Herbert Frister

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Herbert Frister (born February 7, 1899 in Gera ; † 1979 ) was a German employee, fighter against the Kapp Putsch , local and state politician ( SPD / USPD / SED ).

Life

Frister came from a working-class family. His mother was a laundress , his father a weaver . He had to contribute to a living early on. After attending elementary school , he completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk . In 1913 he joined the Central Employee Association , became a member of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (ATSB), joined the free thinkers and became a member of the Volksbühne . In the last two years of the war he had to take part in the First World War as an army soldier . In 1919 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), and in 1920 he took part in the workers' struggle against the Kapp Putsch. Since 1922 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and took over functions at local and state level. From 1924 he was the SPD education secretary for Greater Thuringia . He was supposed to reorganize the SPD in East Thuringia in 1933 and remained a city ​​councilor in Gera until May . After that he looked for a living by founding a newspaper business. This also gave him the opportunity to create a network of resistant behavior for young East Thuringian social democrats. He was also the treasurer of an illegal relief fund . He was arrested in 1935 because of his collaboration with Artur Schöneburg and Fritz Roth , but the charges of high treason had to be dropped. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and from 1945 to 1947 was taken prisoner of war in Yugoslavia . Here he headed the anti-fascist educational work and was editor of the prisoner of war newspaper.

When Frister returned to Thuringia in 1947, he became secretary of the SED district executive in Gera, where he met former comrades from the illegal work of the 1930s. From 1947 to 1948 Herbert Frister was acting director of the Gera adult education center . From March 1948 he was head of department in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior in Weimar . His time as a prisoner of war in Yugoslavia was his undoing because he was dismissed from the government office and in 1950 was able to work at the state party school and only in lower functions for his party. Herbert Frister stuck to his political convictions. He stayed in correspondence with the Social Democrat Hermann Brill until his death .

Fonts

Articles in magazines

  • Worker education magazines. In: The Workers Librarian, 1926, Issue 11/12, p. 216
  • Sport and unions. A reply from Herbert Frister. In: Trade Union Archives, Volume 6 1927, pp. 220–225
  • Means and ways of training for the unemployed. In: Socialist Education, monthly of the Reich Committee for Socialist Educational Work, 1931, pp. 263–267
  • The battle at Zickra. Remembering the suppression of the Kapp Putsch in East Thuringia. Journal of Military History No. 3 (1970): pp. 342–343.
  • The democratic re-education of German prisoners of war in Yugoslavia. In: Military History, No. 3 (1974): pp. 295–305

Unpublished manuscripts

  • History of the illegal proletarian grouping of left social democrats in East Thuringia 1933 to 1945. In the estate.
  • The Kapp Putsch in East Thuringia, March 1920. Manuscript, 1969

estate

Elaborations and collections of material on the Kapp Putsch in 1920 and on the illegal struggle of the left social democrats 1933–1945 in East Thuringia; Diaries, documents and materials from the time of his captivity in Yugoslavia are in the SAPMO Federal Archives.

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. 548

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Kühnrich, Franz-Karl Wärme: Germans with Tito's partisans 1941-1945. GNN Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-929994-83-6 , p. 232
  2. ↑ http://www.gera-chronik.de/www/gerahistorie/chronik/index.htm?suche1=Herbert+Frister¶m=&suche2=&max=50&abj=0&index=0#unten Accessed May 21, 2011
  3. ^ The Kapp Putsch in East Thuringia, March 1920. Gera, 1969, manuscript in the Thuringia State Archives
  4. ↑ http://www.nachlassdatenbank.de/viewresult.php?sid=78011a34dd785c96084a Query May 21, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Frister, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German state politician (SPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH 1979