Jacques Peirotes

Jacques Laurent Peirotes ( born September 11, 1869 in Strasbourg, † September 4, 1935 in Lichtenberg) was an editor, mayor and member of the German Reichstag.

Life

Peirotes attended elementary school in Strasbourg from 1875 to 1883. He learned from 1883 to 1887, the typesetter craft and toured as a journeyman South and Central Germany, Switzerland, northern Italy, Austria - Hungary, Belgium, northern France. He then worked in Colmar, Brixen, Graz, Vienna, Luxembourg and Paris. In 1895, he returned to Strasbourg and took over on October 1, 1901, the editors of the Free Press, socially democratic body for Alsace- Lorraine.

He was a member of the municipal council of Strasbourg from 1902 to 1908, member of the District of tags for the Lower Alsace since 1903 and a member of the second chamber of the Alsace-Lorraine parliament since 1911.

From 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the electoral district of the Reich country Alsace-Lorraine 3 Kolmar and the SPD. In the Reichstag he took in the debate on the Saverne affair the word.

In World War I he was deported to Hanover. After his return to Strasbourg he was 10 to 29 November 1918 Chairman of the Strasbourg Workers' and Soldiers Council. He asked the authorities to the French invasion to eliminate the councils rule. 1919 and 1925 he was elected mayor of Strasbourg, where he stayed until 1929. During his tenure, 3000 urban dwellings were built. In the rue Jacques Peirotes a monument to him was erected. From 1924 to 1932 he was a member of the French National Assembly.