Fritz Salm

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Fritz Salm (born August 21, 1913 in Mannheim ; † June 3, 1985 ) was a German politician ( KPD / DKP ) and anti-fascist resistance fighter .

Salm completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith at the BBC in Mannheim. He joined the Socialist Workers 'Youth and was involved in the local youth group of the German Metal Workers' Association . In the course of the dispute over the construction of future armored cruisers , which the SPD supported and the KPD rejected, Salm joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in 1929 . Even after the NSDAP and its German national alliance partners came to power, he remained active in the KJVD, which is why he was arrested in 1935 and sentenced to three years and six months in prison. After an unsuccessful attempt to escape, he was severely mistreated by the Gestapo . After his release from prison in 1938, Salm was a fitter at the Lanzwerke and there was a member of the KPD's illegal works group.

After the end of the Nazi regime, Salm succeeded the late Paul Schreck as a member of the KPD in the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden , of which he was a member until 1950. He was involved in Mannheim in the VVN , of which he was elected chairman. Professionally active as a freelance journalist and was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state executive committee of the DKP in the 1970s.

In 2014 the City Council of Mannheim decided to name the streets on the area of ​​the former Turley Barracks after anti-fascist resistance fighters. At the request of the Left and the Green Council groups and with the support of the neighborhood building initiative “Solidarischer Wohnen und Kulturraum Mannheim e. V. “the council decided to name a street after Fritz Salm. The inauguration was celebrated with a big street festival in April 2017 at the intersection of Fritz-Salm-Straße / Marianne-Cohn -Straße .

Publications

  • In the shadow of the executioner: On the resistance of workers in Mannheim. 2. verb. Edition Frankfurt / Main 1979, ISBN 3-87682-033-2 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the municipal council of the city of Mannheim: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: municipal council proposal 223/09. ) (PDF) Mannheim 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / webkosima.mannheim.de
  2. To the current discussion about the naming of streets on the Turley area. SWK supports the proposal by the Greens and the Left, March 5, 2014, swk-mannheim.de .; buergerinfo.mannheim.de.