Fritz Voigt (politician)

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Friedrich Voigt (born November 18, 1882 in Trebra , † March 1, 1945 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German trade unionist, social democratic politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

biography

Fritz Voigt was a trained construction worker. From 1902 to 1905 he had to do his military service, in 1908 he began to work as the trade union secretary of the German construction workers' association. From August 1914 he took part in the First World War. In November 1918 he was elected chairman of the Central Soldiers' Council for Silesia and was a delegate to the 1st Reichsrätekongress in Berlin. On this he was elected to the Central Council of the German Socialist Republic . As a member of the SPD , Voigt was a member of the German National Assembly in Weimar for constituency 9 in Breslau in 1919 and 1920 . He then took over the offices of State and Reich Commissioner for Silesia and Police President in Wroclaw. In 1920 he resigned and until 1923 organized the establishment of the Silesian construction works association.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was arrested in March 1933 and in the concentration camps by the beginning of 1934 Wroclaw Dürrgoy , Esterwegen and Lichtenburg detained. For the next ten years he was the office manager of a housing association. Fritz Voigt had contact with Jakob Kaiser and Wilhelm Leuschner in Berlin from 1940 and conspired with Franz Leuninger and Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg in Breslau .

After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested two days later in the " Action Grid " and was taken to the Lehrter Strasse prison in Berlin . On February 26, 1945 he was sentenced to death by the People's Court together with Franz Leuninger and Oswald Wiersich and hanged on March 1 in Berlin-Plötzensee prison .

Commemoration

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

In Berlin since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Voigt near the Reichstag .

literature

  • Fritz Voigt . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume 1: Deceased Personalities. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH, Hanover 1960, p. 318.
  • Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Marburg 2000, ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , p. 334 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mdz12.bib-bvb.de: Handbook of the German constituent assembly
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voigt, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist, social democratic politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Trebra
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1945
Place of death Berlin - Plötzensee