Fritz Geisler

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Fritz Geisler

Fritz Geisler (born October 23, 1890 in Görlitz , † probably 1945 ) was a German politician (DNVP).

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Fritz Geisler was born in 1890 as the son of a foreman. After attending elementary school in Görlitz , he was trained as a mechanical engineer in companies and at the mechanical engineering school. In the following years he worked as a locksmith and lathe operator in various large Berlin companies.

After a few years of membership in the free trade unions , Geisler took part in the founding of the fatherland workers' movement (then called Werkvereine ). Geisler married for the first time in 1912. In 1913 he became district manager of the Federation of German Werkvereine for Thuringia and Saxony . At that time he was dependent first in Suhl , then in Gotha .

From August 1914 Geisler took part in the First World War. In 1917 or 1918 he became district manager of the Federation of German Works Associations and editor of his Central German newspaper Deutscher Arbeiter in Frankfurt am Main . After the Werkverein movement was smashed by the November Revolution of 1918, Geisler took part in the founding of the business-friendly German Workers 'Union , which saw itself as a new form of the patriotic workers' movement. Geisler took over the post of district manager in the workers' union. In 1919 he became chairman of the section of industrial workers of the German Workers 'Union and trade union editor of the German workers' newspaper .

In 1920 Geisler became the executive chairman of the central organization of the patriotic workers' movement, the National Association of German Professional Associations, based in Berlin.

In 1921 he was appointed deputy chairman of the Central Office of Patriotic Associations. In this capacity he directed sharp attacks against the social democrats and the trade unions. Also in 1921 Geisler became chairman of the Federation for Freedom and Order . After the United Patriotic Associations of Germany was founded in 1922, he was appointed executive chairman of this organization.

Around 1919 Geisler joined the German People's Party (DVP). In June 1920 he was elected for this in the first Reichstag of the republic , in which he represented constituency 4 (Potsdam I). In 1922 Geisler left the DVP parliamentary group in the Reichstag, to which he belonged as a non-attached member for almost two years . On May 4, 1924 Geisler joined the faction of the German National People's Party (DNVP), which was further to the right than the DVP, as a guest. Later he became a regular member of the DNVP for which he sat for two more legislative periods, until May 1928, as a representative of constituency 3 (Potsdam II) in the Reichstag.

Geisler, who was also a member of the Stahlhelm , made his first contact with Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists in 1923. In 1924 he spoke out in favor of Hitler's early release from the Landsberg Fortress , a recommendation he based on the assumption that Hitler's release from prison was part of the Volkish bloc weaken and thus feed new voters to the DNVP.

In 1929 Geisler became head of a Berlin banking business.

Geisler, who married for the second time in 1940, also worked for various daily newspapers and magazines. Geisler's fate after the end of the war in 1945 is unclear. Research assumes that he died in 1945. With this in mind, Geisler was judicially declared dead.

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  • The wrong front. Class struggle and treason "" Reichsbanner Nollet ". Speech by Fritz Geisler in the Reich Representative Assembly of the United Patriotic Associations of Germany on June 30, 1924 in Berlin on the occasion of the appearance of the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold with a foreword by Major General Graf von der Goltz. Berlin 1924 .
  • Reminder report. In: Julek Karl von Engelbrechten , Hans Volz : We wander through the National Socialist Berlin. Rather, Munich 1937, p. 53 f.
  • The careers of NCOs in the army. Mittler, Berlin 1938.

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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amrei Stupperich: Volksgemeinschaft or Arbeitersolidarität , 1982, p. 260.
  2. ↑ Joachim Fest: Hitler , 1974, p. 462.
  3. ^ Eberhard Kolb: Nationalliberalismus in der Weimarer Republik , 2nd half volume, 1999, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Geisler, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1945