Theodor Wolff (politician, 1875)

Theodor Wolff (born January 31, 1875 in Forst (Lausitz) , Brandenburg , † December 1923 in Tilsit , East Prussia ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

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Theodor Wolff was born the son of a cloth maker. From 1881 to 1889 he attended elementary school in his home town of Forst. Wolff then learned the craft of a decorative painter. Around 1895 Wolff joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the trade union.

After Wolff had worked as a painter's assistant in various places in Germany and Switzerland from 1899 to 1905, he pursued his profession as a resident painter in Breslau until 1913 . In 1909 he became chairman of the local painters' association. From 1909 to 1910 he attended the SPD party school in Berlin. After serving as the district leader of the SPD in Breslau from 1912 to 1913, Wolff took over the office of party secretary of the SPD in Tilsit at Easter 1913.

From 1914 to 1918 Wolff took part in the First World War. After returning from the war, he became chairman of the Tilsit workers' council in December 1918 . For constituency 1 (East Prussia) Wolff sat from January 1919 to June 1920 as a member of the SPD in the Weimar National Assembly and then in the first regular Reichstag of the Weimar Republic until his death in 1923 . From 1919 to 1922 he was also a city ​​councilor in Tilsit.

literature

• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 809.
• Hermann Hillger : Hillger's Handbook of the German Constituent Assembly 1919 , Berlin / Leipzig 1919, p. 51.

Web links

• Theodor Wolff in the database of members of the Reichstag