Heinrich Otto (politician, 1893)

Heinrich Otto (born August 5, 1893 in Siegen , † July 31, 1983 ) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was district administrator of the district of Siegen and member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Heinrich Otto was the son of the marriage of Adolf and Katharina Otto born. Lorsbach. He was married to Bernhardine Otto geb. Tribe; from the marriage came a daughter who died in 1929 at the age of six.

Before the First World War he studied engineering at the Wiesenbauschule in Siegen. He then completed an apprenticeship as a cultural construction technician. During World War I Otto was obliged to do military service. in January 1915 he began his service with the infantry body regiment "Grand Duchess" (3rd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 117 , which belonged to the Mainz garrison . After deployments in the position camp in Roye and Chaulnes , both in Somme in northern France , he was seriously wounded on March 2, 1916 in Verdun ; both lower legs had to be amputated. This was followed by a one-year stay in the hospitals in Frankfurt am Main and Siegen.

In addition to various activities in the commercial sector and in the postal service, he received a handicapped pension in 1920 according to the Reich Supply Act of May 12, 1920.

With the formative experiences from the war, he became involved as a pacifist in the peace movement from 1918. He joined the German Peace Society (DFG) as an activist , which was founded in 1892 by Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Hermann Fried . He became secretary and district manager of the DFG in Siegerland and Dillkreis and got in touch with the parties KPD and SPD, which are closely related to the DFG.

In 1928 he joined the KPD and quickly became the agitpropleiter of the Siegen sub-district. Until 1931 he was the organization manager. He became an editor, shortly afterwards an instructor at the Central Committee of the KPD and thus belonged to the management level of the KPD. He was also involved in the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) , a communist movement in the free trade unions and, from 1929, an independent trade union.

After the National Socialist seizure of power, Heinrich Otto was monitored by the police and arrested several times in 1933/34 and suffered house searches and confiscations. However, two investigations into preparation for high treason as a party member and peace activist could not be proven and were discontinued.

Otto experienced the Second World War as a disabled man in Siegerland. After the end of the war, he became active in local and party politics and organized the reconstruction of the KPD in Siegerland. From 1945 to 1947 he was political director in the Siegen subdistrict in Siegen, Olpe and Wittgenstein. In 1945/46 he became involved across party lines as a “Democratic Working Group of Representatives of the Four Former Democratic Parties” to which the DDP, SPD, KPD and Center Party belonged, and from 1946 was continued by the CDU, SPD, FDP and KPD. He was also a member of the advisory committee for the district of Siegen and the city ​​of Siegen as well as a board member of the Association of Victims of War, Bombs and Labor Victims .

From December 18, 1945 to October 24, 1946, Heinrich Otto was a member of the district council of the Siegen district. On February 5, 1946, Heinrich Otto was elected district administrator at the suggestion of the KPD, SPD and Liberals. He was also a member of the Agriculture Promotion Committee and the Reconstruction Committee. In the elections in autumn 1946, the CDU politician and district director Joseph Büttner was elected district administrator.

Heinrich Otto was a member of the appointed Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from October 2 to December 16, 1946 in the first term of office . On October 2, 1946, he was present at the ceremonial opening of the state parliament in the Düsseldorf opera house after the end of the war. After the local elections ordered by the British military government in 1946, he could no longer obtain a seat in the state parliament.

Heinrich Otto was the first labor director at Hüttenwerke Geisweid AG from 1947 to 1951 .

At the beginning of the 1950s he was expelled from the KPD for obscure reasons.

Web links

• Heinrich Otto at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} F. Kraume: "District Administrator Heinrich Otto - A biographical sketch" , Siegen-Wittgenstein district , May 27, 2010, accessed on November 19, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Information, biography and documents on Heinrich Otto (archives in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district) , archives in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district , accessed on November 19, 2015

predecessor	Office	successor
Fritz Fries	District Administrator of the District of Siegen in 1946	Joseph Buettner