Paul Fischer (politician)

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Paul Fischer (born October 17, 1894 in Hohenölsen , † November 18, 1979 in Greiz ) was a German sailor , fighter against the Kapp Putsch , local and state politicians ( Spartakusbund / USPD / KPD / KPO ) and publisher .

Life

Fischer comes from a working-class family. After attending primary school, he first became a legal assistant in Weida . Then he was trained as a sailor by the " German School Ship Association " in Elsfleth near Bremen , because he wanted to embark on an officer career. In 1910 he was hired as an ordinary seaman in the merchant navy . He joined the seaman's union. In 1911 he graduated from a helmsman school in New York and then sailed on Belgian and Norwegian ships. Since 1914 he belonged to the Imperial Navy and took part in the sailors' uprising in Kiel in 1917 , which is why he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison, of which he only served one year in Siegburg and Bremerhaven . He was liberated by the November Revolution of 1918, joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and then joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After the revolution he worked for the " Reussische Volkszeitung " in Greiz for a few months . In 1920 he participated in the defense of the Kapp Putsch as one of the workers' leaders. In 1920 he became the head of the KPD sub-district Greiz and in 1923 a member of the KPD district leadership of Thuringia. With her mandate he became a member of the state parliament in 1924. In 1928 he was expelled from the KPD and went over to the Communist Party Opposition (KPO), for which he remained in the state parliament until 1930. Times of unemployment followed, during which he lived as a weaver , owner of a chicken farm and as a sewing machine representative. In 1940 he was drafted into the Navy as a senior boatman in Aarhus / Denmark and was taken prisoner by the British at the end of the war .

After the liberation from National Socialism he returned to Greiz and worked again as a representative. In 1946 he became a co-owner of Gruber Verlag GmbH and founded his own picture book publishing house in 1949, which was taken over by Thuringian Volksverlag in 1952 . Then he worked for the Kulturbund der DDR as a representative for commercial advertising. When the MfS learned that Fischer was in contact with the former KPO man Rupprecht Wagner , who was working from the West as the main agent of the combat group against inhumanity for Thuringia, Fischer was arrested in January 1954 as Wagner's agent and sentenced to 15 years in prison. which he served in Torgau and Brandenburg . His daughter Traute was also imprisoned for years on similar charges. After his early release in 1962, Fischer worked as a porter in Sachswitz . Because he traveled several times to the West as a pensioner and had contacts with the “ Control Center for Refugees ”, he was still monitored by the MfS.

literature

  • Steffen Kachel: A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 547
  • Theodor Bergmann : Against the current. The history of the KPD (opposition) . Hamburg 2001, p. 438, ISBN 3-87975-836-0
  • Fischer, Paul . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.baseportal.de/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/jarmerdhm/main&localparams=1&db=main&cmd=list&range=21,7&cmd=all&Id=18 Query 20 May 2011
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local and state politicians (SPD, USPD, KPD, KPO), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenölsen
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1979
Place of death Greiz