Herbert Fiering

Herbert Fiering (born September 24, 1912 in Magdeburg , † December 6, 2000 in Lauf an der Pegnitz ) was a German politician ( LDP ).

Life

Repkowstrasse 9, photo 2011

Fiering was born in the Salbke district of Magdeburg . His family ran agriculture and a trucking business at Repkowstraße 9 . After attending elementary school, he completed a reform high school up to the upper secondary level . In 1929 he began a commercial apprenticeship in the international transport industry. Later he ran a freelance company in Stettin .

In 1939 Fiering was called up for military service, until 1945 he was a soldier in World War II and was taken prisoner of war. On October 1, 1945, he joined the LDP and was from January 1, 1946 managing director of the Merseburg district association of the party. On July 1, 1946, he was then general manager and then general secretary of the Saxony-Anhalt regional association of the LDP. On November 30, 1946, he took over the function of 2nd chairman of the provincial board.

Fiering ran for election to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in 1946 in constituency 8 (Halle, Merseburg, Naumburg , Zeitz and Weissenfels ). During this time he lived in the street Landrain 155 in Halle (Saale) . An incident occurred in Halle during the election campaign. A tram on line 7 was marked For annexation to the Soviet Union - choose SED . The lettering with the demand not made by the SED was intended to discredit the SED because of its proximity to the Soviet occupying power. On the part of the SED, 20 members of the LDP were held responsible for the process, who were then arrested. Eleven of those arrested were tried on December 19, 1946. Fiering was also convicted. In October 1946, however, Fiering had been elected to the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt for the LDP . He was released from prison on the grounds that Fiering enjoyed immunity through election . It was later suggested that his dismissal had something to do with his good relations with the Soviet military administration .

The state election had produced the unusual result for East Germany, that the SED narrowly missed an absolute majority. The LDP provided the Prime Minister with Erhard Hubener . In the state parliament, Fiering's policy, despite his prominent position in the state LDP, was strongly adapted to the SED. Within the LDP, he advocated the search for compromises with both the Soviet occupying power and the SED. He abstained in four important votes in the state parliament, which in view of the tight majority, led the SED to achieve a majority. A vote on the expropriation of all movie theaters was particularly serious. Although the LDP spoke out against this project, the state parliament passed a resolution by abstaining from Fiering. On the day of the decision, Fierung was given a managerial role in the coal and briquette administration (Kobri). Members of the SED parliamentary group then referred to him as "Director Herbert Fiering". The ousting of Erich Damerow (LDP) from the office of Minister of Agriculture was due to Fiering's abstention. It has been suggested that Fiering had contacts with the Soviet secret service.

There were also allegations of financial machinations. The LDP state executive investigated against him because he is said to have placed an LDP bookcase and desk in his own apartment and private furniture in exchange for the LDP executive office. Furthermore, he should have bought several radios in the name of the regional association, the whereabouts of which remained unclear, but which he had paid for himself. His biggest acquisition for the LDP was a Mercedes. He declared himself the owner of the car paid for by the LDP and continued to use it later. In November 1948, the regional association planned to bring an action for surrender, but this was not possible due to Fiering's immunity as a member of the state parliament. Even later, the claims were not enforced.

On May 26, 1948, the newspaper Die Freiheit announced that he was leaving the party. He had already been dismissed as state secretary on April 20, 1948 and was to be brought before an LDP party court. Fiering told the newspaper that he had not been dismissed, but that he had already announced at the state party conference that he would resign for health reasons. On May 27, 1948, his resignation was announced on May 20, 1948.

After confirmation by the LDP party leadership in Berlin, Fiering was expelled from the LDP parliamentary group on December 7, 1948. Fiering was initially the only non-attached member of the state parliament. In February 1950 he became a member of the parliamentary group of the center . In June 1950 he fled to Nuremberg . He officially resigned from his state parliament mandate on August 15, 1950.

He was also a member of the First German People's Council, formed in the Soviet zone of occupation in 1948 .

literature

• Christina Trittel, The members of the first state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt 1946-1950 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-444-7 , page 139 ff.
• Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. Mitteldeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Halle (Saale) 1947, p. 262.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fiering himself stated Salbke (Jerichow I district) as the place of birth in his résumé . Salbke was incorporated into Magdeburg as early as 1910. Since 1909, only parts of the Salbke estate, but especially the areas of the uninhabited Kreuzhorst, have belonged to the Jerichow I district. The rest of the Salbke belonged to the Wanzleben district until it was incorporated.
2. ^ Note in the birth entry in the 1912 birth register of the Magdeburg registry office
3. ↑ Christina Trittel, The Members of the First State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt 1946-1950 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-444-7 , page 140
4. ↑ Christina Trittel, The Members of the First State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt 1946-1950 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-444-7 , page 140
5. ↑ Achim Baatzsch: The licensing history of the Liberal-Democratic newspaper in Halle on the Saale. Grin-Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-638-70640-0 , p. 131.
6. ↑ Christina Trittel: The parliamentary groups in Saxony-Anhalt from 1946 to 1950. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag / GWV Fachverlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8350-6037-6 , p. 211.
7. ↑ Christina Trittel, The Members of the First State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt 1946-1950 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-444-7 , page 140
8. ↑ Christina Trittel, The Members of the First State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt 1946-1950 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-444-7 , page 141
9. ↑ Achim Baatzsch: The licensing history of the Liberal-Democratic newspaper in Halle on the Saale. Grin-Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-638-70640-0 , p. 124.
10. ↑ Christina Trittel, The Members of the First State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt 1946-1950 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-444-7 , page 141