Wilhelm Fitzner (lawyer)

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Wilhelm Fitzner (born July 20, 1891 in Berlin ; † January 16, 1950 there ) was a German business and administrative lawyer .

Life

Wilhelm Fitzner grew up in Berlin. From 1909 to 1913 he attended the teachers' college. From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier ( lieutenant ) in the First World War , he was wounded twice. In 1918/19 he made up his Abitur, studied law , economics and philosophy from 1919 to 1923 and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1923 he became a member of the SPD and press officer in the Provisional Reich Economic Council . From 1926 he was district administrator in the Mansfelder Seekreis in Eisleben . In 1928 he became government director in Frankfurt (Oder) , 1929 government vice-president in Gumbinnen / East Prussia and 1930 regional president in the Frankfurt (Oder) administrative district . In the course of the deposition of the Prussian state government Braun-Severing by the so-called " Preussenschlag " he was dismissed from one day to the next by the Papen government on July 20, 1932 . He personally refused to join the NSDAP to Hitler with the offer to become Oberpräsident / Gauleiter if the NSDAP won the election.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis he was 1933/34 in custody in the prison Berlin-Moabit . From 1934 to 1945 he worked as a legal and tax advisor in Berlin-Moabit and did illegal political work. Fitzner was arrested by the Gestapo in 1935 for preparation for high treason and spent four months in the Columbia-Haus concentration camp in Berlin-Tempelhof and six months in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He was released at the end of 1935. He was banned from his profession, declared unworthy of defense and classified as "politically unreliable". He was not allowed to leave Berlin without government approval. His pension entitlements were denied. He survived with casual jobs in Berlin and also became a writer. In 1940 the book “Nicodemus. A life around Jesus of Nazareth ”.

After the end of the Second World War he worked from May to July 1945 as the representative of the governor of the province of Brandenburg for five districts. From August 1, 1945 to March 31, 1948 he acted as President of the German Central Administration of Transport in the Soviet Occupation Zone and from August 1945 to January 1946 at the same time as General Director of the main administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In February / March 1948 he was briefly a member of the German Economic Commission (DWK). When the SPD and KPD merged to form the SED in April 1946, he became a member of the SED , from which he was ousted from office in 1948. He turned down the offer to become Director General of DEFA . At the end of 1949 he fled to West Berlin , where he was accepted into the SPD. Fitzner died unexpectedly at the age of 59 before his inaugural lecture at the University of Political Science, the cause of death remained unclear.

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  1. ↑ Reinhold Zilch , Bärbel Holtz (edit.): The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Olms-Weidmann , Hildesheim 2003, p. 560 ( Online ; PDF 2.2 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Fitzner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1950
Place of death Berlin