Fritz Bäsel

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Friedrich "Fritz" Bäsel (born May 1, 1907 in Wiebelskirchen , † November 17, 1975 in Saarbrücken ) was a Saarland politician ( Communist Party ).

Life

After primary school, Bäsel worked in the Neunkircher ironworks from 1921 and was active in the free trade unions . At first it was organized in the German Building Trade Association, later in the German Metal Workers Association (DMV). In 1923 he joined the Communist Youth Association and in 1928 became a member of the Communist Party . Because of his activity as chairman of the workers' committee (1929-1931) in the context of the policy of the revolutionary trade union opposition (RGO), he was reprimanded by his employer and finally dismissed. He then worked as a volunteer and then until 1934 as an editor at the Saarbrücker Arbeiter-Zeitung . In addition, he was a member of the municipal council of Wiebelskirchen from 1932 to 1935 as chairman of the Communist Party. After the return of the Saarland to the German Reich (1935), Bäsel was persecuted politically, which is why he emigrated to France. He was eventually arrested and detained in a labor camp for five years.

politics

After the war he was second chairman of the Saarland Communist Party and worked as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Neue Zeit. From 1947 he was a member of the first state parliament of Saarland , but he gave up his mandate again in 1950 because of internal party disputes. He then worked as an editor in Mannheim and Düsseldorf until 1954 . After his return to Saarland, he was the first state secretary of the Communist Party. In 1955 he was again elected to the Saarland state parliament. Because of the KPD ban and the accession of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany , the Federal Constitutional Court also ordered the ban on the Saarland KP in 1957 . In an election review procedure , the Saarland state parliament took part on 17./18. July 1959 determined that the mandates of the communist MPs Bäsel and Erich Walch were canceled without replacement, but both were able to exercise their rights as members of the state parliament until the end of the electoral term in December 1960 due to a temporary order by the constitutional court of Saarland . In the main , the method 1961 set.

Bäsel died on November 17, 1975 and was buried in the main cemetery in Saarbrücken .

literature

  • Landtag des Saarlandes (ed.): Manual. State Parliament of the Saarland. Saarbrücken 1957. p. 311.
  • Stefan Heinz : Friedrich Bäsel (1907–1975) , In: Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz (ed.) With the collaboration of Julia Pietsch: Emigrierte Metallgewerkschafter in the fight against the Nazi regime (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 3). Metropol, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-210-7 , pp. 450–458.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Christian Herrmann: The Saar in the sights of the SED. In: Dialog 15. October 23, 1955 - 50 years later. Saarbrücken 2007. p. 26 f. ( PDF file  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sds-akademie.de  
  2. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court, decision of March 21, 1957, BVerfGE 6, 300
  3. ↑ Red stand-up man . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1961 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court, decision of October 10, 1961, Az. 2 BvN 1/60, BVerfGE 13, 165
  5. ^ Constitutional Court of the Saarland, decision of December 12, 1961, Az. Lv 5/59 ( Memento of January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Bäsel, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bäsel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiebelskirchen
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1975
Place of death Saarbrücken