Wilhelm Fischer (consumer cooperative)

Wilhelm Fischer (born May 17, 1885 in Flensburg , † June 26, 1970 in Hamburg ) was a German consumer cooperative, trade unionist and social democrat.

Wilhelm Fischer was born in Flensburg in 1885 and baptized as a Protestant. He attended elementary school from 1891 to 1900. Then he completed a commercial apprenticeship by 1904. He was employed as a clerk. Fischer was married.

Consumer cooperative

In 1906, Fischer began working in the Hamburg headquarters of the large-scale purchasing association of German consumer associations . Here he became head of department in 1912. In 1922 he was appointed full-time chairman of the board of the Westerland consumer cooperative . In 1923 he moved to the larger Unterweser consumer cooperative in Wesermünde, now Bremerhaven. Soon he received an offer from the consumer cooperative Leipzig-Plagwitz , where he was appointed to the board in 1925. From 1926 on the board of the Verband Sächsischer KG (until 1938), director of the supply ring, again VV of KG L from August 1946, chairman of the supervisory board of Sächsischer KGV. Arrest 18./19. Sept 1948; May '49 small criminal chamber regional court Saxony wg. Crimes according to directive 38 in connection with order 201, sentence: 1 year and 6 months in prison. Release from prison to Hamburg in May 1950. Until 1950–54 head of department in the GEG. Subsequently, he worked as a journalist at the ZdK.

politics

When the SPD was looking for experienced economic experts for the citizenship after the collapse of the German Empire, he became a member of the Hamburg citizenship from 1919 to 1924 .

Fonts

Wilhelm Fischer: 60 years versus 60 years of service to consumers. 1894-1954. Festschrift Hamburg 1954.

literature

• Mustafa Haikal : Good business. The history of the Leipzig consumer cooperative . Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3867300841
• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 512. Restructured and shortened online as a biography of Wilhelm Fischer . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Stefan Jaunich: Wilhelm Fischer (1885-1970). Chairman of the board of the Leipzig consumer cooperatives from 1925 to 1948, in: "Such vermin also exist in Leipzig". Edited by Michael Rudloff / Mike Schmeitzner. Frankfurt 1997, pp. 202-212.

Web links

• Do you believe the class enemy? in DER SPIEGEL of March 5, 1949