SPD Alsace-Lorraine

The SPD Alsace-Lorraine was the regional organization of the SPD in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine .

founding

After the socialist laws were repealed, social democratic organizations also emerged in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine. In Alsace-Lorraine, which is predominantly Catholic, the starting conditions for the Social Democrats were relatively poor. The main focus of social democracy in the Reichsland was the textile workers of Upper Alsace .

Together with Charles Hickel, Jean Martin was founding chairman of the workers' electoral union for Mulhouse and the surrounding area, which was founded by 21 Social Democrats on December 10, 1889 and approved by the district president on April 12, 1890.

In Colmar , after years of efforts, a workers' electoral association was approved on June 25, 1900. This approval was possible after the district director Friedrich Curtius had come to the conviction that no social democratic tendencies could be recognized in this association. However, many Social Democrats subsequently joined and formed a majority in the club. After the liberalization of association law , a social democratic electoral association was founded on September 27, 1907 and the members moved there.

In Strasbourg , too , social democratic associations were repeatedly founded in 1891, 1892, 1895 and 1900 and were not approved until they were officially approved. In Metz , the President of the Lorraine District prohibited the formation of associations in 1890, 1891, 1893 and again in 1902.

A national organization came into being with the first national conference in September 1892. The Reich SPD supported the establishment of the SPD in Alsace-Lorraine with not insignificant amounts. In 1912 the SPD had 6,496 members in the Reichsland. The vast majority of these came from Strasbourg and Mulhouse.

Electoral successes

Reichstag elections

A total of 8 Social Democrats were elected to the Reichstag in the Reichsland:

image	Surname	From	To	Constituency	Reichstag election
	August Bebel	6/1893	6/1898	Alsace-Lorraine	9
	Bernhard Böhle	1/1907	11/1918	Alsace-Lorraine 7	12-13
0	Fernand Bueb	6/1893	0/1900	Alsace-Lorraine 2	9-10
	Leopold Emmel	1/1907	11/1918	Alsace-Lorraine 2	12-13
	Richard Fuchs	1/1912	11/1918	Alsace-Lorraine 9	13
0	Charles Hickel	2/1890	6/1893	Alsace-Lorraine 2	8th
	Jacques Peirotes	1/1912	11/1918	Alsace-Lorraine 3	13
	Georges Weill	1/1912	1/1915	Alsace-Lorraine 14	13

State Committee

The elections to the regional committee of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine from 1874 to 1911 were made indirectly through the district and district assemblies . Although some leading Social Democrats were represented in the district or district meetings, they were never elected to the state committee.

State election 1911

In the first and only election to the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , the SPD achieved the second highest number of votes after the center with 23.8% and 11 seats .

image	Surname	district	Constituency	Constituency number	annotation
	Charles Hindelang	Upper Alsace	Colmar-City constituency	3
	Leopold Emmel	Upper Alsace	Mulhouse I constituency	8th
	Joseph Schilling	Upper Alsace	Mulhouse II constituency	9
	Jean Martin	Upper Alsace	Mulhouse-Land constituency	11
	Laurent Meyer	Upper Alsace	Markirch-Schnierlach constituency	15th
	Eugene Imbs	Lower Alsace	Strasbourg III constituency	20th
	Georg Wolfer	Lower Alsace	Strasbourg IV constituency	21st	Secretary
	Bernhard Böhle	Lower Alsace	Strasbourg constituency V	22nd
	Jacques Peirotes	Lower Alsace	Strasbourg VI constituency	23
	Richard Fuchs	Lower Alsace	Schiltigheim constituency	24
	Michel Heysch	Lower Alsace	Schirmeck-Saales-Rosheim constituency	32

literature

• Hermann Hiery : Reichstag elections in the Reichsland. A contribution to the regional history of Alsace-Lorraine and the electoral history of the German Empire 1871–1918 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. 80). Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-5132-7 , pp. 85-92, (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 1984).
• Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine. Biographical-statistical manual. 1, 1911/1916 (1912), ZDB -ID 347180-9 , pages with the SPD MPs.