Robert Seidel (pedagogue)

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Robert Seidel, 1914

Robert Seidel (born November 23, 1850 in Kirchberg , † July 19, 1933 in Zurich ) was a German educator and journalist who was politically active in Switzerland .

Life

Seidel learned the cloth making trade and went to Crimmitschau in 1867 to work as a weaver there. A little later he retrained as a teacher and became vice president of the Crimmitschauer workers and education association. In 1869 he took part in the founding of the SPD in Eisenach .

In 1870 Seidel emigrated to Switzerland, where he again worked as a clothier journeyman. His places of activity were u. a. Feldbach, Horgen, Männedorf and Zurich. After commercial training, he became managing director of the printing and bookstore of the Grütlivereins and the “Tagwacht”. From 1879 to 1881 he attended the Küsnacht seminar and became a primary school teacher. From 1882 he went to the University of Zurich as an auscultant , where he remained until 1884. He then worked as a secondary teacher in Mollis until 1890 . He became editor-in-chief of Arbeiterstimme (Zurich), the official organ of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP), and co-founder of the newspaper Volksrecht . On the International Socialist Workers 'Congress 1893 in Zurich of the Second International , he was both the' Workers Union Zurich ', and for the' German Workers in São Paulo delegated ". In 1908 he qualified as a professor as teaching lecturer. He was in the Red Zurich with Georg Kerschensteiner to the fathers of the school reform towards the labor school .

Seidel was 1898–1916 and 1919–1921 for the SP on the Grand City Council of Zurich (1907–08 President), 1893–1896, 1899–1917 and 1920–1923 Cantonal Councilor . In the parliamentary elections in 1911 , he succeeded in entering the National Council , to which he was a member until 1917. Robert Seidel was in correspondence with Rosa Luxemburg .

Honors

Several streets in various places of activity were named after Robert Seidel, for example in Crimmitschau, Kirchberg and Zurich.

The memorial plaque attached to the house where he was born in Kirchberg was removed by the National Socialists in 1936. In 1955 a new memorial plaque was installed there by members of the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany .

Works

  • Out of the fighting and loneliness. Poems . JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1895
  • Belief in light and future suns . JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1908
  • Collected poems . JHW Dietz, Berlin 1925

literature

  • Seidel, Robert . In: Lexicon of socialist German literature . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1964, pp. 469–471

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minutes of the International Socialist Workers' Congress in the Tonhalle Zurich from 6 to 12 August 1893 . Edited by the organizing committee. Zurich 1894. (Reprint = Detlev Auvermann Verlag, Glashütten im Taunus 1975. ISBN = 3-920967-09-7, p. 55ff.)
personal data
SURNAME Seidel, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and journalist, politically active in Switzerland
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg (Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1933
Place of death Zurich