Fritz Helmstädter

Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Helmstädter , (born December 1, 1904 in Edingen , † March 14, 1971 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Helmstädter worked from 1928 to 1933 as a trade union secretary and at the same time was Gausekretär of the Central Association of Employees (ZdA) in Württemberg . In 1943, proceedings were opened against him for “decomposing military strength”. After the Second World War he worked as a tax consultant in Stuttgart. He was also a member of the supervisory board of the Stuttgart consumer cooperative.

His father Julius Helmstädter (1879–1945), 1932/33 member of the state parliament in Baden , died in 1945 in a concentration camp, his eldest brother in 1944 in a punitive battalion. His son Wilfried Helmstädter (1930-2006) was also a politician and from 1972 to 1980 a member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg .

politics

Helmstädter joined the SPD before 1933, was chairman of the SPD local association in Stuttgart-Wangen from 1945 to 1950 and was elected chairman of the district association of social democrats in Stuttgart after the end of the war. From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden and from 1950 to 1952 deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. The state parliament elected him in 1949 as a member of the first Federal Assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President. He was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament from 1952 to 1968. In 1947 he ran for the office of Lord Mayor of Pforzheim , but was defeated in the election by Johann Peter Brandenburg .