Georg Fischer (politician, 1906)

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Georg Fischer (born August 17, 1906 in Unterrohrbach , Eggenfelden district , Lower Bavaria; † December 4, 1980 in Munich ) was a German politician ( KPD / UAPD / SPD ) and Bavarian State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs .

Life

Fischer was the son of a shoemaker and grew up in very poor circumstances. He attended elementary school in Ingolstadt and then completed an apprenticeship as a book printer . In 1923 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany in Ingolstadt , and a short time later the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

He was politically and unionized in the Ruhr area . In 1933 he was temporarily arrested in Wuppertal . He then worked as an insurance agent and was active in the resistance against National Socialism . In 1939 he was drafted into military service. In September 1944 he joined an Italian resistance group. He later became an American prisoner of war , from which he was released on June 11, 1945.

In 1945 he played a key role in the rebuilding of the KPD in Ingolstadt and Bavaria. In July 1945 he was appointed head of the Ingolstadt employment office. From January 7, 1946 until his discharge on June 8, 1946, he was State Secretary for Economic Affairs in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner . The American military government initially ordered the Communists to be included in the state government . On June 15, 1946, Fischer was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for illegally crossing the American-Soviet zone border

From February 1946 to April 1947 Fischer acted as state chairman of the KPD in Bavaria , in 1947 he was KPD state secretary for parliamentary and local politics. In September 1949 Fischer resigned from the KPD after accusations of being a supporter of Titoism .

In 1950 he was one of the co-preparers and founders of the short-lived Independent Workers' Party of Germany (UAPD) and became a member of its secretariat. He explained the necessity of founding a party to Der Spiegel : “While the KPD leadership is losing more influence and more worker positions due to its unconditional commitment to Soviet foreign policy and its measures, the SPD has assumed the role of doctor that it assumed after the First World War continued with success at the bedside of capitalism. It will be clear to every Marxist that the SPD owes its relative strength to the lack of a working class party. ”After the UAPD was dissolved, Fischer became a member of the SPD in October 1952. From 1954 to 1962 he was deputy chairman of the SPD sub-district in Munich. From 1960 to 1972 he was a member of the Munich City Council.

From 1960 to 1973 he was also a member of the board of directors and the board of trustees of the Munich Adult Education Center .

Fonts

  • From the upright walk of a socialist. A party worker tells. JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0035-3 .

literature

  • Peter Boris: Those who broke up: key words on the life and work of 461 ex-communists and dissidents. Markus, Cologne 1983, p. 82.
  • Hildegard Kronawitter: Economic Concepts and Economic Policy of the Social Democrats in Bavaria 1945-1949. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-22020-0 , p. 208.
  • Hans-Holger Paul, Archive of Social Democracy Bonn: Inventory of the legacies of the German labor movement: for the ten West German states and West Berlin. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-11104-5 , pp. 148-151.
  • Fischer, Georg . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 307 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Web links

  • Profile on the website of the House of Bavarian History.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Communist Party of Germany (KPD), 1919-1933 / 1945-1956 . Historical lexicon of Bavaria. July 11, 2007. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ Werner Müller: The KPD and the "unity of the working class". Campus, Frankfurt / Main / New York 1979, p. 250.
  3. ^ Karl-Ulrich Gelberg: The Hoegner Cabinet: September 28, 1945 to December 21, 1946. Volume 1. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, SL
  4. ↑ Titoists. Self-preservation . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1951, pp. 10-12 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Schorsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, UAPD, SPD) and Bavarian State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterrohrbach , Eggenfelden District , Lower Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1980
Place of death Munich