Erich Friedrich

Erich Friedrich

Erich Friedrich (born May 29, 1901 in Sommerfeld , Brandenburg province , † January 14, 1971 in Bad Oldesloe ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Friedrich came from a poor background and after attending the elementary school in Tschernow near Küstrin learned the profession of blacksmith , in which he worked until he worked full-time for the NSDAP. In early 1919 he took part in the Eastern Border Guard in Silesia and joined the Navy in 1920, from which he was released in 1922. In 1919 he also joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund .

After being involved in various other ethnic groups, Friedrich joined the NSDAP in Kiel in 1925 and quickly became district manager. In 1929 he became a city councilor in Kiel. At the beginning of 1932 he was appointed district leader of the NSDAP in the Bordesholm district, but on October 1, 1932, he switched to Heinrich Backhaus in the Stormarn district , where he remained district leader until the end of the war. In March 1933 he became a member of the provincial and district council and a member of the district committee. From the “election” in November 1933 , he was a member of the Reichstag , which he remained until 1945.

In Stormarn, Friedrich got involved in constant conflicts with District Administrator Constantin Bock von Wülfingen , whom he always accused of placing the state (here the district) above the party. He was unable to achieve his goal of making Bad Oldesloe a district town instead of Wandsbek . Friedrich was considered the key figure in the Nazi circle in the persecution of political opponents of the regime. He was interned at the end of the war and sentenced to three and a half years in prison in 1948. In the denazification process in 1951, he was classified as "incriminated".

After his release from prison in 1951, he was again active in the profession he had learned.

literature

• Sebastian Lehmann: Friedrich, Erich . In: Stormarn Lexicon . Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2003, page 113, ISBN 3-529-07150-1 .

Web links

• Erich Friedrich in the database of members of the Reichstag