William Bromme

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Senator William Bromme

Moritz William Theodor Bromme (born July 15, 1873 in Leipzig , † February 19, 1926 in Lübeck ) was Senator of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

Life

origin

William Bromme was born on July 15, 1873, the son of a railroad worker. As a social democratic functionary, he had given up his service as a result of the Socialist Act and from then on worked as a slipper maker.

career

In Schmölln in Saxony-Altenburg , where his father was transferred in 1878, he attended elementary and middle school from 1879 to 1887. His mother wanted him to become a teacher according to his talents and inclinations . The economic circumstances of his parents neither allowed him to get an apprenticeship. His interest in questions of popular education , popular education and a pronounced socio-educational talent, however, remained constant.

Like his father, Bromme worked as a slipper maker in button, shoe, wood and machine factories. As such, he joined the woodworkers' association on May 8, 1898 .

Bromme had been unionized since 1890 and joined the Dortmund Social Democratic Party on August 1, 1891 . In 1896 he was elected as their functionary there .

Due to a lung disease, Bromme was forced to change jobs and from then on traveled as a traveler . In 1905 he founded a productive cooperative for workers' footwear in Ronneburg and took over its management.

At the end of 1906, Bromme was called to the first course of the Social Democratic Reichsparteischule in Berlin . Among his teachers there were Rudolf Hilferding , Franz Mehring , Simon Katzenstein , Heinrich Schulz and Hugo Heinemann . He then worked in the editorial offices of the Leipziger and Altenburger Volkszeitung , before becoming editor of the Dortmunder Arbeiter-Zeitung in 1908 . He was also active in the consumer association movement on the side.

On September 1, 1909, the Lübeck party organization elected Bromme as its party secretary for Lübeck. As such, he was a member of the District Board of the Party for Mecklenburg -Lübeck and deputy in the party committee . In the following ten years belonged to the boards of the trade union cartel and the woodworkers' association and was temporarily on the supervisory board of the consumer association. During the First World War he was nurse at the Red Cross assumed Lübeck medical column in Barack hospital of IX. Army Corps , board member of the Society for Social Reforms , member of the “ Unification and Welfare Office of the Committee for Large Families” and the Arbitration Committee . He was a member of the executive committee of the workers' council and its working group .

After the constitutional amendment by the council and citizens' resolutions on December 11, 1918, on February 9, 1919, for the first time since 1848, all members of the citizenship and Bromme were elected together. Here he was elected to the citizens' committee. He was elected to the Senate on September 15, 1919 for the resigned Senator Cay Diedrich Lienau . Here he was the chairman of the labor authority, thus the predestined target of the communists , and the cemetery authority. Due to his poor health, he entered the on April 21, 1925 retirement .

Early on he was chairman of the " Free Youth Movement ". By the Council meeting on January 1, 1921 he was the chair of the youth office and later State Youth Welfare Office transmitted. He was responsible for the reorganization of the Lübeck youth welfare based on the Reich Youth Welfare Act . The establishment of the Wakenitzhof and Ruhleben educational homes and the creation of the youth home in the inner city go back to him.

In the week of his death, he took part in the board meeting of the forest school commission.

His funeral took place on February 24, 1926 in the union building before the coffin was transferred to the Vorwerker cemetery .

In 1905 he became widely known through the publication of “The Life of a Modern Factory Worker” in the Eugen Diederichs publishing house in Jena , and he continued to work as a writer. So he wrote not only a comedy , but also numerous features and treatises , which were printed in the social-democratic papers of Germany.

family

He was married to Emma and had several children.

One of these was the politician Paul Bromme , who later became famous in Lübeck .

Fonts

  • Life story of a modern factory worker. Diederichs, Jena 1905. ( Digitized at: zeno.org . )

literature

  • Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918–2007. (= Publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume 46 of series B). published by the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 50 ff.
  • Senator William Bromme †. In: Lübeckische Blätter . Volume 58, No. 11, February 28, 1926, pp. 133-134.
  • Senator William Bromme. In: Father-city sheets . Year 1925/26, No. 17, February 28, 1926, p. 75.
  • William Bromme †. In: Lübecker Volksbote . Volume 33, No. 43, June 20, 1926.
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.1040
  • Senator William Bromme. In: Father-city sheets. Year 1924/25, No. 17, May 10, 1925, p. 75.
  • Senator William Bromme. In: Father-city sheets. Year 1918/19, No. 26, September 28, 1919, p. 101.
  • The change in the Lübeck Senate. In: From Lübeck's towers . Volume 32, No. 20, October 4, 1919, p. 80.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are also sources that speak of 1903 instead of 1905.
  2. ^ Lübeck State Constitution of May 23, 1920
  3. ↑ William Brommes relationships with the boys of the Wakenitzhof as well as with the other youth facilities were preserved even after his health-related retirement from public office.
personal data
SURNAME Bromme, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bromme, Moritz William Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senator of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1926
Place of death Lübeck