Edmund Fischer

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Edmund Fischer (bottom center) and the other Saxon members of the Reichstag, 1903
Edmund Fischer as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Georg Edmund Fischer (born January 9, 1864 in Darmstadt , † June 11, 1925 in Dresden ) was a wood sculptor, editor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Fischer attended the Catholic elementary school from 1870 to 1873 and the middle school in Darmstadt until 1878. Then he learned to work as a wood sculptor in Hornberg until 1881 . He worked as a wood sculptor during his years of traveling in Germany, France and Holland and during this time also joined the trade union and the SPD. In 1890 he was a co-founder of the SPD in Frankfurt am Main . From 1892 to 1893 he was editor of the Volksstimme in Frankfurt a. M. and from 1893 to 1898 editor of the Sächsische Arbeiterzeitung in Dresden. Between 1898 and 1908 he was the editor of Der poor Teufel von der Oberlausitz and from 1905 to 1912 a member of the local council in Briesnitz. From 1914 to 1922 he was a permanent employee of the Socialist Monthly Bulletin and a delegate of the SPD party congresses from 1895 to 1916.

From 1898 to 1907 and from 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency Kingdom of Saxony 1 Zittau and the SPD . In 1919 he was appointed to the Saxon Ministry of the Interior to prepare a comprehensive reform of the community. In 1922 he became director of the state office for community economy in Saxony and in 1924 city councilor in Dresden. He committed suicide because of a serious illness .

literature

  • Joachim Brenner: “Against pure teaching” - Edmund Fischer's publications as an expression of anti-feminism in early social democracy . In: Work - Movement - History. Journal for historical studies, vol. 2, 2019, pp. 81–98.

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personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Georg Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood sculptor, editor and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1925
Place of death Dresden