Fritz Catta

Grave of Fritz Catta in the main cemetery in Kassel

Fritz Catta (born January 11, 1886 in Wiesbaden , † September 17, 1968 in Kassel ) was a German architect and liberal local and state politician.

Life and work

Fritz Catta came from a Huguenot family who traditionally represented liberal positions. His grandfather Wilhelm Friedrich Catta was so involved in the March Revolution in 1848 that he was arrested and then banned from Wiesbaden. Fritz Catta attended a middle school and a higher private school, made a master craftsman's examination as a bricklayer and carpenter and studied at the building trade school in Kassel . From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War .

In 1919, Catta set up his own architecture office in Kassel. After 1945 he was chairman of the Wilhelmshöhe Reconstruction Association . In 1966 he was made an honorary citizen of Kassel, having received the Federal Cross of Merit and the Goethe plaque from the State of Hesse in 1956.

politics

In the Weimar Republic , Catta belonged to the German People's Party (DVP) and from 1923 to 1933 was parliamentary group leader of the DVP in the Kassel city parliament. From 1930 to 1933 he was also chairman of the working group of the parliamentary groups there.

In 1945 Catta participated in the founding of the Liberal Democratic Party in Hesse , which later became the Hessian regional association of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) . From 1946 to 1956 he was district chairman of the FDP Kassel and was then elected honorary chairman of the district association.

MP

In 1946, Catta was a member of the Hesse State Advisory Committee . He was then a member of the state assembly advising the constitution and then until 1958 a member of the state parliament . He was deputy parliamentary group leader and a member of the state executive committee of his party.

In 1949 and 1954 Catta was a member of the Federal Assembly .

literature

• Bernhard Parisius , Jutta Scholl-Seibert (Berab.): "... going towards democracy". The minutes of the regional advisory committee of Greater Hesse in 1946. Documentation. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau , 65.) Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-930221-05-5 , pages 32–33.
• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 228 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 97.
• Ludwig Luckemeyer: Liberals in Hesse 1848–1980. 1980, pp. 118f.

Web links

• Catta, Fritz. Hessian biography. (As of February 9, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).