Robert Jansen (politician)

Robert Jansen (born July 18, 1881 in Cologne , † after 1924) was a German journalist and politician ( DDP ).

Life

After graduating from high school, Jansen studied German literature, economics and modern history for five years. From 1905 to 1910 he worked as an editor in Essen and Hamburg . From 1910 to 1913 he was editor-in-chief at the Kieler Zeitung and from 1913 to 1919 in the same function at the Solinger Generalanzeiger . During his journalistic activities he wrote critical writings against the conservative politics of the empire .

After the November Revolution, Jansen joined the German Democratic Party (DDP). In January 1920 he was elected chief executive of the DDP, whose Reich office he headed from February 1920 to October 1922. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly . In February 1921 he was elected to the Prussian Landtag as a state nomination by the DDP , to which he belonged until 1924. He was also a member of the parliamentary advisory board of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Territories.

Fonts

• The United Liberals in the Hamburg Parliament. 1910.
• The Berlin military coup and its political consequences. 1920.

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Issue for the 1st electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1921, p. 263.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Konstanze Wegner : Left liberalism in the Weimar Republic. The governing bodies of the German Democratic Party and the German State Party 1918–1933 (= sources on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Series 3: The Weimar Republic. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-770-05104-1 , p. 73.