Fritz Dobisch

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Fritz Dobisch (born February 16, 1890 in Merzingen ; † July 7, 1941 in Buchenwald concentration camp ) was a German trade union official and victim of the Nazi regime.

Life

After finishing school, Dobisch completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Nördlingen and then worked in this profession. He took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 as a soldier in the German Army . After the war he moved to Bous with his wife Katharina Portz . There he was one of the co-founders of the local association of the SPD .

From 1919 Dobisch worked in Luisenthal at the Association of Factory Workers in Germany as a trade union secretary and was already district manager there in 1920. He was elected chairman of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) Saar in 1928 and held this office until 1935. Dobisch continued his leadership role at the factory workers' association. From 1930 he lived in Saarbrücken , where he was a member of the city council for the SPD. After the National Socialists came to power in the German Reich , Dobisch tried to keep the ADGB away from clashes with the NSDAP in the Saar area . In the course of the vote in the Saar area about its future status, the Saarland ADGB positioned itself at its conference in Saarbrücken on December 16, 1934 for maintaining the status quo .

"Those who are for freedom, who are for a better future, vote for the status quo on January 13th!"

- Fritz Dobisch : The history of social democracy in Bous at www.spd-bous.de

On February 17, 1935, two weeks before the Saar was reintegrated into the German Empire, Dobisch emigrated to Luxembourg with his wife . During the Second World War , Dobisch was arrested by members of the Gestapo in May 1940 after the Wehrmacht had occupied Luxembourg . He was then imprisoned in Trier and Düsseldorf and at the beginning of July 1941 was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was murdered on July 7, 1941. A letter from Buchenwald concentration camp officially stated that the cause of death was “concussion by accident”. The urn with his remains is buried in the cemetery in Bous.

Honors

  • The Fritz-Dobisch-Strasse in Saarbrücken was named after Dobisch.

literature

  • Hermann Volk: Local history guide to places of resistance and persecution 1933-1945 . Volume 4 Saarland, Cologne 1989, p. 14.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fritz Dobisch ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at Saarländische Biografien
  2. ↑ a b The history of social democracy in Bous ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at www.spd-bous.de
  3. ↑ a b Fritz Dobisch  ( 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.spd-bous.de  
  4. ↑ Johannes A. Bodwing: The SPD Bous celebrates its 90th birthday . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from June 5, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Dobisch, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union official and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Merzingen
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1941
Place of death Buchenwald concentration camp