Theodor Hartwig (politician)
Karl Theodor Hartwig (born April 4, 1878 in Xions ; † August 24, 1948 in Magdeburg ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).
Life
After attending elementary school, Hartwig completed an apprenticeship as a butcher, which he completed with a journeyman's examination. He then worked as a butcher and was employed as a factory worker from 1901 to 1907. Through his job he came to the factory workers' association (FAV), for which he worked on a voluntary basis from 1903 to 1907, first as a board member of the branch in Harburg , then as chairman of the branches in Winsen (Luhe) , Buchholz and Buxtehude . From November 1907 to December 1912 he was a full-time trade unionist and was employed as a manager and agitation manager of the FAV for East Prussia in Königsberg . He joined the SPD in 1903, was a city councilor in Königsberg from 1910 to 1912 and party secretary for the SPD district of Posen , based in Bromberg, from 1913 to 1918 . In Bromberg he was also a member of the board of the local consumer association. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier .
Hartwig worked from 1918 to 1933 as party secretary for the SPD district of Pomerania , based in Stettin . He was also a member of the central party committee of the Social Democrats from 1920. He also took on various honorary positions in the labor movement. He was a member of the Prussian state assembly from 1919 to 1921 and was then elected to the Prussian state parliament, of which he was a member until 1933. He represented constituency 6 (Pomerania) in parliament and was a board member of the SPD parliamentary group. In addition, he acted from 1924 to 1933 as district chairman of the Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold for Pomerania.
After the National Socialists came to power and the SPD was banned, Hartwig was briefly taken into “ protective custody ”. In June 1933 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and from there to Sweden in May 1938 . During his emigration he kept in touch with social democrats, trade unionists and communists. In 1947 he returned to Germany and settled in Magdeburg. There he became a member of the SED .
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928. S, 591.
- Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928, p. 528.
Web links
- Biography of Theodor Hartwig . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
- Biography of Theodor Hartwig . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)
- Theodor Hartwig in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Magdeburg-Altstadt, No. 1271/1948
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartwig, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Xions |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1948 |
| Place of death | Magdeburg |