Theodor Fritsch (bookseller)

Theodor Frohmund Herbert Fritsch (born June 11, 1895 in Leipzig ; † December 31, 1946 in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg ) was a German bookseller and National Socialist publisher .

Life

Fritsch, son of the anti-Semitic publisher Theodor Fritsch , worked in mechanical engineering for two years after completing secondary school. He then attended the trade school in Chemnitz . During the First World War he served in the field artillery and rose to lieutenant in the reserve . As an award, he received the Knight's Cross II. Class of the Albrecht Order with Swords. After the war, Fritsch worked in the book trade: from 1920 to 1928 he worked as an authorized signatory in the Leipzig Hammer Verlag, which his father had founded . Then he goes into business for himself. As early as 1927 he joined the NSDAP , for which he worked for several years in Leipzig as a local group leader . In 1928 he also became a member of the SA . In March 1930 he was seriously wounded in a political clash.

After his father died in 1933, he took over the management of the publishing house. In the same year Fritsch became a member of the action committee of the German Booksellers Association , of which he had been a member of the board since 1934.

In September 1933, the Börsenverein, which had been organized under private law until then, was incorporated into the Reichsschrifttumskammer as a corporation under public law. In this connection Joseph Goebbels appointed him to the presidential council of the Reichsschrifttumskammer.

In 1938 Fritsch moved his publishing house from Leipzig to Berlin. During the Second World War , the publishing house was regarded as an important war company that worked closely with the Reich Propaganda Ministry.

After the end of the Second World War, Fritsch was interned by the Soviet occupying forces and died on December 31, 1946 in the Mühlberg special camp .

literature

Barbara Hillen: Fritsch, Theodor Frohmund Herbert . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 166.

personal data
SURNAME	Fritsch, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fritsch, Theodor Frohmund Herbert; Fritsch, Theodor Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German National Socialist publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	December 31, 1946
Place of death	Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg

[Klee166-1] Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 166.