Background
Fleißner was born the son of a tanner in Hirschberg an der Saale as one of eight children.
Fleißner was born the son of a tanner in Hirschberg an der Saale as one of eight children.
He attended elementary school and was followed by a glazier apprenticeship.
In 1905, at 17 years old, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the trade union federation of glaziers. In 1909 he settled in Leipzig. He found work as a storekeeper in the co-op Zwenkau.
Later became the head of the stores in Eythra and Lobstädt.
In Lobstädt he founded the first local association Social Democratic Party of Germany. From 1916 to 1918 he was employed during the First World War on the Western Front as a driver in the artillery. Already in the spring of 1919 Richard Lipinski took him to the county party secretary.
Fleißner returned to the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1920 and became editor of the Leipziger Volkszeitung. From 1921 to 1923 he was a city councilor, and taught himself essentially a finance committee.
Fleißner was 1922 Chairman of the District Board of Leipzig Social Democratic Party of Germany. In March / April 1923 Fleißner was appointed by the Prime Minister Erich Zeigner of Police in Leipzig.
This office was held until 1933. After the takeover by the Nazis lost Fleißner his office in March 1933. Unmittbar after his release, he was on 4 April to 20 Taken into protective custody in May 1933.
After that he was unemployed for several months before he took a job at an insurance company in 1934.
In 1935 he became attached to the by Stanislaw Trabalski led, illegal District Board of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. After the failed assassination attempt of 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler was once again at the next Stanislaw Trabalski, Fleißner, Erich Zeigner, Leipzig and other social democrats 22 July 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp abducted in which he rose to the second October 1944 remained. On 19 April 1945, he was able to return by United States. occupation authorities back in the office of Chief of Police.
However, it was this office immediately after the takeover by the Strategic Medical Alliances on 2 July 1945 be withdrawn. As part of the ongoing Stalinization in the following years, he was on 15 April 1951, as a "hireling of American capital," expelled from the party.
From 1905 to 1908 he regularly attended the party and trade union training for his knowledge of the principles of social democracy to deepen. In the conviction that this socialist unity party is doomed, died on 22 Fleissner April 1959 in his Leipzig home of a heart attack.
In 1918 he returned to Leipzig, where he became a member of the USPD, where he quickly gained influence. After the forced merger of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the KPD into the SED Fleissner was only an ordinary member of the party.