Fritz Tejessy
Fritz Tejessy (born December 6, 1895 in Brno ; † May 6, 1964 in Bonn ) was a German-Austrian, social-democratic journalist and constitutional protector in Prussia and North Rhine-Westphalia .
Tejessy was the son of a Jewish merchant and served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War . In the Weimar Republic he was an editor of the Kasseler Volksblatt , in which he fought against the later Nazi lawyer Roland Freisler . From 1926 until the Prussian strike in 1932, he headed the personnel department of the Political Police in Prussia as ministerial director under the Interior Minister Albert Grzesinski ( SPD ) , but was then retired by Chancellor Franz von Papen . His task was until then, the infiltration of the police in Prussia by the Nazis to prevent. In 1933 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia , where he was the SPD advisor for Slovakia from 1936 to 1938 , to Sweden in 1938 , and on to the USA via the USSR in 1941 , where he worked as a woolen weaver in New Hampshire . In 1949 he returned to Germany.
Under NRW Interior Minister Walter Menzel , Tejessy headed the information center in Düsseldorf from December 1949, which was supposed to prepare a federal German secret service if the SPD had won the 1949 federal election. Because of his NSDAP membership, he threw out the defender Richard Gerken , who nonetheless achieved a high position in the German constitutional protection. The Information Office became the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia , which Tejessy headed until the end of 1960. He was an opponent of all attempts at centralization in the German secret service , which he saw as a danger to the young democracy. He was thus at a distance from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . He also saw the danger from the right no less than that from the left, which contradicted the mentality at the federal level.
literature
- Wolfgang Buschfort : Fritz Tejessy (1895–1964). Protection of the constitution out of conviction. In: Armin Wagner , Dieter Krüger (ed.): Conspiracy as a profession: German intelligence chiefs in the Cold War. Ch. Links, Berlin 2003, pp. 111-131.
- Wolfgang Buschfort: Fritz Tejessy. In: The conspirators. German intelligence chiefs in the Cold War. Berolina, Berlin 2013.
- Protection of the Constitution: Who has the black lists. In: Der Spiegel . March 9, 1950.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tejessy, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian journalist and head of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1964 |
| Place of death | Bonn |