Fritz Endres

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Fritz Endres

Fritz Endres (born October 15, 1877 in Ebenhausen , Lower Franconia; † May 2, 1963 in Munich ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

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After attending elementary school in Würzburg from 1884 to 1891, Endres completed an apprenticeship in coppersmiths in Würzburg until 1894. He then worked for ten years as a coppersmith in the railway workshop in Würzburg. In 1900 he married.

After Endres had already joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) around 1895 , he served as secretary for the SPD district of Franconia from 1908 to 1927. From February 1911 to October 1918 he was also the workers' secretary of the free trade union cartel in Würzburg . He then took over the position of managing director of the Würzburg administration office of the German Metalworkers' Association . Later he was a member of the Union of Railway Workers in Germany (EdED), for which he took on several functions. Since 1911 Endres was also a member of the community college and the poor council of the city of Würzburg.

From 1912 to 1918 and from 1920 to 1933 Endres was a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies .

From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War .

After the collapse of the monarchy in Germany on November 7, 1918 , after he had returned from Munich, Endres took over the chairmanship , also called by Endres against the official line of the Bavarian Social Democracy on November 2, 1918 in Würzburg at a popular assembly in the Hutten Garden of the workers 'and soldiers' council of Würzburg, largely supported by the majority social democracy ( MSPD ) . On December 15, 1918, the Eisner government sent him to the General Command of the II Army Corps in Würzburg as a representative of the provisional Bavarian government . He was then from January 1919 to June 1920 a member of the Weimar National Assembly for constituency 26 (Franconia) .

In March 1919, Endres was appointed Minister of Justice by the Bavarian Council Congress . In May of the same year he moved to the Ministry of the Interior , which he led until March 1920. After that he limited himself to his work as a member of the state parliament and as a functionary of his party in Franconia .

Endres was also chairman of the social democratic association and trade union cartel in Würzburg and member of the board of the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Würzburg Stadt and the consumer association Würzburg. As a journalist, he distinguished himself as the author of various essays on topics relating to social security and labor law, war invalids and the welfare of the bereaved.

After the National Socialists seized power , Endres was under observation by the Nazi security authorities as a potential political opponent. From June 30, 1933 to around August of the same year and from August 23 to September 2, 1944 ( Aktion Gewitter ), Endres was taken into “ protective custody ” by the National Socialists and held in the Dachau concentration camp .

On December 15, 1959, he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit .

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) . Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , p. 364, 451 f. (Short biography).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Stickler : New Beginning and Continuity: Würzburg in the Weimar Republic. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007, pp. 177-195 and 1268-1271; here: pp. 178–180.
personal data
SURNAME Endres, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebenhausen , Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1963
Place of death Munich