Reinhold Fritzsche

Reinhold Fritzsche (* 6. March 1851 in Dahme / Mark ; † 21st March 1929 in Offenburg ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life

Reinhold Fritzsche was born in 1851 as the son of a Protestant craftsman. He left his parents' house in the spring of 1871 to go on a hike and train as a piano maker. The stations of his wandering were Leipzig, Dresden, Zurich, Paris and Berlin. In Zurich he met the emigrated socialist and working-class poet Robert Seidel , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In Berlin, where he had been working in a piano factory since the fall of 1877 and politically in workers' education associations, he was under political surveillance due to the Socialist Law passed in October 1878 . Fritzsche was arrested for disseminating illegal social democratic writings and was supposed to be expelled, but first settled in Leipzig and then in Stuttgart. At the end of 1879 he settled in Offenburg as a freelance piano maker and married a local Catholic baker's daughter. In order not to endanger his professional existence, he initially behaved politically inconspicuous, but was still active in social democratic circles. After the repeal of the Socialist Law, he again appeared openly as a social democrat.

In 1903 Fritzsche was elected to the Offenburg city council as the second social democrat after Georg Monsch ; He kept this mandate until 1912. Fritzsche was a supporter of the local trade union and consumer association movement and bequeathed part of his fortune to the promotion of day nurseries and the construction of a city nursing home.

Seven years after his wife, Fritzsche died on March 21, 1929 in Offenburg.

literature

• Jörg Schadt (Ed.): How we found the way to socialism. Memories of Baden Social Democrats . Stuttgart. Kohlhammer, 1981. ISBN 3-17-007176-9 .