Julius Fräßdorf

Julius Fräßdorf

Karl Julius Fräßdorf (born May 26, 1857 in Schlaben (today Neuzelle ), † March 26, 1932 in Dresden ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and union official. During the Weimar Republic he was President of the Saxon People's Chamber and the Saxon State Parliament .

Live and act

SPD member of the Reichstag from Saxony from 1903

After attending the Neuzelle elementary school, Fräßdorf learned the pottery trade from 1871, which his father had already practiced. During his wanderings he joined the General German Pottery Association in Lübeck in 1875 , and later became its secretary. He was repeatedly reprimanded for his commitment and given prison terms. From 1877 to 1880 he did his military service with the 2nd Saxon Jäger Battalion . Then he returned to his learned profession as a potter and stove fitter.

In 1882 he was one of the co-founders of the professional association of potters and professionals in Dresden and was elected its first chairman in November of that year. In the following year he joined the SPD, in which he was active as a functionary from 1890. In 1885 he took over the chairmanship of the Central Health and Death Fund of the Potters in Dresden. He headed the General Local Health Insurance Fund in Dresden from 1895 until his death. In 1902 he also took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the consumer association "Vorwärts" in Dresden and in 1903 that of the Main Association of German Local Health Insurance Funds and the Association of Saxon Local Health Insurance Funds.

In 1890 he was elected chairman and agitation leader in the SPD district association Dresden-Neustadt. In 1892 he ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag , but was elected to the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament in the constituency of Pirna in 1895 . The three-tier voting system introduced in 1896 prevented his re-election in 1901. From June 1903 to January 1907 he was a member of the German Reichstag. The introduction of plural suffrage enabled him to return to the Second Saxon Chamber in 1909. From 1911 to 1913 he took over the function of the first vice-president. During the November Revolution he received from the Saxon King Friedrich August III. together with his parliamentary group colleague Max Wilhelm August Heldt, he was appointed Royal Saxon Minister of State without portfolio , which, however, he only performed from November 1 to November 11, 1918. As a result, he was temporarily a leading member of the Dresden Workers 'and Soldiers' Council. From 1919 he took over the office of President of the Saxon People's Chamber and the Saxon State Parliament . He supported the formation of a Saxon government as a coalition of the majority Social Democrats (MSPD) and the liberal German Democratic Party (DDP), which he enforced together with Karl Sindermann and Georg Gradnauer against the resistance of his left party comrades around Ernst Castan and Alfred Fellisch . When in 1923 a minority government was formed under Erich Zeigner with tolerance by the KPD , he resigned from his party and withdrew from politics. In 1926 he joined the Old Social Democratic Party of Saxony (ASPS), which was newly founded as a spin-off from the SPD .

literature

• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 373.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 48 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952. Sächsischer Landtag, Dresden 2001, pp. 139f.
• Josef Matzerath: Fräßdorf, Karl Julius . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 447.

Web links

• Fräßdorf, Karl Julius in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Literature by and about Julius Fräßdorf in the Saxon Bibliography
• Biography of Julius Karl Fraessdorf . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matzerath names Neuzelle as the place of birth , Döscher / Schröder name Schlaben, Kreis Guben as such. The different information is based on the formation of today's district of Neuzelle from the village of Schlaben and the monastery territory of Kloster Neuzelle in the 1920s.