Fritz Reich

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Fritz Simon Reich (born August 31, 1868 in Königsberg ; † exact date and place of death unknown, date of death set by the Hamburg District Court : May 31, 1944 ) was a politician, businessman and victim of the Nazi regime.

Life

The Reich, who came from a Jewish family, attended grammar school in Königsberg up to Obersekunda and then completed a commercial apprenticeship in a grocery store in his hometown and did his military service. In the following years - from 1891 to 1897 - Reich lived and worked in London as a commercial clerk. In 1897 Reich settled in Hamburg, where he worked as an independent broker and owner of the FS Reich company and later also as a sworn shareholder in the wholesale trade on the stock exchange.

In the elections in October 1927, Reich was elected to the Hamburg citizenship for the economic party, but lost his mandate a few months later in the re-election in February 1928. In his only parliamentary speech, he had voted for the fee relief for small and medium-sized enterprises and the Administrative reform pronounced.

In the years after the NSDAP came to power, Reich temporarily ran an oil company in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst , after the November pogroms in 1938 he was forced to move to the Grindelviertel . In January 1944, Reich was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , and it can be assumed that he was murdered here or in one of the National Socialist extermination camps .

Stumbling block for Fritz Simon Reich

In Hamburg on June 8, 2012, stumbling blocks were laid in front of the town hall for the murdered members of the Hamburg citizenship, including Fritz Reich.

literature

  • Short biography in Frank Müller: Members of the citizenry. Victim of totalitarian persecution. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Published by the citizens of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Hamburg 1995, DNB 944894100 , p. 64f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stumbling blocks for murdered MdHB final inscriptions City Hall Hamburg (PDF; 16 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Reich, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reich, Fritz Simon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Member of the Bundestag, businessman and victim of Nazi Germany
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH at May 31, 1944