Emil Friedrich

Emil Friedrich (born March 13, 1885 in Großberndten ; † 1965 ) was a German trade union official , fighter against the Kapp Putsch and local politician ( SPD / SED ).

Life

Friedrich grew up in a large family and was raised by his mother alone. At the age of nine he had to work in agriculture . After attending primary school, he learned to be a carpenter. In 1902 he became a member of the trade union and the SPD. In the carpenter's association he exercised the function of cashier . In 1908 he took up a job in Weimar and was a strike leader in the great construction workers' strike in 1910. In 1912 he was chairman of the agitation commission of the SPD regional association of Saxony-Weimar . From 1914 to 1924 he was the chairman of the local ADGB cartel. In 1915 he was drafted into the army and stationed in Austria . After the end of the First World War he chaired the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Weimar , and in 1920 he was a member of the Action Committee against the Kapp Putsch in Weimar, which killed nine people when it was suppressed. In the second half of the 1920s he was an SPD city ​​councilor and at the same time a board member of the Weimar consumer association . Two years later, on May 1, 1922, the “Memorial for the March Fallen” designed by Walter Gropius was inaugurated at the Weimar cemetery . Over 4000 participants took part in the demonstration from the Volkshaus to the cemetery. The rally that followed was one of the largest that Weimar had seen until then. Emil Friedrich gave the memorial address.

After the liberation from National Socialism , Friedrich belonged to the anti-Nazi committee and organized the denazification of the Weimar city administration. Then he became the head of the building department. He criticized the founding of the Federation of Democratic Socialists by Hermann Brill as being primarily useful for his career. In 1946 he became a member of the SED through the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD . When he refused to pay the Sachsen-Weimar family compensation for broken building materials in 1948 , and Lord Mayor Hempel wanted to fire him because of this, the mayor resigned .

literature

• Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 547

Individual evidence

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