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Josef Felder | |
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| Born | (1900-08-24)August 24, 1900 Augsburg,Kingdom of Bavaria,German Empire |
| Died | October 28, 2000(2000-10-28) (aged 100) |
Josef Felder (24 August 1900 – 28 October 2000) was a Germanpolitician. He was one of the 94Social Democratic members of theReichstag who voted against theNaziEnabling Act of 1933. He was also the last to die of the 94 who voted against this act.[1]
He participated in the famousThe Nazis: A Warning From History television series which was produced and broadcast by the BBC.[2] His sections during the series included his experience as a prisoner of Nazi's political opponents inDachau, where he himself was sent.
Josef Felder was born the eldest of eleven children of an Augsburg merchant family. His parents were Josef and Therese Felder. His mother died when he was seven years old. In the first years of life, the family often moved around southern Germany. After attending primary and secondary school (at the primay school,Julius Streicher was one of his teachers) he completed an apprenticeship in the graphic arts industry. He then worked first in his father’s textile factory and from 1924 to 1933 as an editor forthe Swabian People’s Newspaper. In 1933, Felder first fled toAustria and from there toCzechoslovakia after the Dollfuß revolt.[3] In 1934, he illegally returned to Germany and was arrested. Until 1936, Felder was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. There he met the later SPD chairmanKurt Schumacher. He then worked until 1946 in the textile and sporting goods company of Willy Bogner senior in Munich and Oberaudorf as an accountant. Bogner, who was well acquainted with Felder's brother, had "requested" him to get him out of the concentration camp.
In 1946 Felder became publisher and editor-in-chief ofThe Southeast Courier inBad Reichenhall. From 1955 to 1957 he was editor-in-chief of the SPD newspaperVorwärts.
On 28 October 2000, Felder died in Munich at the age of 100. He was married and had two children.
From, 1930 Felder was a city councillor in Augsburg, from 1932 he was a member of the Reichstag. Felder was one of the 94Social Democratic Party (SPD) members of the Reichstag to vote against the NaziEnabling Act of 1933. Of the vote on the Enabling Act, he said it was "A cynical impudence to even invite us" (German:Eine zynische Frechheit, uns überhaupt noch einzuladen), completing the trip to Berlin to vote. Following the passing of the Act, he and his SPD colleagues were outlawed and the SPD itself was banned.
Later in the Dachau concentration camp, a formerSturmabteilung member told him that they had probably been “missed” an opportunity to catch him in Augsburg. Felder was the last living member of the Reichstag from the time of the Weimar Republic. On the 4. In October 1990, he attended the first session of the reunified German Bundestag in theReichstag building in Berlin as a guest of honour.
Felder was elected as a member of theBundestag from 15 October 1957 to 19 October 1969.
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