Peter Fröhlich (Author)

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Peter Fröhlich (born July 11, 1901 in Cologne , † August 1, 1984 ) was a Cologne city ​​councilor and Cologne book author .

Career

Peter Fröhlich comes from a working- class family of ten from Cologne's Eigelstein district . In his youth, he earned his living as a newspaper seller, errand boy , construction laborers , rivets warmer and Maurer . At the age of 16 he joined the workers abstinence union , then he became a member of the building trade union and the socialist workers' youth . He joined the Communist Party at the age of 22 . In 1927 he decided to change and since then has been a member of the Social Democratic Party .

After receiving a two-year scholarship to attend the State Technical School for Business and Administration, he worked as a legal protection secretary for the German Federation of Trade Unions . In 1933 he was elected to the Cologne City Council as the last representative of the SPD before the National Socialists came to power , but was prevented from exercising his city council mandate by the National Socialists. In 1946 Peter Fröhlich and the later mayor Theo Burauen were the first SPD members to take on this position. He was a member of the culture committee there for over 20 years. He was a member of the city council until 1975.

author

After his retirement in 1966 he began to write down his memories of his life and his hometown Cologne in Kölsch . In 1970 his first book Kölle vör fuffzich Johre was published ; In 1971 a second volume of the same title followed. In 1972 Kölle noh '45 was published (with a foreword by Theo Burauen) and in 1974 Sulang dä Dom en Kölle steit . There was also a volume with poems Us dem Levve jejreffe . In the mid-1970s, he summarized his personal memories in the volume It was a long way - memories of an old man from Cologne in High German in order to make them accessible to readers outside the Cologne-speaking area.

Works

  • Kölle vör fuffzich Johre (Cologne 50 years ago), 1970 Greven Verlag ISBN 3-7743-0074-7
  • Kölle vör fuffzich Johre - second volume, 1971 Greven Verlag ISBN 3-7743-0080-1
  • Kölle noh '45 (Cologne after 1945), 1972 (Greven Verlag) ISBN 3-7743-0091-7
  • Sulang dä Dom en Kölle steit (As long as the cathedral is in Cologne), 1974 (Greven Verlag) ISBN 3-7743-0109-3
  • Us dem Levve jejreffe (taken from life)
  • It was a long way - memories of an old Cologne resident

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enno Stahl (Hrsg.): Kölner Autorlexikon 1750 - 2000. Vol. 2. 1901 - 2000 / based on the LiK archive of the Cologne City Library ... edit. by Enno Stahl. With photo by Brigitte Friedrich . tape 2: 1901-2000 . Emons, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89705-194-X , p. 106 .
  2. ↑ Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon . Greven-Verl, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 169 .
personal data
SURNAME Happy, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SPD) and dialect author
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1984
Place of death Cologne