Richard Fischer (politician, 1855)

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Richard Fischer

Richard Fischer (born April 3, 1855 in Kaufbeuren , † September 21, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

Memorial plaque on Fischer's birthplace in Kaufbeuren. The first memorial plaque there was removed by the National Socialists in 1933. The current memorial plaque was put up by the local SPD in the 150th year of his birth.
Richard Fischer's grave

After attending school, Fischer completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter . He first worked in Switzerland and joined social democracy here in 1873. After his return to Germany he became editor of the newspaper Volkswille in Augsburg in 1876 , before he joined the Berlin Free Press in 1878 . In 1879 he served a seven-month sentence in Plötzensee prison for violating the press law and, after serving, was expelled from Berlin on the basis of the Socialist Act. He first went back to Switzerland, where he lived in Zurich until 1888 and worked as a butcher for the German-language newspaper Der Sozialdemokrat . After his expulsion from Switzerland, he continued to work in London for the illegal newspaper of the Social Democrats. After his return to Germany in 1890, he became the first full-time party secretary of the SPD and took over the management of the Vorwärts bookstore from 1893 to 1902 to 1922 . With the establishment of the publishing house "Vorwärts" bookstore and publishing house Paul Singer Co. Berlin in 1902 he was its managing director until 1922.

Fischer was buried in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin. His grave is now in the Socialist Memorial in this cemetery. His wife Juliane (1857–1941) was also dug here.

Political party

Fischer joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland in 1873 and switched to the SPD in 1876. From 1890 to 1913 and from 1917 to 1925 he took part in all party conventions. Since the beginning of the 20th century he was a member of the SPD party executive.

MP

From 1893 to 1918 Fischer was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Berlin 2. From 1910 to 1918 he held the office of secretary. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . He was then a member of the Reichstag until May 1924 and again from the December 1924 elections until his death .

Works

  • ([Richard Fischer], Julius Motteler ): Resolution of German Social Democrats in Zurich of January 10, 1885 against the steam subsidy . In: The Social Democrat , Zurich 1885, No. 4.
  • Social reform and worker friendliness. A settlement. Speech by Richard Fischer, member of the Reichstag, on the 3rd consultation of the Reich Insurance Code . Bookstore Vörwärts, Berlin 1911.
  • Karl Marx : The class struggles in France 1848-1850 . With an introduction by Friedrich Engels and forewords by August Bebel and Richard Fischer. JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1925.

literature

  • Eduard Bernstein : Richard Fischer in memory . In: Socialist monthly books . 32 (1926), No. 10, pp. 671-679. Digitized
  • Richard Fischer . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism. Volume I. Deceased personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, pp. 82-83.
  • Hans-Josef Steinberg : Revolution and Legality. An unpublished letter from Friedrich Engels to Richard Fischer . In: International Review of Social History . 12 (1967), pp. 177-189.
  • G. Adler: Fischer, Richard . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 130-131.
  • Dieter Fricke : The German labor movement 1869-1914. A manual about their organization and activity in the class struggle . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 277-278, 284, 549, 558-562, 573, 594.
  • History of the revolutionary Berlin labor movement. Volume 1. From the beginning to 1917 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1987. ISBN 3-320-00825-0 . 349-350, 352-353, 360, 368, 376-377, 387, 402, 407, 410, 414, 440, 454, 456, 474, 477, 524-525, 540, 551, 553, 562, 573, 585, 600, 611, 617, 627, 628.
  • W. Eberle: Richard Fischer (1855-1926), a social democratic member of the Reichstag in the German Empire . In: Kaufbeurer Geschichtsblätter 13 (1993/95), pp. 212-215.

Web links

Commons : Richard Fischer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Printed in: In the struggle and the revolutionary character of the proletarian party. Letters from German worker functionaries December 1884 to July 1885 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 335-337. For proof of authorship see: Eduard Bernstein's correspondence with Karl Kautsky (1895–1905) included . and ed. by Till Schelz-Brandenburg with collabor. by Susanne Thurn. Campus Verlag, Berlin 2003, p. 531.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaufbeuren
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1926
Place of death Berlin