Lehmann, Gustav Adolf

Accountant

Born: 02.11.1855 in Görsdorf (Jüterbog-Luckenwalde district)

died: 20.11.1926 in Mannheim

From 1890, Lehmann, an SPD member since 1882, worked as a businessman and journalist for various social democratic publications. From May 1899, he worked as an accountant and canvasser in Mannheim for the SPD organ "Volksstimme". From 1903-09 he sat in the Baden state parliament and was a member of the Mannheim city council from 1905-19.

From 1907-12 he was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Wiesbaden 2 (Wiesbaden-Rheingau-Untertaunus). After three failed attempts, Lehmann won the Reichstag election held on 25.01.1907. Like the SPD, the citizens of Wiesbaden who were entitled to vote were against the continuation and financing of the war against the Herero and Nama in the colony of German South-West Africa. His opponent, Eduard Bartling, who had been a member of the Reichstag for Wiesbaden since 1903 and whose National Liberal Party (NLP) supported the government's policies, was therefore defeated in the 1907 Reichstag election. After the end of the war in 1908, the National Liberal Bartling won back the Wiesbaden 2 constituency in 1912. Lehmann renounced further applications for a seat in the Reichstag, returned to Mannheim and from then on restricted himself to local political activities.