Josef Felder

Josef Felder ( born August 24, 1900 in Augsburg, † 28 October 2000 in Munich) was a German resistance fighter, journalist and politician (SPD).

Life and career

Josef Felder was the eldest of eleven children of a merchant from Augsburg family. His parents were Joseph and Therese fields. His mother died when he was seven years old. In the first years of life, the family frequently moved to southern Germany. After attending elementary and junior high school, he was trained in graphic design. Subsequently, he worked in the textile mill his father and from 1924 to 1933 as an editor for the Swabian People's Daily. 1933 Fields initially fled to Austria and from there to the Dollfuss revolt continue to Czechoslovakia. In 1934, he returned illegally to Germany and was arrested. By 1936 Fields was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp. He then worked until 1946 in the textile and sporting goods company by Willy Bogner Senior in Munich and Oberau village as an accountant. Bogner, who was well acquainted with Felder's brother, had him " requested " to get him out from the camp.

1946 Fields publisher and editor in chief of Southeast courier in Bad Reichenhall. From 1955 to 1957 he was editor in chief of the SPD newspaper forward.

On 28 October 2000 Josef Felder died 100 years old in Munich. He was married and had two children.

Party

In July 1919, Fields founding member of the local chapter of the USPD in Mindelheim. When the local association but in 1920 opted for a connection to the Communist International, he joined the SPD. In 1985 he was elected honorary chairman of the Bavarian SPD.

Member of Parliament

From 1930 Fields City Council was in Augsburg, from 1932 deputy in the Reichstag. Fields was one of the 94 Socialist members of the Reichstag who voted in 1933 against the Enabling Act of the National Socialists. Josef Felder was the last living member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic.

Fields was from 15 October 1957 until October 19, 1969 Member of the SPD in the Bundestag.

Honors

On 31 July 1990 Fields received the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of the Federal Republic of Germany. Previously, he was already with the Bavarian Order of Merit, was the " Lindauer Sozialistenhut " and awarded the 1983 Gustav- Heinemann- Citizenship Award.

1989 Fields was honored with the dignity of an Academic honorary citizen of the University of Augsburg. In 1990 he received the Gold Medal of the City of Munich citizens. In 1995, the SPD Association of Bavaria " Joseph Fields Prize for public service and civic courage " donated.

With him died the last Democratic deputy of the Reichstag, for this reason, honored the Federal Republic of Germany Josef Felder after his death on 7 November 2000 with a state. 2002 was published in the likeness of Felder's Deutsche Post, a special stamp.

On October 1, 2009 the city of Munich decided naming the northern bypass Pasing ( NUP ) after him.

Publications

• Records and memories. In: Members of the German Bundestag. Records and memories. Volume 1, Boppard am Rhein 1982, pages 9 to 78
• Why I said no. Memories of a long life in politics. Pendo Verlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3,858,423,920th