Fritz Drescher

Fritz Drescher (born March 30, 1904 in Dresden , † September 6, 1982 in Bad Münder ) was a German politician ( SPD / SED ).

Life

Drescher joined the SPD in 1921. During the National Socialist era , he was sentenced to seven months in prison (1933) and later to seven years in prison (1936). From 1945 to 1946 he was 2nd Vice President of the Merseburg District of the Province of Saxony and then worked in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Saxony-Anhalt. After he was accused of having contacts with the SPD's Eastern Office, he was arrested by the NKVD in 1948 and sentenced to 25 years of forced labor for “promoting a social democratic underground movement” by a Soviet military court in 1949. After being deported to Vorkuta , he received an amnesty after Konrad Adenauer's visit to Moscow in 1955 and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. Here he then worked for the DGB in Düsseldorf.

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 .
• Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas: SBZ manual . Munich 1990, pp. 154, 157, 164
• Beatrix Bouvier :  Drescher, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Compensation file in the Lower Saxony State Archives Hanover (Nds. 110 W Acc. 14/99 No. 119514 (Fritz Drescher))

Web links

• For freedom and democracy (PDF; 275 kB; accessed on June 1, 2019) Web server of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung