Oskar Maretzky

Oskar Maretzky

Easter 1934 on the Tempelhofer Feld, from left: Maretzky, Erhard Milch with wife and daughter and Ernst Udet , photo from the Federal Archives

Oskar Maretzky (born June 2, 1881 in Breslau ; † February 1945 in Helmsdorf near Tuplitz ) was a German lawyer and politician ( DVP , NLRP , DNVP , non-party , NSDAP ).

Life and work

Maretzky, who was a Protestant , was born the son of a dentist. After graduating from high school in 1900 at the Magdalenaeum in Breslau , he studied law in Breslau, where he joined the Arminia fraternity in Breslau , and Leipzig , which he finished in 1903 with the first state examination. In 1904 he received his doctorate in law. After the second state examination, he became a court assessor in 1908, joined the Berlin administrative service as a magistrate assessor in 1909 and worked as the municipal lawyer in Berlin-Lichtenberg from 1912 to 1918 and was also a member of the association assembly of the Greater Berlin Association during this time .

After leaving politics, Maretzky was a member of the Presidium of the German Red Cross . During the Second World War he worked as an employee at Knorr-Bremse AG in Berlin-Lichtenberg.

Political party

During the time of the Weimar Republic , Maretzky initially joined the DVP . In June 1924 he left the party and took part in the founding of the National Liberal Reich Party , of which he became chairman. In February 1925 he switched to the DNVP , which he belonged to until it was dissolved in 1933. During the time of National Socialism he was initially close to the NSDAP as a politician without a party, but was unable to join the party due to the general ban on membership . On March 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP.

MP

Maretzky had been a member of the Weimar National Assembly since the Reichstag election in 1919 and was subsequently elected to the Reichstag . After joining the National Liberal Reich Party, he was accepted as an intern in the DNVP parliamentary group. In the elections in May 1924 he was the only member of the National Liberal Reich Party to receive a mandate from the Reichstag through a list connection. In December 1924 he left the Reichstag. From 1924 to 1932 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Public offices

In 1911/12 Maretzky was the deputy mayor of Boxhagen-Rummelsburg . From 1912 to 1920 he was mayor of Berlin-Lichtenberg. In addition, he held the office of Berlin Police President during the Kapp Putsch .

Maretzky was temporarily appointed mayor of Greater Berlin in 1933 and also headed the city's economic and corporate departments. After Heinrich Sahm's resignation , he took over the provisional management of the mayor's office on December 19, 1935, which he held until March 31, 1937, when he retired on the occasion of Julius Lippert's appointment as mayor.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 28-29.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Oskar Maretzky . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)
2. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 . , P. 309.

Web links

• Literature by and about Oskar Maretzky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Oskar Maretzky in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography at www.luise-berlin.de