Fritz Schiller

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On the occasion of the renaming of the street 900 to Rabindranath-Tagore-Strasse on May 6, 1961 in Berlin-Grünau , the Indian visiting professor Nohamad Asraf (center), the director of the Institute for Indian Studies at the Humboldt University Walter Ruben (right) and the District Mayor of Köpenick Fritz Schiller (left).

Fritz Schiller (born February 19, 1912 in Königsberg , Prussia , † May 29, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SED ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was the district mayor of Berlin-Köpenick .

Life

Schiller, son of a worker, attended elementary school and learned the trade of carpenter . In 1926 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth and in 1930 the Communist Youth Association of Germany .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Schiller took part in the communist resistance. He was arrested in 1933. Schiller spent two and a half years in the Lichtenburg and Sachsenhausen concentration camps . During the Second World War he had to do military service as a soldier and was taken prisoner of war .

After his release, Schiller joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He found his wife and son, who had come from East Prussia as resettlers, and was assigned an apartment in Berlin-Zehlendorf in the American sector in November 1946 , from which they were to be evacuated in August 1949. He attended the party college "Karl Marx" at the Central Committee of the SED and then worked as a party functionary in the state of Brandenburg . From September 1951 to September 1961 he was district mayor of Berlin-Köpenick. From November 1958 he was also a member of the Magistrate of Greater Berlin .

Schiller died at the age of 80 and was buried in the grove of honor for the victims of National Socialism at the Baumschulenweg cemetery.

Award

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 303.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 290.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We introduce: District Mayor Fritz Schiller . In: Neues Deutschland , August 20, 1957, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Anti-fascists are thrown out of the apartments . In: Neues Deutschland , August 17, 1949, p. 6.
  3. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of June 13, 1992, p. 8.
  4. ^ Fritz Schiller in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved October 8, 2017. .
personal data
SURNAME Schiller, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED) and resistance fighters against the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1992
Place of death Berlin