Fritz Seidenstücker

Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Seidenstücker (born January 27, 1899 in Weimar ; † September 11, 1987 there ) was a German art glazier , resistance fighter against National Socialism and senior administrative officer. He belonged first to the USPD , then to the KPD and finally to the SED , from which he was expelled in 1951.

Life

Seidenstücker came from a Weimar family of craftsmen. His father was a cutter mill . After attending elementary school, he learned the trade of art glass and attended the trade school . In 1913 he entered the working class youth. From 1915 to 1925 he learned the second profession of welder , in which he was employed in Weimar and Apolda . In 1916 he became a member of the German Metalworkers Association (DMV) and head of its Weimar youth group. He was also a member of the Weimar Free Gymnastics Association , which he later took over as chairman. In 1918 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and in 1919 became a member of the free thinkers . In 1922 he joined the KPD . Since 1925 he was a member of the International Socialist Fighting League (ISK). Seidenstücker became a sales representative for a soap factory and later ran a sports shop. In 1931 he attended the workers gymnastics and sports school in Leipzig.

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he took up illegal resistance work against Nazi rule . He was discovered in 1937 and sentenced to several years in prison , which he served in Untermaßfeld and other prisons until 1942. In 1944 he was imprisoned again with the " Aktion grid " and interned in a penal camp near Bremen .

After the liberation from National Socialism , he became a consultant at the State Office for Agriculture in August 1945 . In October 1945 he joined the re-established KPD and was regional director in the State Office for Trade and Supply until 1946 and - after being removed from office by the SMAD - until September 1947 head of department in the State Office for Agriculture and Forestry . Then Seidenstücker was district administrator for the district of Weimar . After joining the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) as a result of the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD , he was a member of the Weimar district executive of the SED. In 1950 he attended the state party school and then resigned from office. Because of his previous ISK membership, he was expelled from the SED in 1951. He spent his last years as a driver .

literature

• Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia.) Small series Volume 29, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 566.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register of StA Weimar, No. 54/1899
2. ↑ Death Register StA Weimar, No. 537/1987
3. ↑ All further information in the text was taken from the book by Steffen Kachel from the bibliography.