Kurt Fischer (politician, 1900)

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Kurt Fischer (born July 1, 1900 in Halle (Saale) , † June 22, 1950 in Bad Colberg ) was a German politician ( KPD , SED ).

Kurt Fischer

Life

The fisherman, who comes from a working-class family, attended elementary school in his hometown until 1915. From 1918 he was at the preparatory institute in Unruhstadt and then took up a teaching degree in Eisleben and Merseburg until 1921 .

Fischer had been a member of the Spartakusbund since 1917 and joined the KPD in 1919. Because of his involvement in the March fighting in Central Germany , Fischer fled to Soviet Russia after their suppression in 1921 and worked there as a German teacher. In 1923 he returned to Germany and was editor of various communist newspapers in Essen , Kassel and Halle as well as party secretary in Mecklenburg . In 1924 Fischer went back to the Soviet Union and joined the CPSU . He worked for the Communist International until 1928 , then studied until 1933 at the military academy "MW Frunze" in Moscow .

Until the outbreak of World War II , Fischer was a foreign spy for the Soviet military secret service GRU in China , temporarily as a military advisor to Mao Zedong , as well as in Japan and Europe. In 1934 Fischer was arrested in Vienna and was released after nine months in prison. Between 1939 and 1941 Fischer worked within the Red Army for the NKVD , then he taught at the Lenin University in Kazan . From 1943 Fischer was an agitator of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD) in Soviet prisoner-of-war camps and employee of the broadcaster Free Germany . He headed the department on war reporting. Since Anton Ackermann ran the station and both knew each other through working together, it can be assumed that Fischer therefore later became a member of the Ackermann group .

Immediately after the end of the Second World War , Fischer was sent to the Soviet occupation zone as an employee of Anton Ackermann in the KPD initiative group for Saxony , and in May 1945 he was appointed deputy to Dresden's Lord Mayor Rudolf Friedrich . He was appointed Minister of the Interior of Saxony in July 1945 and was Friedrichs' deputy as Minister-President of Saxony. The collaboration between the two was marked by constant conflict. Unconfirmed rumors put Fischer in connection with the premature death of the Saxon Prime Minister.

After the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946, Fischer belonged to the SED and its regional executive committee in Saxony and was a member of the Saxon state parliament . In 1946 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the TH Dresden . On July 12, 1948 he was appointed General Inspector as successor to Erich Reschke President of the German Administration of the Interior (DVdI) . When the GDR was founded , the Ministry of the Interior emerged from the DVdI, and on October 12, 1949, Fischer was appointed head of the German People's Police . From 1949 on he belonged to the Provisional People's Chamber of the GDR .

tomb

Fischer died during a spa stay in the sanatorium of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR in Bad Colberg. His urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Kurt Fischer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of honorary doctoral candidates at the TH / TU Dresden
  2. ↑ http://www.alt-berlin.info/seiten/str_k_6.htm
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 23, 1969, p. 4.
  4. ↑ http://bundesligainfo.de/Archiv/MDDR/1984M2.php table with the SG Dynamo Dr. Kurt Fischer Berlin at bundesligainfo.de
  5. ^ Street names from the GDR era in the Dresden City Wiki
  6. ↑ https://www.bstu.de/assets/bstu/de/Publikationen/bfi_37_labrenz-weiss_kd-nordhausen_auflage-02_barrierefrei.pdf , p. 101.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1950
Place of death Bad Colberg