Fritz Gäbler

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Portrait on a postage stamp of the GDR

Fritz Gäbler (born January 12, 1897 in Meißen ; † March 26, 1974 in Berlin ) was a German politician (since 1914 a member of the SPD and since 1919 a member of the KPD ) and editor.

Life and political work

The son of a slipper maker attended elementary school from 1903 to 1911 and then completed an apprenticeship as a potter and stove maker. He became the second chairman of the workers' youth education association in his hometown and joined the SPD a year later in Jena . In November of the same year he was employed there by the Weimarische Volkszeitung . During the First World War he was involved in illegal actions by young opponents of the war. From 1916 to 1918, however, he was drafted into the war he had rejected. Immediately after the war and the November Revolution, he switched from the Social Democrats to the KPD in 1919.

Weimar Republic

During the Weimar Republic he was secretary in Thuringia from 1920/21 and from 1922 chairman of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJD). For the KJD he took part in December 1922 on III. World Congress of the Communist Youth International in Moscow and was also represented a month beforehand at the IV World Congress of the Communist International in Moscow.

From April 1923 to October 1923 he took on the role of instructor of the Executive Committee in Switzerland for the International Union of Communist Youth. He also became a representative of the Central Committee of the KJD in Dresden . Between mid-1924 and March 1926 he worked as an editor for the Hamburger Volkszeitung . Between May 1927 and the beginning of 1928 he was an editor at the Roten Echo in Erfurt and from 1928 to November 1929 at the Neue Zeitung in Jena .

During the second half of the Weimar Republic, Fritz Gäbler was convicted and imprisoned several times for “ preparing to commit high treason ”. Sentenced to 12 months in prison in March 1926, he had to serve his sentence in the Bautzen correctional facility . From November 1929 to April 1931 he was imprisoned for two years in Gollnow and Auerbach . He remained politically active while in custody and became the leader of the communist group in the Gollnow Fortress.

From April 1931 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament and secretary of the KPD for East Thuringia . He was married to Marta Przygoda (1900-1970) since 1924.

Period of the National Socialist regime

During the time of National Socialism he was imprisoned from February 1933 to September 1934 in the Nohra and Bad Sulza concentration camps and in the Ichtershausen prison. He then worked illegally in 1934/35 and was active for the KPD district leadership Berlin-Brandenburg . In February 1935 he was arrested again and sentenced to twelve years in prison. He served this sentence from 1935 to 1945 in Brandenburg-Görden .

Post-war period and GDR

After the time of the Nazi regime, he took on editorial tasks again. From May to September 1945 he worked for the daily newspaper Rundschau and a member of the editorial team of the Deutsche Volkszeitung . He also resumed his political engagement. From October 1945 to April 1946 he assumed the role of district secretary of the KPD Erfurt- Weißensee and then until October 1947 also as chairman of the SED district committee in Erfurt. He also became a member of the city council.

He held leading economic functions and was a member of the Central Revision Commission of the SED from 1954 until his death and was its chairman until 1967. Most recently he was the chairman of the Central Committee of the SED Central Committee for the care of old deserving party members.

tomb

His urn is buried at the Socialist Memorial in Berlin.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Junge Welt, January 12, 1987

Web links and sources

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personal data
SURNAME Gäbler, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1974
Place of death Berlin