Otto Fischbeck Explained

Otto Fischbeck
Birth Date:28 August 1865
Birth Place:Güntershagen, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (Lubieszewo, Poland)
Death Place:Berlin, Nazi Germany
Office1:Member of the Reichstag
(Weimar Republic)
Term Start1:7 January 1925
Term End1:18 July 1930
Constituency1:National list
Office2:(German Empire)
Term Start2:3 December 1903
Term End2:9 November 1918
Constituency2:Liegnitz 6
Office3:Member of the German National Assembly
Term Start3:6 February 1919
Term End3:21 May 1920
Constituency3:Liegnitz 11
Office4:Prussian Minister of Trade and Commerce
Term Start4:5 October 1918
Term End4:1 November 1921
Monarch4:Wilhelm II (until 1918)
1Namedata4:Max von Baden
Paul Hirsch
Otto Braun
Adam Stegerwald
Office5:Member of the Prussian House of Representatives
Term Start5:1921
Term End5:1924
Constituency5:Liegnitz-Goldberg-Haynau (Legnica-Złotoryja-Chojnów)
Term Start6:1903
Term End6:1913
Otherparty:Progressive People's Party (1910–1918)

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.

Early life

Fischbeck 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

From 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

Fischbeck died in Berlin in 1939.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Personendaten . GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences . de.
  2. Web site: Biography . Georg. Kotowski. Neue Deutsche Biographie. de.
  3. Web site: 5. Oktober 1918: Max von Baden stellt neue Reichsregierung vor. . de.
  4. News: Wenn der Editor zweimal klingelt. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 15 November 2010. de.