Felix Fechenbach

Felix Fechenbach (January 28, 1894 - August 7, 1933) was a German journalist, poet and political activist, who was murdered by the Nazis.

He was born in Mergentheim as the son af a baker and worked in a shoe store.cite book
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pages = p. 195] He took vocational education in Würzburg until 1910. In 1911 he worked in Frankfurt but got fired because of a strike he led against unpaid work. From 1912 until 1914 he was a party secretary of the SPD in Munich, later becoming state secretary (1918-1919). During World War I he was a pacifist and served as secretary for Kurt Eisner, the prime minister, shortly after the war. He was jailed in 1922 for his role in the Munster Raterepublik until he was pardoned in 1924. He thereafter travelled to Berlin and worked for "Kinderfreunde" (Friends of Children) and criticised the SPD in his children's stories while still a member of the party.

In 1929, he became a editor of the "Detmold Parteiblatt". On March 11, 1933 he was jailed by the new Nazi governmentfor his anti-fascist activities, and was shot on August 7 by the SS in a forest between Detmold and Warburg while being transported to the Dachau concentration camp. The Felix-Fechenbach-Gesamtschule Leopoldshöhe was named after him. [ [http://www.ffgleo.de/ Felix-Fechenbach-Gesamtschule Leopoldshöhe] ]

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