Richard Illge

Richard Illge (second row from top, second from left) and the other members of the social democratic faction of the Saxon state parliament, 1909

Reinhold Richard Illge (born September 21, 1868 in Gohlis , † December 8, 1948 in Leipzig ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Live and act

After a typesetter teacher, Illge worked as a stone printer. From 1887 he was an employee at the Leipzig voter . From April 1890 to October 1894 he was an editor at the social democratic Volksblatt in Halle . In October 1894 he became a citizen and from then on worked as an editor for the Leipziger Volkszeitung . He was dismissed from the Leipziger Buchdrucker-AG in 1917 as a majority socialist. After the end of the First World War he was involved in building up the Free Press. In 1922 he was able to rejoin the editorial team of the Leipziger Volkszeitung before he retired in 1925.

From 1909 to 1918 he represented the constituency of the City of Leipzig 3 in the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament of the Kingdom of Saxony . After the end of the war he was also a member of the Saxon People's Chamber in 1919/20 .

Fonts

• On the suffrage movement in Saxony. Leipzig 1903
• Ten years under the three-class injustice, a memorandum on the electoral movement in Saxony. Leipzig 1906

literature

• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 400.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Illge in the catalog of the German National Library