Martin Segitz was born in Fürth in 1853, in what was then the independent Kingdom of Bavaria.

After originally working in the tin industry, in 1890 he became an editor for the Fränkische Tagespost newspaper in Nuremberg.

Segitz also had a large part in the formation of the first metal worker union in Germany.

[1] After World War I, he became a state commissioner for the demobilizing of the home coming troops of the Bavarian army.

Due to the political turmoil at this stage, his government, and initially the following one under Johannes Hoffmann too, had little control and was not universally recognized in Bavaria.