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
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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 | Liegnitz6 |
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 | (1865-08-28)28 August 1865 Güntershagen, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (Lubieszewo, Poland) |
Died | 23 May 1939(1939-05-23) (aged 73) Berlin, Nazi Germany |
Political party | German Democratic Party |
Other political affiliations | Progressive People's Party (1910–1918) |
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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]
From 1890 to 1895 he worked as a counsel at the chamber of commerceinBielefeld 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]
Fischbeck died in Berlin in 1939.[4]