Fritz Thurm (2 July 1883 – 13 June 1937) was a German Social democrat politician and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Thurm was born in Fraustadt, Province of Posen, German Empire (Wschowa, Poland). He was trained as a bookprinter and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1905. He worked for the public health insurance (AOK) of Berlin-Lichtenberg from 1913 on and served in World War I from 1915 to 1918. He became a member of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and was elected town councillor and deputy mayor of Lichtenberg in 1919 but not appointed by the Upper President of the Province of Brandenburg. Thurm rejoined the SPD in 1922 and was elected and appointed town councillor of Lichtenberg in 1926. In March 1933 he was dismissed from this posit