Stephan Heinzel

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Stephan Heinzel (born September 3, 1841 in the Czech Republic ; † November 23, 1899 in Kiel ) was a German politician .

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Stephan Heinzel had lived in Kiel since 1869 as an agitator for Ferdinand Lassalle's General German Workers' Association (ADAV). After the merger of ADAV and the Social Democratic Workers 'Party of Germany (SDAP) in 1875 to form the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP), Heinzel was nominated several times between 1878 and 1887 as its candidate for the Reichstag, but despite good successes due to the applicable electoral law and later also the Repressions under Bismarck's " Socialist Law " never received a majority of votes.

As the leading Social Democrat in Kiel, Heinzel was under constant (secret) police surveillance. He was often reported, arrested, or had to endure house searches. In most cases, however, no evidence of "illegal" work could be found. However, his arrest on his return from the International Congress of Socialists in Copenhagen in March / April 1883 led to a trial. He was charged - along with August Bebel and seven other party representatives - in 1885 and sentenced to six months in prison. Since the accused could not be proven to belong to a forbidden secret society, it was concluded from the distribution of socialist pamphlets that such a secret society existed, which then made a conviction possible. "This created new law."

Stephan Heinzel's first candidacy for the city council in 1877 was unsuccessful. Further candidacies in the municipal area were impossible until 1890 because of the "Socialist Law". It was not until November 1890 that he, who had firmly campaigned for the participation of the Social Democrats in local elections, was surprisingly elected to the city council together with the bricklayer Friedrich Brodthuhn .

Heinzel remained a city councilor for one legislative period from 1890 to 1897. When he fell ill and died of cancer in the late 1899s, the police forbade the thousands of people who gave him his final conduct to reveal the flags. The choral society was not allowed to sing and no memorial word was spoken at the grave.

Street sign "Stephan-Heinzel-Straße" with an explanation

Honors

  • In 1991 a street in Kiel was named after Stephan Heinzel.
  • A memorial plaque has been attached to the house at Knooper Weg 86, where Heinzel and his family lived for a long time.

literature

  • Biographical Lexicon of Socialism Volume 1: Deceased Personalities Verlag JHWDietz Nachf. GmbH Hannover 1960 p. 124
  • Stephan Heinzel and the Kiel Social Democracy / Karl Rudolf Fischer 1987 45 pp.
  • "We follow the path, the bold one ...". Stephan Heinzel and the rise of the Kiel SPD (History of the Kiel Social Democracy Volume I, 1863–1900), Schleswig-Holst. Geschichtsverlag, Malente, 2010, ISBN 3-933862-42-6

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical Lexicon of Socialism Volume 1: Deceased Personalities Verlag JHWDietz Nachf. GmbH Hanover p. 124
personal data
SURNAME Heinzel, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Czechs
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1899
Place of death Kiel