Fritz Esser (politician, 1914)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fritz Esser , actually Friedrich Esser, (born August 12, 1914 in Mannheim ; † February 16, 1978 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Esser came from the working class and grew up as the second youngest of five siblings in Mannheim. After elementary school , Esser completed an apprenticeship as a technician and attended a technical college . Then he worked as a machine technician. He had been a member of the SAJ since 1928 and the SPD since 1932. In 1933 he was dismissed as a machine technician for political reasons . From 1934 he ran a rental laundry.

During the Second World War , Esser volunteered for the Air Force to avoid political persecution by the Nazis. He was drafted to Memmingerberg. At the beginning of 1945 he was taken prisoner by the US, from where he managed to escape from a military hospital in Ulm in the summer of 1945. Back in civilian life, Esser resumed running his rental laundry in Mannheim's Luzenberg district.

From 1948, in addition to working in the laundry, he increasingly pursued his political career. From 1948 to 1951 he was chairman of the Young Socialists in Württemberg-Baden . In 1951 Esser was elected to the Mannheim municipal council for the first time , to which he was a member until 1968.

In 1954 Esser became managing director of the Mannheim workers' welfare organization.

Esser was honorary chairman of the Mannheim Youth Association from 1953 to 1960 and chairman of the German Youth Hostel Association from 1964 until his death in 1978 . From 1964 to 1968 he was president of SV Waldhof Mannheim .

From 1968 to 1972 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg for one legislative period . From 1975 until his death he was again a member of the Mannheim municipal council.

During his time as managing director of AWO Mannheim, the project planning and construction of an old people's and nursing home in Mannheim's Vogelstang district , which was inaugurated in 1978 , began in the mid-1970s . The home bears the name Fritz-Esser-Haus as a posthumous honor.

Esser was born from 1941 to 1948 with Lore Esser. Metzeler and from 1951 until his death with Gertrud Emilie Esser geb. Just married. Each marriage had a daughter.

literature

  • Wolfgang Brach: The Mannheim City Council 1945–1984 . Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-87804-162-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AWO district association Mannheim: Fritz-Esser-Haus. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .