Fritz Wagner (politician, 1895)

Fritz Wagner (born February 12, 1895 in Salzungen , † March 21, 1962 in Bad Salzungen ) was a German Reichsbanner - functionary , party functionary ( SPD / SED ) and district administrator of the district of Meiningen and chairman of the council of the district of Bad Salzungen .

Life

After attending primary school, Wagner completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter. In 1911 he joined the German Metal Workers Association (DMV) and in 1917 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1915 to 1917 he took part in the First World War as an army soldier . In 1918 he became a member of a workers 'and soldiers' council in Hamburg . From 1920 he lived in Meiningen and worked as an administrator of the local people's house . From 1925 he was in the management of the Meininger newspaper "Werra-Wacht". In 1930 he became secretary of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Kassel . In 1931 he became a member of the Gaufführung of the Reich Banner in Thuringia .

After the seizure of power , Wagner was imprisoned in the Breitenau concentration camp from late June 1933 to mid-August 1933 for political reasons . From 1935 Wagner worked as the owner of a grocery store and acted illegally against the Nazi regime. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , took part in the Second World War and was taken prisoner by the Americans .

After the end of National Socialism, he returned to Meiningen and joined the re-established SPD. From January 1946 he was the full-time secretary of the SPD for southern Thuringia and, after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD, became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and served as a member of the state executive. From April 1947, he was the deputy SED state chairman, responsible for personnel policy . In 1948 he was transferred to the post of district administrator of the Meiningen district and forced to relinquish his place in the secretariat to the communist Willy Eberling . From 1951 he acted as the district administrator of the newly founded Bad Salzungen district . Wagner died as chairman of the Bad Salzungen district council in 1962.

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, p. 570.