPD and returned to the SPD, whose parliamentary group he belonged to for the remainder of this first legislative period of the Weimar Republic. He was also a city councilor in Barmen .

From 1922 to 1929 Sauerbrey was the last mayor of the municipality of Ohligs until it merged with Solingen. He was elected to office with the votes of the USPD and SPD.

The Ohligser Sauerbreystraße was named after him.

Web links

• Paul Sauerbrey in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich Klein / Klaus-Jürgen Scherer: Citizens' Councils Against the Labor Movement , 1976, p. 27.
2. ↑ http://www.solingen-internet.de/si-hgw/sozialdemokratie.htm .