Fritz Esser (politician, 1886)

Fritz Esser (born August 4, 1886 in Peine , † August 27, 1961 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( SPD , KPD ).

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Fritz Esser grew up in Saxony. He attended elementary schools in Peine, Chemnitz and Laubsdorf . Then he learned the model carpentry trade. In 1904 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). During the First World War , Esser was badly wounded and afterwards, as a disabled man, was unable to practice the profession he had learned. Instead, Esser made a living as a welfare worker.

After the war, Esser became a member of the USPD in 1920 , later of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

From 1921 to 1924 and between 1928 and 1933, Esser was a member of the Hamburg parliament . In May 1922 he became head of the KPD sub-district Itzehoe. In 1923 Esser became a member of the district leadership in the KPD district Wasserkante. A criminal case against Esser because of his role in the Hamburg uprising of 1923, in which he was involved in a leading position, ended in an acquittal. In May 1924 Esser ran for constituency 34 (Hamburg) and was elected to the Reichstag for the KPD , of which he was a member until December of the same year. In 1926, Esser was expelled from the KPD as a member of the “left opposition”. In 1927 he rejoined the party.

On November 6, 1933, Esser was arrested by the Secret State Police . In the following years he was held prisoner in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp . Inadvertently, reports were made several times that he had been murdered there. But it was about his son Alwin (March 7, 1912 - March 10, 1933). On April 12, 1934, Esser was sentenced to two years in prison by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court . On November 30, 1935, Esser was released from the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. After 1945 he no longer emerged politically.

literature

• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed February 5, 2012]).

Web links

• Fritz Esser in the database of members of the Reichstag