Friedrich Pfordt
Friedrich Pfordt (born February 18, 1900 in Landsweiler-Reden ; † October 12, 1957 in Saarbrücken ) was a Saarland politician ( KPD ).
Life
Pfordt first worked as a locksmith at the railway workshops in Neunkirchen . At the end of the First World War it was used by the military as a locomotive heater.
In 1921 he joined the USPD and in 1923 the KPD. As a trade union official and authorized representative of various local administrations, he worked in the Unified Association of Railway Workers in Germany (EdED). However, Pfordt was excluded from the EdED in 1928 because of support for the changed orientation of the KPD trade union policy. He then took over functions in the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition . In the regional council elections in 1928 he missed entry, but was able to move up in 1929 for the retired Philipp Daub . He was a member of the parliament until 1932. From 1929 Pfordt was also editor-in-chief of the Saarbrücker Arbeiter-Zeitung . From 1930 he was "organizational leader" of the KPD in the Saar party district.
In the run-up to the Saar referendum in 1935, Pfordt was one of the leading forces of the united front alongside Max Braun , which campaigned against the annexation of the Saar area to the German Reich . From 1934 he became the "political leader" of the KPD party district of Saar.
In 1935 Pfordt took part in the VII World Congress of the Communist International and in the following years worked for the International Red Aid . In 1939 he broke with his party. During the Second World War he stayed in Sweden, where he was temporarily interned.
After the end of the war back in Saarland , he headed the Mouvement pour le Rattachement de la Sarre à la France (MRS) from 1946 to 1949 and was also one of the editors of the MRS organ Die Neue Saar .
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed January 1, 2013]).
- Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state: persecution - resistance - emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 306, 609 (short biography).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfordt, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfordt, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (USPD, KPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landsweiler speeches |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1957 |
| Place of death | Saarbrücken |