Richard Fuchs (politician, 1873)

Richard Fuchs, 1911

Richard Fuchs (born September 4, 1873 in Wilsdruff ; † October 5, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German wood sculptor, politician and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Richard Fuchs, son of the master blacksmith Moritz Fuchs, attended the first community school in Wilsdruff and after leaving school the advanced training school. He learned the wood carving trade for 3 ½ years, traveled through central, northern and southern Germany, worked for a long time in Hanover , Verden , Speyer and most recently in Strasbourg . From 1898 he was a board member of the branch of the Sculptors Association in Strasbourg.

From January 1903 to 1918 he was a civil servant (= employee) at the Strasbourg local health insurance fund. From 1902 he was a member of the Schiltigheim municipal council, from 1906 a member of the Lower Alsace District Assembly and from 1911 a member of the second chamber of the Alsace-Lorraine Parliament .

In the Reichstag election in 1907 , he entered the constituency of Alsace-Lorraine 9 (Strasbourg-Land), but with 3,993 votes he only came in third behind Daniel Blumenthal (7,022 votes) and Dionysius Will (8,967 votes).

From 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen 9 ( Strasbourg-Land ) and the SPD .

After the First World War and the occupation of Alsace-Lorraine by France, the new French rulers summoned him to a Commission de Triage . From this he was expelled from Alsace-Lorraine in 1919.

From April 1920 to 1933, until the National Socialists came to power , he was an employee of the Central Employees' Association in Frankfurt am Main.

literature

Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mühlhausen 1911, page 187

Individual evidence

↑ Statistical Yearbook for Alsace-Lorraine 1909, page 276
↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Booklet 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 102 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250); see also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , 1531-1534.

Web links

Richard Fuchs in the database of members of the Reichstag
Richard Fuchs biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Richard Fuchs biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

personal data
SURNAME	Fuchs, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wilsdruff
DATE OF DEATH	October 5, 1938
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Statistical Yearbook for Alsace-Lorraine 1909, page 276

[2] Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Booklet 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 102 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250); see also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , 1531-1534.