Background
Hörsing was born in Groß Schilleningken near Memel, East Prussia (today Šilininkai, Lithuania) and was trained to work as a blacksmith in his youth.
Hörsing was born in Groß Schilleningken near Memel, East Prussia (today Šilininkai, Lithuania) and was trained to work as a blacksmith in his youth.
He joined the Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party of Germany) in 1894, became the Executive Secretary of the German Association of Metalworkers in Upper Silesia in 1905 and District Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in Oppeln (1906–1914). He served in the German Army in World War I and became a prisoner of war in Romania. After the war he returned to Silesia and became chairman of the Workers" and Soldiers" council of Upper Silesia in Kattowitz in 1919.
In 1919 and 1920 Hörsing was the Reichsund Staatskommissar for Silesia and Posen and the Oberpräsident of the Province of Saxony in 1920 until 1927.
In 1932, Hörsing founded the Sozial-Republikanische Partei Deutschlands after he was expelled from the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Reichsbanner. In the Reichstag election of November 1932, this new organization received only 8,395 votes.
Following the Nazi take over in 1933, they banned all opposition parties and discontinued Hörsing"s pension benefits. He died impoverished in Berlin in 1937.
He was a member of the Weimar National Assembly (1919), the Reichstag in 1919-1922 and the Prussian Landtag (1924–1933).