Franz Petrich

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Franz Petrich

Franz Petrich (born September 18, 1889 in Berkenbrügge , Arnswalde district ; † January 31, 1945 in the Sonnenburg prison ) was a German trade unionist and social democratic politician.

Life

Petrich came from a family of farm workers. After various unskilled jobs, he did an apprenticeship as a galvanizer . In 1910 he joined the SPD and the German Metalworkers Association . He continued his education at a workers' training school and the Humboldt Academy . Between 1912 and 1915 he worked for various party and trade union newspapers. During the November Revolution he was the rapporteur for the Executive Council of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Councils . Since 1919 Petrich has been working as an editor for the "Ostthüringische Tribüne" in Gera . There he was also the SPD chairman, chairman of the parents' council and a member of the party's district education committee. He was also a lecturer at the Gera folk high school and correspondent for the Weltbühne . He also worked for the works council newspaper of the German Metalworkers' Association. Since 1930 he was a member of the SPD district committee of Thuringia. From July 1932 to 1933 Petrich was a member of the Reichstag .

After the beginning of the National Socialism , Petrich was imprisoned for several months. He then worked as an insurance agent. Between 1935 and 1939 he found a job with the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture . During this time he participated in the founding of the resistance group German Popular Front . At the beginning of the Second World War he was arrested in 1939 as part of the special war campaign . In July 1940 he was sentenced to eight years in prison for alleged "preparation for high treason ". Shortly before the end of the war, Petrich was shot in the Sonnenburg prison.

Commemoration

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

A street in Gera is named after Petrich. Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Petrich in Berlin near the Reichstag .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon of the German Resistance. Frankfurt am Main 1994, p. 195.

literature

  • Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century . With a foreword by Gerhard Schröder . Schüren, Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , p. 251.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Petrich, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berkenbrugge
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1945
Place of death Sonnenburg prison