Georg von Vollmar
Georg von Vollmar, actually Georg von Vollmar on Veldheim, ( born March 7, 1850 in Munich, † June 30, 1922 in Urfeld am Walchensee, Soiensaß House, Upper Bavaria ) was a German politician and first chairman of the Bavarian SPD.
Life
Vollmar came from an old aristocratic family of civil servants and initially grew in Mies Bach, his mother's home, where he was also baptized. He received his education at the Gymnasium of the Benedictine of St. Stephen in Augsburg, where he received a strict Catholic upbringing. Vollmar initially proposed in 1865 a military career, took his leave in 1867 and served in 1868 as a legionnaire in the army of the Papal States. In 1869, he was a telegrapher for the railroad. Him an officer's position in the Bavarian army was denied for the German -French war, so that he entered the service of the railway field. In 1871, he returned as an invalid and was dismissed from the civil service.
He worked in the years of recovery with politics, philosophy and literature. Since 1874 he lived in Plauen and known since 1875, to socialism. In 1877 he became editor of the Dresden Volksboten. Convicted of lese majeste to ten months in prison, he was serving this sentence in the detention center Zwickau.
1879 to 1880 he was editor of the central organ, the Social Democrat, which appeared in the Zurich exile during the period of socialist law. In Zurich Vollmar tried to set up a center of social democracy. In 1881 he had to give up but because of its radical- revolutionary ideas of this activity. Several times he was arrested and deported. He lived in Berlin, Brussels, Liege, Paris and Zurich.
In 1881 he moved into the Reichstag for the Saxon constituency Mittweida. Vollmar was from 1881 to 1887 and from 1890 to 1918 member of the Reichstag, in 1884 for the constituency of Munich II He was also from 1883 to 1889 Member of the Saxon parliament and from 1893 to 1918 Member of the Bavarian Landtag.
Vollmar turned away since the mid-80s by the revolutionary utopianism and was for the rest of his political activity, a representative of the reformist wing of the party. In the Munich Local " Eldorado", he spoke out on 1 and 6 July 1891 in two speeches for negotiations in order to bring about on the basis of the given state and social order improvements of economic and social nature. Vollmar wanted to realize his ideas by means of cooperation with bourgeois parties. In the revisionist argument, he stood as a representative of revisionism theory in opposition to August Bebel and others.
He was instrumental in the building of a Bavarian Association of the SPD, the first state convention was held in Regensburg on June 26, 1892. There Vollmar and G. Lowenstein reimbursed a report on the importance and the activity of the Bavarian State Parliament, which were published together with the state assembly election manifesto for the elections in 1893 in a treatise The Social democracy and elections to the Bavarian Landtag (Nuremberg, 1892). In this manifesto was charged, inter alia, the following requirement: "Care of science and art, unrestricted freedom of their teaching and practice. Creation of a school law on the following bases: . Gratuitousness of the school curriculum and teaching materials, to cover the expenses by the state, improve public school, in particular by extending school hours and replacement of the useless holiday school through an effective training lessons Of needy school children at public expense. Relief of the teachers from the church service and ENHANCE their salaries; secular school inspection. " from 1894 to 1918 he was state chairman of the Bavarian SPD. In 1903 he declared himself willing to participate in an imperial government.
Vollmar, who was married in second marriage with the Swedish industrialist Julia Kjellberg since 1885, usually lived at his country estate in Soiensaß Urfeld am Walchensee. The consequences of two accidents in 1903 and 1910 tied him for years to wheelchair and crutches. In 1918, he put down his mandates for health reasons.
His body was interred in the Forest Cemetery in Munich / semi-retirement in grave No. 90 - W-11.
According to von Vollmar are the foundation of the Bavarian SPD for Civic Education, the Georg -von- Vollmar -Akademie in Aspen flintlock in Kochel am See, as well as the highest award of the Bavarian SPD, the Georg von Vollmar Medal, named.
Work
- Speeches and writings on reform policy ( = International Library. Vol. 92). Selected and introduced by Willy Albrecht. JHW Dietz, Berlin and others, 1977, ISBN 3-8012-1092-8.
Literature on Vollmar
- Paul Kampffmeyer: Georg von Vollmar. G. Birk & Co., Munich 1930.
- Georg Lohmeier, "Who is servant to remain servant " The " Royal Bavarian Social Democrats " Erhard Auer, Ignaz Auer and Georg von Vollmar. Langen Müller, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7844-2794-4.
- Reinhard Jansen: Georg von Vollmar. A political biography ( = Contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol.13, ISSN 0522-6643 ). Droste, Dusseldorf 1958.
Radio
- Zdenek Zofka, Karin summer barbecue Berger, Vollmar and comrades. For the early history of the SPD in Bavaria. Radio broadcast of March 9, 1986, Bayerischer Rundfunk