Otto Fischbeck (politician)

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Otto Fischbeck

Otto Fischbeck (born August 28, 1865 in Güntershagen , Dramburg district , † May 23, 1939 in Töpchin ) was a German politician ( Progressive People's Party , DDP ).

Live and act

Fischbeck studied political and camera sciences in Greifswald and Berlin . During his studies and beyond, he became a member of various fraternities : Burschenschaft Neogermania Berlin (1885), Burschenschaft Arminia Greifswald (1887), Burschenschaft Arminia Kiel , Burschenschaft Hansea Hamburg (1935).

Fischbeck had been a member of the left-liberal Progressive People's Party since it was founded in 1910 , and became its chairman towards the end of the German Empire. In 1918 he negotiated for the progressive with Gustav Stresemann from the National Liberal Party about a merger and thus the amalgamation of all liberal forces in the German Reich. The negotiations failed because of the reservations of many progressives towards Gustav Stresemann. Fischbeck then participated in the founding of the DDP .

In 1895 Fischbek was elected to the Reichstag of the Empire for the first time in a by-election in the constituency of Lennep - Mettmann for the Free People's Party . He retained this mandate until he missed re-election in the 1903 Reichstag election. Instead, he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives, to which he was a member until 1913, in the same year. In 1907 he was re-elected to the Reichstag in the constituency of Liegnitz 6 ( Liegnitz - Goldberg - Haynau ) and was able to defend this mandate until the end of the Empire in 1918.

From 1910 to 1912 he was group leader of the Progressive People's Party . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . From 1921 to 1924 Fischbeck was also a member of the state parliament in Prussia . Finally he was again a member of the Reichstag from 1928 to 1930 .

With the formation of the Council of People's Representatives on November 14, 1918, Fischbeck was the only non-socialist to become a member of the new Prussian state government. He took over the office of Minister of Commerce. This office was also retained in the subsequent parliamentary-supported cabinets of the Social Democrats Paul Hirsch and Otto Braun and the central politician Adam Stegerwald . After Otto Braun's second election on November 7, 1921, he left the cabinet.

In 1924 Fischbeck received the honorary title of City Elder of Berlin .

Otto Fischbeck died in Berlin in 1939 at the age of 74. His grave is in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin-Kreuzberg (field 10 A).

See also

literature

  • Georg Kotowski:  Fischbeck, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 171 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 28-29.
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates for the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 68.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Kraussmüller and Ernst Anger: The history of the General German Burschenbund (ADB) 1883-1933 and the fate of the former ADB fraternities. Giessen 1989 (= Historia Academica , issue 28), p. 100.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Droste, Düsseldorf 1988 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , vol. 3), p. 130.
  3. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (ed.): Statistics of the Reichstag elections of 1907. Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1907 (= special publication on the quarterly issue of the statistics of the German Empire ), p. 82 - for 1912 see Imperial Statistical Office (ed.): Die Reichstag elections of 1912 . Booklet 2. Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1913 (= Statistics of the German Reich , vol. 250), p. 88.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, p. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Fischbeck, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Progressive People's Party, DDP), MdR and Prussian Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Güntershagen , Dramburg district
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1939
Place of death Potter