Fritz Ehrler

Friedrich Ehrler (called Fritz; born March 6, 1871 in Ingolstadt ; † October 19, 1944 in Wiesbaden ) was a German trade union official and social democratic politician.

Life

Friedrich Ehrler was born as the son of Andreas Wilburger and Josefa Katharina Ehrler. He attended elementary school and was then trained as a mechanic at Krauss-Maffei (Munich). He worked in several machine factories before he became editor of the social democratic Thuringian Volksblatt in 1898 . From 1901 he headed the Frankfurt am Main district of the German Metalworkers' Association , in whose development he was involved. From 1915 to 1918 he was a country storm man in Russia. On November 17, 1919, he became police chief of Frankfurt and exactly six years later president of the Wiesbaden administrative district . His work was largely determined by the French occupation of the demilitarized Rhineland (until 1930) and by the subsequent economic crisis . On February 11, 1933, he was removed from his service by the new National Socialist Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Göring .

The latest newspaper from Frankfurt commented, not yet synchronized , the dismissal critically:

“District President Ehrler is one of those men who, through their drive and skills, have risen from metalworker to high and political state office. Nothing would be more unfair than that if one wanted to accuse the now removed president that it was the 'party book' to which he owed his position. [...] Mr. Ehrler was appointed regional president in Wiesbaden as the successor of the deceased regional president Haenisch and - although he suffered badly from illness recently - he gained respect and trust in this new sphere of activity as well, enjoying himself as impartial and fairer Superiors very popular with his officials. The district president as a 'political official' has now fallen victim to the new political course. "

He had been married to Christa Bender from Augsburg since May 18, 1920 . They had three children: Fritz Ehrler (born September 12, 1920; died 1942 in the Soviet Union), Katharina Ehrler (born November 4, 1921; married to Gerd Wibbing since 1944) and Hans Ehrler (born July 29, 1923; engineer) . On October 19, 1944, the Ehrler couple were killed in a bomb attack on Rüdesheimer Strasse in Wiesbaden.

literature

• Karlheinz Müller: Prussian eagle and Hessian lion . Verlag Kultur und Wissen, Wiesbaden 1966, pp. 251–282, p. 417
• Herrmann AL Degener (ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries . 10th edition, Degener, Berlin and Leipzig 1935, p. 345
• Peter Sandner: Administration of the murder of the sick. The Nassau District Association under National Socialism . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2003, ISBN 3-89806-320-8 , p. 727, pdf
• Heinrich Stohlmann: Contributions to the history of the Wibbing families . Self-published, Herford 1984, p. 72

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Latest newspaper, February 13, 1933, p. 5