Philipp Fries
Philipp Fries (born August 9, 1882 in Roggendorf , Schleiden district (Eifel), † December 7, 1950 in Cologne ) was a German politician of the SPD , USPD and KPD .
Life
Fries was the son of a railway official and learned the tailoring trade. After wandering around and three years of military service, he joined the SPD and the free trade unions in 1907 . According to other sources, this step already took place in 1900. In 1914 he was a member of the Upper Rhine SPD district executive and was party secretary in Cologne.
At the end of the First World War he went to the USPD and in 1920 to the KPD, to whose central revision commission he was elected at the end of 1920. After the internal party disputes within the KPD over the "offensive theory" and the March action in 1921, he resigned from the party in spring 1921 and joined the Communist Working Group (KAG) around Paul Levi , with which he returned to the USPD in 1922 and with its reunification with the MSPD, he was again a member of the SPD since September 1922.
From 1920 to 1924 he was a member of the Reichstag and was a member of the Prussian state parliament between 1924 and 1933 . He was also a city councilor for Cologne from 1919 to 1921 and from 1924 to 1933. Since 1922 the KPD repeatedly and violently attacked him as a "renegade".
After the National Socialists came to power, Fries was imprisoned in the Esterwegen and Lichtenburg concentration camps from June to December 1933 . In connection with the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was again briefly imprisoned as part of the grating action . Towards the end of the war, Fries went into hiding for fear of another arrest.
After the war he helped rebuild the SPD in Cologne, became chairman of the Cologne sub-district and a member of the board of directors of the Middle Rhine district. In 1946/47 he was a member of the appointed state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia before he had to retire from politics in 1947 for health reasons.
literature
- Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century . Marburg 2000. p. 104.
- Fries, Philipp . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Philipp Fries in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Philipp Fries at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fries, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politicians (SPD, USPD, KPD), MdR, MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roggendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1950 |
| Place of death | Cologne |