Wilhelm Brecour

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Wilhelm Carl Fritz Brecour (born December 9, 1866 in Pritzwalk , † January 11, 1940 in Kiel ) was a German trade unionist and politician. He was editor-in-chief of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung and a social democratic politician. He was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1919 to 1932 .

family

Brecour was the oldest child of the couple Wilhelm August Brecour (1841–1908) and Maria Auguste Caroline Grube from Pritzwalk. He had nine siblings, six sisters and three brothers. One of his brothers, Albert Brecour (1883–1931), and his wife Minna Giebel (1883–1966) became parents of Marianne Brecour (1908–1999), the wife of Johann Baptist Gradl (1904–1988). Brecour married Anna Dorothea Langmaack (1870–1961) on February 26, 1890 and had a total of five children with her: Anna, Wilhelm (1893–1927), Hans, Paula (born 1897) and Richard.

Life

Brecour trained as a carpenter and became involved in the woodworkers' union in later years.

In 1888 Brecour moved to Kiel, initially working in several small businesses and then as a carpenter at the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel .

From April 1, 1893, Brecour was an unskilled worker for the Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung . In the same year he became a travel agent and from 1904 to 1931 an editor in various departments. On May 2, 1923, Brecour left the newspaper until April 1924 to work in the state labor office.

In 1931 Brecour retired from professional life because of a serious eye condition and was almost deaf. A short time later, he had an accident that resulted in the rest of his life in his apartment at Kleiststrasse 21 in Kiel. His daughter Paula cared for Brecour in the last years of his life and his wife until her death in 1961.

politics

From 1894 to 1899 Brecour was chairman of the Kiel SPD. In the early 1920s, Brecour was a member of the SPD's district executive. In 1925 and 1929 he gave the main speeches at the district party conferences before the local elections.

Brecour was appointed city councilor for Kiel in 1910 and was re-elected as such in 1916; on May 24, 1918, he was honorary city councilor, re-elected in this office on October 29, 1919 and October 19, 1924, until he resigned in July 1929. When the Lord Mayor Dr. Paul Fuß wanted to introduce three-class suffrage in Kiel, Brecour prevented this.

From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the constituent Prussian state assembly and in the following three legislative periods from 1921 to 1932 a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Prussia .

In 1923/1924 Brecour was a member of the provincial administration for a short time.

Works

Wilhelm Brecour: The Social Democratic Party in Kiel. In: On the history of the Kiel labor movement. (= Special publications of the Society for Kiel City History Volume 15), Kiel 1983.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 240 names the date of death “15.10.1938”.
  2. ↑ a b c Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung from March 22, 1960
  3. ↑ a b Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung dated December 9, 1966
  4. ↑ a b Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung of May 2, 1923
  5. ^ Biography of Wilhelm Brecour . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
personal data
SURNAME Brecour, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brecour, Wilhelm Carl Fritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Pritzwalk
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1940
Place of death Kiel