Alfred Fellisch

Alfred Karl Fellisch (born June 1, 1884 in Fraustadt ; † March 4, 1973 in Radebeul ) was a German politician ( SPD , SED ). He was state minister in the Weimar Republic and, for a short time, Prime Minister of Saxony . Also in the post-war period he was the Saxon state minister.

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Fellisch's father was a butcher, he learned the trade of glove maker , settled as such in 1908 in Johanngeorgenstadt and worked in this trade until 1912. In 1902 Fellisch joined the SPD and the free trade unions . In 1912 and 1913 he attended the Reich Party School . Then he was initially a reporter and then until 1921 editor of the Volksstimme in Chemnitz . From 1914 Fellisch was a board member of the Social Democratic constituency commission in Saxony. He was also chairman of the workers' youth in Chemnitz from 1914 to 1921.

Since March 20, 1918, he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament as a representative of the 47th rural constituency . Even after the November Revolution he was a member of the state parliament until 1926 . From 1919 to 1922 Fellisch worked as a secretary (secretary) of the SPD parliamentary group. In 1920 he ran in electoral district 33 in vain for the 1st Reichstag . From 1921 to 1924 he was Minister of Economics and from October 31, 1923 to January 4, 1924 also Prime Minister of the Free State. After that he was governor of the major grove until 1932 .

After the Second World War , Fellisch was initially a government councilor in Stollberg and district administrator in Annaberg . In April 1946, after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD, he became a member of the SED . From May 1946 to March 1948 he was State Secretary and between April 1948 and September 1949 Minister of Economics and Economic Planning and Industry and Transport in Saxony. From 1949 until his retirement in 1952, Fellisch was director of the Saxon State Library .

From 1950 Fellisch lived in the Niederlößnitz district of Radebeul . He was involved at city and district level as well as in the cultural association. From 1954 to 1961 Fellisch was a member of the Dresden-Land district council . From 1961 to 1963 city councilor and chairman of the permanent culture commission of the city of Radebeul , he campaigned for the care and maintenance of the special features of his Lößnitz home until his death . Fellisch was buried in the Radebeul-West cemetery.

literature

• Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
• Mike Schmeitzner : Alfred Fellisch 1884–1973. A political biography (= history and politics in Saxony. Volume 12). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-13599-2 [Diss. phil., Dresden 1999].

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Fellisch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Alfred Fellisch in the Saxon Bibliography
• Alfred Fellisch in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
• Alfred Fellisch's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Mike Schmeitzner: Alfred Fellisch (1884–1973) - a Saxon social democrat in five political systems. Speech on the occasion of the awarding of the Horst Springer Prize in 1999
• Mike Schmeitzner: Fellisch, Paul Alfred . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alfred Fellisch's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
2. ↑ Mike Schmeitzner: Fellisch, Paul Alfred . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .