Ludwig Ficker

This article deals with the Bavarian KPD politician Ludwig Ficker ; for the writer and publisher, see: Ludwig von Ficker .

Ludwig Ficker (born October 14, 1904 in Munich ; † December 10, 1947 there ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life and work

From 1919 to 1928 Ficker was initially an unskilled worker in Reichenhall and then worked as a tram worker in Munich . In 1919 he joined the union.

After the National Socialists came to power, Ficker was dismissed from his job. He then worked illegally for the Munich communists and was briefly arrested for this in 1933. In the spring of 1934 he emigrated to Switzerland , stayed temporarily in France , the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia and during this time crossed the German border illegally several times. In 1942 he was arrested and interned in Basel . In 1944 he managed to escape and returned to Germany illegally. He then worked illegally in the resistance in Bavaria and organized cells of the communist resistance. He was also connected to the Bavarian freedom campaign .

Ficker worked as a party secretary from 1945. On December 10, 1947, he was found dead in his garage, poisoned by a gas leak. However, the cause of his death remained unclear.

politics

Ficker joined the KPD in 1929. After his time in exile and in the communist resistance after 1945, he played a leading role in the rebuilding of the party in Bavaria and was a member of the Munich Action Group SPD- KPD in 1945/46. In 1947 he was elected regional chairman of the Bavarian communists. He was removed from office as an alleged American agent as part of a purge . Ficker was a member of the Bavarian State Constitutional Assembly from July to November 1946 and a member of the Economic Council of the United Economic Area from June 1947 until his death . From October 22, 1945 to December 21, 1946, he was State Secretary in the State Ministry of the Interior in the government of the Free State of Bavaria led by Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner .

See also

• Cabinet Hoegner I

literature

• Ficker, Ludwig . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Ludwig Ficker in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History