Martin Segitz

Segitz Martin ( born July 26, 1853 in Fuerth, † July 31, 1927 ) was a German trade union leader and politician (SPD).

Life

Segitz was a trained metal casters. As a member of the SPD from 1898 he sat in the Bavarian Parliament, and from 1898 to 1903 and from 1912 to 1924 in the German Reichstag.

After the assassination of the first Prime Minister of Bavaria, Kurt Eisner, Segitz was proclaimed by the Congress of Soviets on March 1 as his successor, the Landtag him but did not recognize and elected on March 17, Johannes Hoffmann ( also SPD) as advocates of a pluralist parliamentary democracy as Prime Minister of Bavaria. The Soviet Republic was on April 7, 1919, proclaimed in Munich.

1931 was a street by the unions newly built residential Carl Legien (Berlin- Prenzlauer Berg) his name, but was renamed after the "seizure of power " by the Nazis in 1933. In 1947, the Segitzdamm was named after him in the " union district " of Berlin -Kreuzberg.