Max Fechner

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Max Fechner (* 27 July 1892 Berlin; † 13 September 1973 Schöneiche ), Minister of Justice of the DDR.

Fechner was trained tool maker. He joined 1910 SPD, was 1917-1922 member of the USPD, and then returned to the SPD. He was 1921-1925 Bezirksverordneter the Berlin Neukölln district and 1924-1933 member of the Prussian parliament. He worked in the National Executive of the SPD and was responsible editor of the magazinemunicipal "The community.

Fechner was in the resistance group to Franz artists actively and 1933 - 1934 (Oranienburg), 1944-1945 in prison

After the war Fechner member of the party's executive committee and central committee of the SED. Between 1946-1948, he burgomasters of East Berlin, 1949 Member of the German People's Council and to 1950 Volkskammer.

1948 Fechner after successor of Eugen Schiffer president of the German Central Administration of Justice, 1949-1951 president of the Association of Democratic Lawyers and was from October 1949 to July 1953 Minister of Justice .

Because he is in an interview with theNeues Deutschland on 30 June 1953 against a prosecution of striking workers of the 17 June had,Fechner as "enemy of the state and the party 'his office, excluded from the SED, and arrested eight years prison condemned. On 24 June 1956, he was released from prison, and two days later amnestied; in June 1958 has been his party membership reinstated.

Fechner received 1967 Patriotic Order of Merit and 1972 Karl Marx Order.