Simon Katzenstein

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Simon Katzenstein (before 1920)

Simon Katzenstein (born January 1, 1868 in Giessen , † March 28, 1945 in Solna , Sweden) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Gießen in 1885, Katzenstein, who was originally of Jewish faith but left the Jewish community, studied history and law in Gießen and Leipzig until 1890 . During his studies in 1890 he became a member of the Arminia Gießen fraternity in the General German Burschenbund . From 1890 he was a trainee lawyer in Gießen, but was dismissed for political reasons in 1892 before his state examination. Before that he was editor of the Frankfurter Volksstimme .

Since then he has worked as a political writer and editor in Leipzig and Mainz , and at times also as a workers' secretary in Mannheim . In 1896 he was sentenced to eight years in prison in Saxony for violating the press law. From 1903 he worked in Berlin, where, in addition to his journalistic activities, he was also a teacher at workers' education, trade union and party schools. Since the beginning of the 20th century he has published the journal Der Abstinent Arbeiter , the association gazette of the German Workers' Abstinents Association (DAAB) . Katzenstein held various leading positions in the DAAB. From 1917 he was an economist at the Central Association of German Consumers . In 1933 he went to the Saar area , which was then under the administration of the League of Nations , and after its annexation to Germany in 1935, he fled to Sweden . The National Socialists expatriated him in 1940.

Simon Katzenstein is the brother of the social politician and women's rights activist Henriette Fürth .

Political party

Since 1889 Katzenstein was a member of the SPD. Together with his former college friend Eduard David , he founded the Mitteldeutsche Sonntagszeitung in 1893. Their goal was to win over SPD voters and members from the rural population, especially among small farmers. In 1906 he was a member of the founding college of the SPD Reichsparteischule . After 1933 he became involved in the Sopade , the foreign organization that kept the SPD alive in exile.

MP

Katzenstein was a city councilor in Charlottenburg from 1915 to 1919 . Despite his re-election in 1919, he refused to continue his mandate. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly and was involved in negotiations with representatives of the Center Party that led to the Weimar school compromise .

Publications

  • Critical comments on Bebel's book: " The woman and socialism " . In: The New Time . XV. Born 1886–1897. I. Volume, 1896, No. 10, pp. 293-302. Digitized
  • Freedom and order. An attempt to delimit the rights of the individual and society , in: Sozialistische Monatshefte . 1 = 3 (1897), No. 3, pp. 157-165. Digitized
  • The organizational tasks of the German working class and the workers' secretariats , in: Sozialistische Monatshefte , Jg. 1899, pages 558-566.
  • Home work and cooperative society. Lecture given by Simon Katzenstein on the occasion of the homework exhibition in Berlin 1906 . Cooperative pioneer, Berlin 1906 (= cooperative agitation library 1 )
  • Modern youth movement and alcohol question . German workers abstinent union, Berlin 1907. (= German workers abstinent union . No 14)
  • Anarchism and the labor movement . Verlag der Buchhandlung Vorwärts, Berlin 1908.
  • What are we fighting for? German Workers' Abstinence Association, Berlin (presumably) 1911.
  • Victory of abstinence - the downfall of beverage workers? German Workers' Abstinence Association, Berlin 1928 (together with Kurt Baurichter )
  • The tasks of the community in the fight against alcoholism , JHW ​​Dietz, Berlin 1930.
  • Henriette Fuerth. Attempt an appreciation. Dedicated by her brother on her 70th birthday , Berlin 1931.

literature

  • August Bebel : Critical remarks on Katzenstein's critical remarks on "Women and Socialism" . In: The New Time . XV. Born 1886–1897. I. Volume, 1896, No. 11, pp. 326-336. Digitized
  • Katzenstein, Simon. In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume I .: Deceased Personalities . JHW Dietz Naxchf., Hanover 1960, p. 154.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , p. 69.
  • Martin Schumacher: MdR. The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic during the Nazi era - political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . Düsseldorf, Droste Verlag, 3rd edition 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1

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SURNAME Katzenstein, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SPD politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1945
Place of death Solna , Sweden