Fritz Emrich

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Fritz Emrich (born August 19, 1894 in Weihstein (Silesia), † July 23, 1947 in Berlin ) was a German anti-fascist resistance fighter and politician (KPD). He was a member of the Reichstag.

Live and act

The son of a bricklayer learned the tailoring trade after attending elementary school . In the following years he worked in the textile industry. Since 1910 Emrich was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1920 Emrich switched to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1928 he was a full-time functionary in the central committee of the KPD. In connection with the 4th World Congress of the Red Trade Union International (RGI) in 1928, he was appointed to the Presidium of Profintern . From 1929/30 Emrich was a member of the Reich Committee of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO). In July 1930 he temporarily took over the role of Reichsleiter of the RGO after Paul Merker had been ousted from this post. Emrich's area of ​​responsibility as RGO Reichsleiter ended in October 1930 when he was replaced by Franz Dahlem in this role. After that he continued to work in a leading position in the RGO Reich Committee. In July 1932, Emrich was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate of the KPD for constituency 11 (Merseburg) , of which he was a member until March 1933.

Immediately after the Reichstag fire in February 1933, Emrich was arrested by the National Socialists as a communist member of the Reichstag. In March of the same year Emrich was re-elected to the Reichstag - this time for constituency 18 (Westphalia-South) - but, like the other KPD members of the Reichstag, could no longer take up his mandate. Until 1936 he was imprisoned in the Esterwegen and Papenburg concentration camps . After his release, Emrich worked as a conscript in a chemical cleaning factory and was active in the Berlin underground organization of the KPD. During the Second World War , Emrich was a member of the Berlin resistance organization around Anton Saefkow and played a key role in establishing the network of this organization. From the arrest of Anton Saefkov in July 1944, he struggled on his own until the victory of the Red Army in May 1945 illegally in the capital of the collapsing German Reich.

After the war, Emrich worked for a short time in May 1945 as head of the Friedrichshagen police station and soon afterwards in a leading position in the Presidium of the People's Police in Berlin. He was liaison officer to the magistrate, clerk in the command of the police and from December 1946 head of the personnel department of the police in Berlin. In 1946 he became a member of the SED. In 1947 the two police officers Emrich and Emil Klenz and seven other people had a fatal accident in an explosion at the command of the police at Schönhauser Allee 22. The accident was due to the gross negligence of a fireworker who was also killed.

His grave is in the Evangelical Cemetery Friedrichshagen in Aßmannstrasse.

Honors

  • Today Emrich-Straße in Treptow-Köpenick is a reminder of Fritz Emrich, who has had this name since June 1960.
  • In 1980 the after-work home at Köpenicker Werlseestrasse 39 was given the name Fritz Emrich .
  • In 1981, on the orders of the head of civil defense in Berlin, Erhard Krack , a civil defense formation from Funkwerk Köpenick was named Fritz Emrich .

Fonts

  • The mark of the tailor's apprentice. 1930.
  • Strike signal and treason: Hamburg. 1933.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Stefan Heinz : Moscow's mercenaries? The “Unified Association of Metal Workers in Berlin”: Development and failure of a communist union . Hamburg 2010, pp. 103, 139 ff., 143 f., 156 ff., 277.
  2. ^ Obituary in Neues Deutschland from July 26, 1947
  3. ^ New Germany of May 9, 1971
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of July 25, 1947
  5. ^ New Germany of August 20, 1980
  6. ^ New Germany of February 5, 1981
personal data
SURNAME Emrich, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Weihstein
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1947
Place of death Berlin