Paul Ziegler (politician, 1871)

Paul Ziegler

Paul Ziegler (born September 15, 1871 in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ), † 1945 in Erfurt ) was a German politician ( DDP ).

Life

After attending elementary school in Barmen Ziegler became a locksmith trained. He practiced his profession in various machine factories, before he worked from 1904 as a "local official" for the trade association of German mechanical and metal workers ( Hirsch-Duncker ), from 1907 as district manager of the Siegen secretariat.

From 1910 to 1929 Ziegler was a city councilor in Siegen. During the First World War , Ziegler was also a member of the local food administration deputation. 1918/1919 he was a member of the (bourgeois-oriented) municipal workers and soldiers council . He was chairman of the general local health insurance company in Siegen and chairman of the Westphalian health insurance association. He was a member of the board of the German Association of Health Insurance Funds. From 1929 to 1933 he headed the employment office of the city of Erfurt.

In January 1919 Ziegler was elected to the Weimar National Assembly. He then belonged to the Reichstag for four legislative terms from June 1920 to September 1930 as a representative of constituency 20 or (after renumbering the constituencies) 18 (Westphalia South). In parliament he was considered a representative of the left wing of the DDP.

On May 1, 1933, Ziegler became a member of the NSDAP .

Fonts

War wages and war profits in the Siegerland metal industry. 1918
The demand of the German Democratic Party. Active social policy. Speech in the Reichstag on June 26, 1924. 1924

literature

Gerhard Hufnagel: Interest and responsibility. The metal industry employers' associations of the Siegerland from the German Empire to the German dictatorship , Siegen: Vorländer 2000.
Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , pp. 206f.

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Ziegler in the catalog of the German National Library
Paul Ziegler in the database of members of the Reichstag
Paul Ziegler in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

↑ Life data according to Reichstag handbooks of the 1st to 4th legislative period of the Weimar Republic.
↑ Juergen C. Hess: "It should be the whole of Germany". Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-910820-3 , p. 124.
↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 636.

personal data
SURNAME	Ziegler, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German craftsman, trade union official and politician (DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barmen
DATE OF DEATH	1945
Place of death	Erfurt

[1] Life data according to Reichstag handbooks of the 1st to 4th legislative period of the Weimar Republic.

[2] Juergen C. Hess: "It should be the whole of Germany". Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-910820-3 , p. 124.

[3] Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 636.