1. Early involved in trade unionism and editorship, Winnig held elected and public offices from 1913 to 1921 as a Social Democratic Party member.
15 Facts About August Winnig
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August Winnig was nominated Oberprasident of East Prussia in 1919, and pressured the Weimar Republic to create an autonomous State in the eastern Baltic Sea region.
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August Winnig died in Bad Nauheim on 3 November 1956, at the age of 78.
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August Winnig was born on 31 March 1878 in Blankenburg, the youngest son in a large and poor family.
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August Winnig joined the Social Democratic Party at eighteen years old in 1896 and was a member of the Infanterie-Regiment Nr.
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From 1917 to 1918, August Winnig was appointed Reichskommissar for East and West Prussia and Generalbevollmachtigter to the Baltic Provinces.
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In January 1919, after being appointed Oberprasident of East Prussia by the Weimar Republic, August Winnig devised a plan for the creation of an autonomous State in the eastern Baltic Sea region that would have included Livonia, Kurland, Lithuania and East and West Prussia, with the false assumption that the victorious powers of WWI would concentrate their demands on Germany itself and let alone a separatist eastern State.
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On 4 March 1920, August Winnig published a memorandum on the East Prussian question.
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August Winnig raised an abundant catalogue of demands at the East Prussia Conference on 9 March 1920, in order to obtain concessions from the Prussian and German governments for his autonomy demands.
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The failure of his separatist project led August Winnig to participate in the failed Kapp putsch of 13 March 1920 against the Weimar Republic.
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August Winnig was, along with Ernst Niekisch, co-editor of Widerstand, a magazine launched in 1926 to advocate National Bolshevism.
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In 1927, August Winnig joined instead the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany.
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August Winnig was an ASP candidate for the Reichstag during the 1928 German federal election.
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August Winnig then abandoned its revolutionary programme, joining the Conservative People's Party in 1930.
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August Winnig died in Bad Nauheim on 3 November 1956 at the age of 78.