Albrecht Fischer (building officer)

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Albrecht Fischer (born March 27, 1877 in Stuttgart , † January 22, 1965 ) was a German building officer . He was in the shadow cabinet of Beck / Goerdeler , the potential Reich government after a successful assassination attempt on Hitler, as a political representative in military district V (Stuttgart).

Life

Albrecht Fischer was married to Elisabeth Thierdt and had a daughter from the marriage. Fischer completed his chemistry studies at the Technical University of Stuttgart in 1900 and then worked as a construction officer in the Stuttgart trade supervisory office. After the end of the First World War, he was initially managing director of the Association of Württemberg Metal Industrialists, and later managing director of the Association of Württemberg Employers' Associations. In the Weimar Republic he joined the German People's Party (DVP); Fischer was considered a “moderate economic liberal” and “a staunch advocate of democracy”.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists and the DC circuit of Employers Fischer from 1934 economic consultant who was Robert Bosch GmbH . Former Leipzig Mayor Carl Goerdeler , who was also Robert Bosch's advisor from 1937, let Fischer know about the plans for a coup d'état against the National Socialist regime. Fischer made himself available as a representative for military district V.

Shortly after the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 , the Gestapo arrested Fischer and took him to Berlin in August 1944. In interrogations he denied his involvement in the preparations for the assassination and declared his acquaintance with Goerdeler through working together at Bosch. In Gestapo documents, Fischer is described as “stock-liberalist” and “sharply reactionary and completely unaffected by National Socialism”. On January 12, 1945, the People's Court under Roland Freisler tried against Fischer and his co-defendant Reinhold Frank . According to his own perception, Fischer was treated cautiously in the process. The People's Court acquitted Fischer of the charge of high treason and of " favoring the enemy ". SS-Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger , who also came from Württemberg, had “almost certainly” campaigned for Fischer. Berger took action at the request of the Bosch “operations manager”, Hans Walz ; possibly Berger approached Himmler or Freisler. Berger's own statement after the end of the war, that he contacted Hitler directly, cannot be proven and is considered unlikely.

Fischer remained in custody after his acquittal and was initially held in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison , and from February 20, 1945 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . There he was liberated by Soviet troops in April 1945. After the end of the war, Fischer was employed by the French occupation authorities in Stuttgart in various socio-political functions; He was also the administrator of Hans Walz at Robert Bosch GmbH while he was in prison. In April 1952, Fischer received the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

literature

  • Winfried Meyer: Albrecht Fischer (1877-1965) - Stuttgart representative of the conspirators from July 20 . In: Angela Borgstedt et al. (Ed.): Courage proven. Resistance biographies from the south-west (= writings on political regional studies of Baden-Württemberg , published by the State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg, vol. 46), Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 9783945414378 , pp. 63–72.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Kopp: Resistance and Renewal. Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1966, p. 121.
  2. ↑ Joachim Scholtyseck : Robert Bosch and the liberal resistance against Hitler 1933 to 1945. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45525-5 , p. 200.
  3. ↑ Quoted in Scholtyseck, Bosch , p. 515.
  4. ↑ Referring to Fischer's memories: Joachim Scholtyseck: Der "Schwabenherzog" Gottlob Berger, SS-Obergruppenführer. In: Michael Kißener , Joachim Scholtyseck: The leaders of the province: Nazi biographies from Baden and Württemberg. (= Karlsruhe contributions to the history of National Socialism. Volume 2) Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 1997, ISBN 3-87940-566-2 , pp. 77–110, here p. 97.
  5. ↑ This evaluation in Scholtyseck, Schwabenherzog , p. 101.
  6. ↑ Detailed description of the reasons in Scholtyseck, Schwabenherzog , p. 99f.

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personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building councilor
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1965