Fritz Rück

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Fritz Rück (born April 15, 1895 in Stuttgart ; † November 18, 1959 there ) was a German publicist , socialist politician and organizer of the November Revolution in Württemberg .

Life

Fritz Rück was the son of a carpenter and trained as a typesetter. He became active in the socialist youth movement in Stuttgart and joined the SPD in 1913 . There he joined the political circle of friends of Friedrich Westmeyer . During the First World War he joined the Spartacus group . He became a soldier in 1915, but discharged from military service in 1917 due to a kidney disease. Then he worked in the editorial office of the Stuttgart newspaper Der Sozialdemokrat , which was published by Westmeyer. From April 6 to 8, 1917, Rück took part in the founding party conference of the USPD in Gotha and was then taken into custody for four months. In October 1917, Rück became state chairman of the USPD in Württemberg. In October 1918 he took part in the Reich Conference of the Spartacus Group in Berlin. At the end of October and beginning of November 1918, Rück and August Thalheimer played a leading role in the organization and implementation of the demonstrations in Stuttgart, which ultimately led to the overthrow of the monarchy in the Kingdom of Württemberg on November 9th . On November 4th he became chairman of the newly formed illegal Stuttgart workers' council. On the evening of November 6th, he and Thalheimer were arrested in Ulm on the way from Stuttgart to Friedrichshafen , so that on the decisive November 9th he was unable to direct the revolutionary activities of the Spartakusbund in Stuttgart. He and Thalheimer were not released until the late evening of November 9th. Rück was one of the leading figures in the workers 'and soldiers' council in Stuttgart until the end of November, then went to the headquarters of the Spartakusbund in Berlin for a few weeks and returned to Stuttgart to carry out the Spartacus uprising , during which he was arrested in January 1919. He was acquitted in the "Stuttgart Spartakist Trial".

During the years of the Weimar Republic he appeared as a traveling speaker and editor of communist newspapers, including Die Rote Fahne . From 1927, Rück worked with Johannes R. Becher for the agitprop department of the KPD's central committee in Berlin . In 1929 Rück, who belonged to the “right” wing of the party around August Thalheimer and Heinrich Brandler , left the KPD, but did not join the KPO , but instead joined the SPD. In autumn 1931 he joined the SAP , where he and Gertrud Düby were among the spokesmen for a group close to the KPD and was expelled from the party in June 1932 because of an election call for the KPD. A subsequent request by Rück to re-join the KPD was not granted. With the beginning of the reign of the Nazis, he emigrated in 1933 to Switzerland , where he worked as a journalist for the left-social democratic and trade union press. From there he went to Sweden in 1937 and worked as a publicist for the workers' press, correspondent for Swiss newspapers and as a translator. During this period he was politically active in the national group Sweden of the foreign representation of the German trade unions , from 1943 he was a member of the board as a representative of the members of the KPO, Trotskyists and non-party socialists.

In 1950 Fritz Rück returned to his hometown Stuttgart and rejoined the SPD. He was editor-in-chief of the trade union newspaper of IG Druck und Papier and a member of the federal committee of the DGB . In addition, he was national chairman of NaturFreunde from 1955 until his death .

Pseudonyms

Fritz Rück sometimes used the pseudonyms Peter Wedding and Leo Kipfer.

Works

  • Dungeon flowers. Poems from the war time. Stuttgart 1918
  • From August 4th until the Russian Revolution . Leipzig 1920
  • From Bismarck to Hermann Müller. The path of German social democracy from the socialist law for armored cruiser A . Berlin 1928
  • Wedding in words and pictures . Berlin 1931
  • 1919-1939. Peace without security . Stockholm 1945
  • Millennial Sweden. From the Viking Age to Social Reform . Stuttgart 1956
  • November 1918 . Stuttgart 1958

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.naturfreunde.de/ein-halbes-leben-fuer-die-revolution
personal data
SURNAME Back, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rück, Friedrich; Wedding, Peter (pseudonym); Kipfer, Leo (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION socialist politician and trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1959
Place of death Stuttgart