Otto Hackmack

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Otto Hackmack (born February 14, 1922 in Sande , Stormarn district ; † February 19, 2016 ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ). From 1970 to 1974 he was Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Life

After graduating from high school in Reinbek in 1940 , Hackmack was drafted into the Wehrmacht and did military service in the infantry, most recently as a non-commissioned officer. After the Second World War , he began studying economics at the University of Hamburg , which he completed in 1949 with an examination as a graduate economist. During his studies he got to know his future political companions Helmut Schmidt and Oswald Paulig ; with the latter he had a long friendship.

From 1951 to 1970 Hackmack was employed by the Food-Enjoyment-Gaststätten (NGG) union. He was elected to the executive board in 1962 and worked there for the main treasury and asset management. From 1975 to 1984 he was the first managing director of the Norddeutsche Treuhand- und Kreditgesellschaft for residential construction.

Hackmack joined the SPD in 1946. In the township elections of 1966 , 1970 and 1974 he was elected to the Hamburg parliament, to which he belonged until 1978. From 1968 to 1970 he was chairman of the budget committee and deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

Hackmack was elected to the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( Senate Weichmann III ) led by Herbert Weichmann on April 22, 1970 . Until December 31, 1970, he ran the tax authorities together with Hans Rau . He was the Senator's Senator for the Administration Service and held this position after January 1, 1971, when he also took over as President of the newly created authority for property and public companies. Until April 30, 1974 he was a member of the Senate led by Peter Schulz ( Senate Schulz I ). In the citizenry, his mandate was suspended during his membership in the Senate, he was again deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 1974 to 1976.

Otto Hackmack was married and had a daughter.

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 19th edition. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976, p. 317.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-Senator Otto Hackmack: Top fit at 90. In: Bergedorfer Zeitung . February 14, 2012, accessed April 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Willy Buschak : Of people who wanted to live like people. The history of the food-pleasure-restaurants union and its predecessors. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7663-0922-6 , p. 584.
personal data
SURNAME Hackmack, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Sande , Stormarn district
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2016