Friedrich Regitz

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Friedrich "Friedel" Regitz (born June 7, 1925 in Neunkirchen ; † August 6, 1971 there ) was a Saarland politician ( SPS / SPD ) and journalist .

Life

After an apprenticeship at the Neunkirchen city administration, Regitz was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and the Wehrmacht in 1943. On April 20, 1943, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 9.536.212). During the war he was taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in 1945. He then worked for the Neunkirchen city administration until 1947.

Already in 1945 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Saarland (SPS) and was involved as youth secretary with the Socialist Youth . He completed a traineeship at the social democratic newspaper Volksstimme in Saarbrücken and later worked as an editor. From 1951 he was the Saarland correspondent for the Social Democratic Press Service in Bonn, for the party organ Vorwärts and other West German newspapers. He was also editor-in-chief of the Saarbrücker Allgemeine Zeitung .

From 1948 Regitz was a member of the SPS state board. In 1952 he was one of the founding members of the illegal German Social Democratic Party and became its second chairman under Kurt Conrad . After the party was approved in 1955, it took on the name SPD and took part in the election for the Saarland state parliament in the same year . Regitz won a seat and was re-elected three times. From 1956 to 1961 and from 1970 until his death he chaired the SPD parliamentary group. From 1966 he was also Lord Mayor of Neunkirchen.

Regitz died suddenly of a heart attack during an tonsil operation .

The Bürgermeister-Regitz-Straße in the Wellesweiler district of Neunkirchen was named after Regitz.

literature

  • Landtag des Saarlandes (ed.): Manual. State Parliament of the Saarland. Saarbrücken 1957. p. 369.
  • Toni Schulz: Friedrich Regitz: He remains unforgotten for many. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. August 6, 1996
  • Friedrich Regitz , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1971 of October 25, 1971, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar Klostermann: Brown traces in the Saar state parliament. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . May 21, 2013, accessed January 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch: List 1: Alphabetical list of members of the Saarland state parliament with proven NSDAP membership. (PDF; 2.15 MB) In: Brown traces in the Saar state parliament. The Nazi past of representatives from Saarland. The left. Parliamentary group in the Saarland State Parliament, Saarbrücken 2013, p. 18 , accessed on January 25, 2016 .
  3. ↑ cf. z. B. Google Maps
personal data
SURNAME Regitz, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Regitz, Friedel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1971
Place of death Neunkirchen