Fritz Rupprecht

Fritz Rupprecht (born April 16, 1897 in Fürth ; † August 27, 1990 there ) was a German politician of the SPD ; he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament until 1966 .

Life

Rupprecht attended elementary school and the commercial training school in Fürth. He completed his commercial apprenticeship at the Fürth company Forchheimer & Schloss, which specialized in haberdashery, white and woolen goods, where he worked as a commercial clerk until June 1916. In the second half of the First World War he worked as a front soldier, foot artilleryman, telephone and radio operator, after the war he was a contract employee at the artillery depot in Fürth. In 1921 he started as a commercial clerk at Beldam-Werken, a machine factory in Nuremberg , where he last headed sales. In 1930 he moved to Berlin's Adam Schneider AG as authorized signatory . In 1945 he went back to Nuremberg and was for a short time commercial manager at the electroplating institute Ernst Bundle. Then he was appointed refugee commissioner for the city and district of Fürth . He held this office until 1949, and from 1948 he was also a member of the bizonal Economic Council in Frankfurt am Main . After this time he returned to his original occupation and worked as a freelance representative for Northern Bavaria at Bund-Verlag in Cologne and as a commercial clerk at Quelle in Fürth. From 1956 on, Rupprecht was a member of the Fürth city council. In the state elections in 1958, he initially ran unsuccessfully for a mandate in the Bavarian state parliament , but on December 11th he replaced the late Heinrich Stöhr . He was a member of the state parliament until 1966.

The Fritz-Rupprecht-Haus bears his name in the Burgfarrnbach district of Fürth .

Web links

• Fritz Rupprecht in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Short biography about Fritz Rupprecht on the pages of the Bavarian State Parliament