Felix Fechenbach
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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.[1] 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.[1] From 1912 until 1914 he was a party secretary of the SPD in Munich, later becoming state secretary (1918-1919).[1] During World War I he was a pacifist and served as secretary for Kurt Eisner, the prime minister, shortly after the war.[1]
He was jailed in 1922 for his role in the Munster Raterepublik until he was pardoned in 1924.[1] 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.[1]
In 1929, he became a editor of the Detmold Parteiblatt.[1] 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.[1] The Felix-Fechenbach-Gesamtschule Leopoldshöhe was named after him.[2]
