Eduard Fiedler

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Eduard Fiedler (born October 1, 1890 in Wießen , Bohemia , † June 12, 1963 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician of the NSDAP in the Sudetengau , the DG and BHE and then the FDP in Baden-Württemberg .

Life and work

Fiedler was born in Wiessen in 1890 as the son of the business owner Eduard Adolf Fiedler and his wife Theresia Lenk. He grew up in Klein Otschehau , where his parents moved around 1900. Fiedler received training at the teacher training institute in Komotau and had been a primary school teacher in Komotau since 1909 . There he became a city councilor in 1923, and from 1921 to 1938 he was district and district chairman of the teachers' union in Czechoslovakia . In May 1938, before the Munich Agreement and the invasion of German troops , Fiedler was elected mayor of Komotau and was mayor of the city from autumn 1938 until the end of the Second World War in May 1945.

After the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia , which also forced him and his family to leave the country, Eduard Fiedler settled in Korntal in Württemberg-Baden and took up the teaching profession again. In 1950 he was elected as district chairman, then state chairman of the BHE for the community list of the DG and BHE in the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden . After founding the state of Baden-Württemberg until his death in 1963, he was a member of the state parliament there , and from 1952 to 1960 he was minister for displaced persons, refugees and war victims. His successor in the constituency of Leonberg was Franz Gepperth . After the federal election in 1953 he was briefly (until October 20, 1953) also a member of the German Bundestag . In 1961 the GB / BHE merged with the German Party to form the All-German Party . In 1962 Fiedler switched to the FDP.

Party affiliation

In Czechoslovakia Eduard Fiedler was a member of the Sudeten German Party and, from 1939, the NSDAP. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Fiedler participated in the founding of the GB / BHE as a displaced person and was state chairman in Baden-Württemberg from 1952 to 1956. In November 1962 he joined the FDP.

Honors

Eduard Fiedler was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1960 .

literature

  • Heribert Sturm (Ed.): Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume I, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1979, p. 343.
  • Biographical lexicon of selected people from the former government district of Eger. Tape. 2: N-Z. Edited and edited by Dr. Josef Weinmann, Männedorf / ZH, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , p. 135.
  • Süddeutsche Schulzeitung. Issued July 13, 1963.
  • Leonberger Kreiszeitung. Edition dated June 18, 1963.
  • The Egerländer. 11, 1960, p. 267.

Individual evidence

  1. Fiedler, Eduard . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 300–301 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  2. Erich later : Gez. NSDAP, SA and SS. In: Konkret . April 2004, accessed April 28, 2010 .