Otto Fischbeck (28 August 1865 – 23 May 1939) was a German liberal politician, member of the Prussian and German parliament and Prussian Minister of trade and commerce from 1918 to 1921.
Otto Fischbeck | |
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 Otto Fischbeck about 1920 | |
| Member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) | |
| In office 7 January 1925 – 18 July 1930 | |
| Constituency | National list |
| (German Empire) | |
| In office 3 December 1903 – 9 November 1918 | |
| Constituency | Liegnitz 6 |
| Member of the German National Assembly | |
| In office 6 February 1919 – 21 May 1920 | |
| Constituency | Liegnitz 11 |
| Prussian Minister of Trade and Commerce | |
| In office 5 October 1918 – 1 November 1921 | |
| Monarch | Wilhelm II (until 1918) |
| Minister-President | Max von Baden Paul Hirsch Otto Braun Adam Stegerwald |
| Member of the Prussian House of Representatives | |
| In office 1921–1924 | |
| Constituency | Liegnitz-Goldberg-Haynau (Legnica-Złotoryja-Chojnów) |
| In office 1903–1913 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 August 1865 Güntershagen, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (Lubieszewo, Poland) |
| Died | 23 May 1939 (aged 73) Berlin, Nazi Germany |
| Political party | German Democratic Party |
| Other political affiliations | Progressive People's Party (1910–1918) |
Early life
editFischbeck was born in Güntershagen, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (Lubieszewo, Poland), he studied economics and administrative sciences at the Universities of Berlin and Greifswald.[1][2]
Career
editFrom 1890 to 1895 he worked as a counsel at the chamber of commerce in Bielefeld and from 1895 to 1901 at the Employers Liability Insurance Association for paper processing industries in Berlin. From 1893 to 1895 he served as a town councillor in Bielefeld, and in 1900 Fischbeck became town councillor in Berlin. On 1 April 1918 he became the chairman of the municipal association of Greater Berlin.[2]
From 1895 to 1903 and from 1907 to 1918 Fischbeck was a member of the German parliament and from 1903 to 1913 Member of the Prussian House of Representatives (Landtag).[2] On 5 October 1918 he became the Prussian Minister for Trade and Commerce, a position he held until 1 November 1921.[3]
Following World War I Fischbeck was a founding member of the Deutsche Demokratische Partei and was elected a member of the Weimar National Assembly (1919/20), he was again a member of the Prussian Landtag from 1921 to 1924 and was re-elected to the Reichstag in 1924 and 1928. He left the Reichstag in 1930.[2]
Personal life
editFischbeck died in Berlin in 1939.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Personendaten" (in German). GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
- ^ a b c d Kotowski, Georg. "Biography" (in German). Neue Deutsche Biographie.
- ^ "5. Oktober 1918: Max von Baden stellt neue Reichsregierung vor" (in German). Deutscher Bundestag.
- ^ "Wenn der Editor zweimal klingelt" (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 15 November 2010.