Otto Fritsch (politician)

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Otto Fritsch (born August 7, 1870 in Eckartsberga , † after 1943) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Otto Fritsch was born out of wedlock. After attending primary school, he completed an apprenticeship in embroidery and then worked in the textile industry. He joined the SPD and worked from 1891 to 1904 as a party and trade union functionary in Görlitz . From November 1904 to 1933 he was employed as district manager for the province of Silesia at the German Textile Workers' Association. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Sorau Research Institute and since 1927 partner of the Liegnitzer Volkszeitung .

Fritsch was a city councilor in Liegnitz from 1911 to 1928 and a member of several local committees there. In the 1912 Reichstag election , he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Reichstag . From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian state assembly and from 1921 to 1932, as a representative of constituency 8 (Liegnitz), a member of the Prussian state parliament .

After the National Socialists came to power , Fritsch emigrated to Czechoslovakia in May 1933 . He was excluded from the exile SPD in 1936, lived temporarily in Vienna and stayed in Haindorf from 1941 . His trail runs here in 1943.

literature

  • Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928, p. 519.

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SURNAME Fritsch, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckartsberga
DATE OF DEATH after 1943