Wilhelm Buck

Wilhelm Buck

Johann Wilhelm Buck (born November 12, 1869 in Bautzen , † December 2, 1945 in Radebeul ) was a German politician , minister of culture and prime minister of the Free State of Saxony and a member of the Reichsrat .

Live and act

Buck was born in 1869 to Sorbian- Protestant parents in the Seidau at the gates of Bautzen. The family moved to Dresden before his first year of school. After elementary school and apprenticeship there, Buck was a plasterer assistant until 1905 . At an unknown point in time, he joined the SPD and the free trade unions . From 1892 to 1904 he was shop steward for the plasterers and from 1900 to 1905 he was an assessor at the arbitration tribunal for workers' insurance. In 1905 he was first trade union secretary and then from 1907 workers secretary in Dresden , a position Buck held until 1918.

For the SPD, he sat in the Dresden city council from 1908 to 1917 and on the city council in 1917/1918. After an unsuccessful candidacy in the Reichstag election of 1912, Buck moved into parliament in a by-election in 1913 for the 4th Saxon constituency ("Dresden on the right of the Elbe"), to which he belonged until 1924. Buck was also a member of the German constituent assembly and the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic . During the November Revolution until October 1919, Buck was first representative of the people and then minister of culture .

From May 5, 1920 to March 21, 1923, he was Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony in front of three governments. He was also a member of the Reichsrat . Then was Buck to 1933 Kreishauptmann in Dresden. In addition, he was a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Reichsbahngesellschaft from 1924 to 1929 .

In May 1926 Buck resigned from the SPD and became a co-founder of the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany (ASPD) and chairman of the party. Buck sat for this party from 1929 to 1930 in the Saxon state parliament .

Honors

According to him, which is Wilhelm-Buck-Straße on Carolaplatz in the government district in the interior Neustadt named Dresden.

Works

• What has been achieved in the German state? Printed lecture text. Dresden 1919.

literature

• Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
• Frank Andert (editor): Stadtlexikon Radebeul. Historical manual for the Loessnitz . 2nd Edition. City administration, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spomnjeće. In: Serbske Nowiny , November 19, 2009, p. 2.

Web links

• Wilhelm Buck in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
• Wilhelm Buck in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Wilhelm Buck . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Biography of Johann Wilhelm Buck . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Biography of Wilhelm Buck . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)