Franz Fischer (politician, 1904)

Franz Fischer (born January 13, 1904 in Berlin ; † February 6, 1986 there ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ), anti-fascist resistance fighter and functionary of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF).

Life

Fischer, the son of a single maid , was sent to an orphanage and then grew up with foster parents. After attending primary school, he learned the trade of welder and pipe fitter . In 1921 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD), in 1923 the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1926 he was a member of the KJVD district management Berlin-Brandenburg and headed the Berlin district of Wedding of the KJVD. From February to April 1929 Fischer attended the Reichsparteischule of the KPD "Rosa Luxemburg" . In November 1929 he was elected to the Berlin city council. In the same year he became a member of the Central Committee of the KJVD. From 1930 Fischer represented the KJVD in the Secretariat of the Communist Youth International in Moscow . After his return to Berlin in July 1932, he worked full-time in the party apparatus. Fischer was expelled from the KPD in September 1933 because of “belonging to the Neumann Group”. However, after six months he was brought back into illegal party work and actively participated in the resistance against National Socialism . He was arrested in May 1934 and was imprisoned in Lichtenburg concentration camp until May 1937 . In December 1937, he first emigrated to Czechoslovakia . There he joined the newly founded FDJ . In May 1939 he had to flee further to Great Britain , where he worked politically in London in the emigration management of the KPD and professionally as a pipe fitter. There he joined the " Free German Cultural Association ".

In August 1946 he returned to Berlin and became the first district chairman of the SED in Berlin-Tempelhof . After completing a course at the party college in 1947/48, he worked as a department head in the SED state leadership in Berlin. Fischer was later a member of the SED district leadership in Berlin.

From 1963 to 1967 he was chairman of the secretariat of the central board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF). From 1964 he was also a member of the Presidium of the Central Board of DSF.

Fischer was buried in the cemetery for victims of fascism and those persecuted by the Nazi regime at the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

Awards

• Labor Banner (1964)
• Karl Marx Order (1973)
• Star of friendship between nations in gold.

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 87.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 180.
• Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan et al. (Ed.): The parties and organizations of the GDR. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0 , p. 931.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 2 [C-G]. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89626-352-8 , p. 167.
• Gottfried Hamacher et al. (Ed.): Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies (series: Manuscripts / Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung , Volume 53) (PDF; 894 kB). 2., corr. Edition. Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X , p. 56.
• Fischer, Franz . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Fischer: My way to Fichtenau . In: Back then in Fichtenau. Memories of the central party school of the KPD . Schöneiche-Fichtenau Memorial and Educational Center 1980, pp. 58–65.