Georg Ludwig Fertsch

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Georg Ludwig Fertsch (born June 12, 1890 in Friedberg (Hesse) ; † October 31, 1948 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Frankfurt entrepreneur and local politician . After the Second World War he was one of the first Hessian state politicians. He was the first state chairman of the FDP Hessen .

education and profession

After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he studied economics at the Frankfurt Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences, and from 1912 to 1914 he was an authorized signatory in his father's wholesale company, Fertsch & Co. in Friedberg. After serving in the First World War , he became managing director of W. Fertsch & Co. in 1919. In 1920 he passed the commercial diploma examination at the University of Frankfurt and received his doctorate in Hamburg in 1922 .

In 1923 Georg Ludwig Fertsch became managing director, in 1929 a partner in the chemical cleaning works Gebr. Röver in Frankfurt-Niederrad , at times Germany's largest chemical cleaning company. From 1925 to 1933 he was a labor judge in Frankfurt am Main.

Fertsch had been a member since 1920 and later a master of the chair of the Masonic Lodge Zur Einigkeit in Frankfurt am Main. He was married and had three sons (Dieter, Wolfgang and Günther). Dieter Fertsch-Röver was also a member of the Hessian state parliament of the FDP in the 11th electoral term.

resistance

As a liberal, Georg Ludwig Fertsch was critical of National Socialism. He was sentenced to fines and imprisonment for "sabotaging the orders of the labor front" and preferring Jewish workers, and he was stripped of the management of his company. In September 1944 he was forced to do digging work on the Western Front. While in custody, he suffered serious health problems.

politics

Georg Ludwig Fertsch was active as a local politician for the DVP in Frankfurt until 1933, and as a city councilor in 1932/33. In April 1945 the American military government appointed him deputy mayor for Frankfurt-Süd - at that time Frankfurt was de facto divided into two by the destruction of the Main bridges . He held the post until June 1945.

Fertsch became a member of the citizens' council and the main committee for denazification of the economy. He organized liberal-minded people from former supporters of the DVP and DDP . The Frankfurt district association of the future FDP was founded in early September 1945 as the “Liberal Democratic Party” and appointed Fertsch as its chairman. On September 28, 1945, the military government was approved.

On January 11, 1946, the FDP in Hesse was approved by the American military authorities under the name LDP "Liberal Democratic Party - State Association of Greater Hesse ".

This was preceded by a founding meeting on December 29, 1945 in Frankfurt am Main. At this meeting, representatives of the liberal district associations elected Georg Ludwig Fertsch as the first state chairman of the Hessian LDP (FDP).

On June 1, 1946, the state party congress decided to confirm him as party chairman, but to instruct August-Martin Euler to represent the state association externally. So disempowered, Georg Ludwig Fertsch resigned on June 21, 1946.

From February 26 to July 14, 1946 Georg Ludwig Fertsch was a member of the advisory state committee of the state of Greater Hesse.

Works

  • "The German colonial goods wholesaling, its organization and economics: important." Hamburg 1922 (dissertation)

literature

  • "... towards democracy" - The minutes of the Advisory State Committee of Greater Hesse in 1946 - A documentation, edited by Bernhard Parisius and Jutta Scholl-Seibert , Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-930221-05-5 , p. 34 -35
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 247 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 127.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documentation "Frankfurt is building" ( Memento from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Political resistance to the Nazi dictatorship in Hesse. Selected aspects
  3. ↑ 60 years of the FDP Hessen
personal data
SURNAME Fertsch, Georg Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedberg (Hesse)
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1948
Place of death Frankfurt am Main