Friedrich Hell

Friedrich ("Fritz") Hell (born January 24, 1892 in Wiesbaden ; † April 2, 1957 ) was a German FDGB functionary and politician of the KPD . He was state chairman of the FDGB Mecklenburg and also a member of the state parliament . In 1933/34 he had been at the head of the communist resistance in Wiesbaden.

Life

Hell, the son of a master painter , attended elementary school and completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator between 1906 and 1909 . From 1909 to 1914 he went on a hike . In 1907 he joined the socialist youth movement and in 1911 became a member of the SPD . Between 1914 and 1918 served as Hell soldier in the First World War .

In 1918 Hell joined the USPD , in 1920 the KPD. In 1918/19 he worked as a tool lathe operator in Wiesbaden, then until 1923 as an iron lathe operator in the municipal gas works in Wiesbaden. From 1923 to 1925 Hell was secretary of the KPD's sub-district leadership in Wiesbaden and Ludwigshafen am Rhein as well as a member of the KPD's extended district leadership Hesse-Frankfurt. From 1924 to 1930 he was a city councilor in Wiesbaden. Between 1925 and 1927 he was an advertisement representative for the advertisement expedition for workers' newspapers in Berlin, then from 1927 to 1933 he was a tool lathe operator in Rüsselsheim and Wiesbaden.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Hell participated in the resistance in Wiesbaden and was head of the KPD sub-district of Wiesbaden. He stood over Anneliese Hoevel with the district leadership of the Communist Party in Frankfurt in conjunction. In a strategy paper drawn up by him at the beginning of 1934, Hell spoke out in favor of increased "factory work" and advocated cooperation with former Reichsbanner and SPD workers. In September 1934 Hell was arrested in Wiesbaden. On December 1, 1934, he was sentenced to five years in prison by the Higher Regional Court of Kassel for “preparing for high treason ” . After his imprisonment expired, Hell was not released, but was imprisoned in the Buchenwald and Ravensbrück concentration camps until 1945 (from 1943).

After the liberation, Hell actively participated in the establishment of the FDGB, was a member of the advisory FDGB state assembly of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and in 1945 acted as secretary of the FDGB in Stargard and Neustrelitz . In 1946 he became a member of the SED. From July 1946 to April 1947 he was chairman of the FDGB state board of Mecklenburg, then from 1947 to 1949 vice-president of the Mecklenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry . From 1947 to 1951 Hell acted as the cultural director of the Schwerin municipal business , then from 1951 to 1957 as the managing director of the Schwerin regional authority for motor traffic .

From 1946 to 1950 Hell was also a member of the Mecklenburg state parliament and a member of the economic committee there.

literature

• Lothar Bembenek, Axel Ulrich: Resistance and persecution in Wiesbaden 1933–1945. A documentation . Anabas-Verlag, Giessen 1990, ISBN 3-87038-155-8 , passim.
• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 926.
• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 134.
• Andreas Herbst: Hell, Friedrich . In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .

Web links

• Hell, Fritz . In: MV-Data. The biographical database .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lothar Bembenek, Fritz Schumacher: “Not all are dead who are buried”: Resistance and persecution in Wiesbaden 1933–1945 . Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, p. 54.
2. ↑ Klaus Mammach: Resistance 1933-1939. History of the German anti-fascist resistance movement in Germany and in emigration . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984, p. 54.
3. ↑ Axel Ulrich: Konrad Arndt. A Wiesbaden trade unionist and social democrat in the fight against fascism ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 864 kB). Wiesbaden 2001, p. 41. 
4. ↑ According to Broszat (1993) as early as May 1946.