Hermann Osterloh

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Hermann Osterloh (born June 19, 1886 in Bremen -Arsten; † October 12, 1961 in Bremen) was a German local office manager and politician ( KPD , SPD ) from Bremen and a member of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

education and profession

Osterloh learned the trade of a farmer. He then worked for a road and civil engineering company. He was a soldier in World War I and returned from captivity in 1920. From 1928 to 1934 he worked for a company in Bremen, where he was a works council. He presided over 1946-1954, the local office of Hemelingen in Bremen.

politics

In 1905 Osterloh joined the union. He was a member of the SPD from 1908 until the end of the First World War. At the time of the Weimar Republic he had been a member of the KPD in Bremen from 1920, which appointed him as a full-time secretary for land issues. From 1922 to 1928 Osterloh was a member of the Bremen citizenship for the KPD. In 1926 he became head of organization for the Northwest District. In October 1928 Osterloh, who leaned towards the so-called right wing of the party, was expelled from the KPD.

In 1930 he rejoined the SPD, for which he was also elected to Bremen's citizenship, but gave up his mandate after being involved in the bankruptcy of the Bremer Beamtenbank. From 1933 Osterloh headed an SPD resistance group against National Socialism . He was arrested in 1934 and sentenced to eight years in prison for alleged high treason . In 1943 he was released. The Gestapo undercover agent, Hermann Herrlein, later stated that he had successfully applied for Osterloh to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin as an undercover agent for Bremen and placed him with the AG Weser . In 1947, Osterloh wrote to the Spruchkammer that he had to report to Herrlein every Wednesday.

From 1947 to 1951 he was again a member of the citizenship for the SPD and worked in various deputations of the citizenship a. a. in the building deputation. At the same time he headed the social democratic group of the politically persecuted in Bremen.

Honors

  • In Bremen- Hemelingen , district of Arbergen, a street was named after him.
  • In the exhibition Police and Violence from 2011, he was remembered as a victim of political persecution.
  • The small Hermann-Osterloh-See in Bremen-Arbergen bears his name

literature

  • Osterloh, Hermann . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
  • Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .
  • Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .
  • (Federal) Foundation for the processing of the SED dictatorship: Biographical databases .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He made the "village" a district, Weser-Kurier of June 30, 1954, p. 5, online only for subscribers
  2. ↑ Hans Wrobel, "pardoned on Bremen's request" - The Kaisen Senate and the pardon of the SS Brigade Leader Major General Erwin Schulz, Bremisches Jahrbuch des Staatsarchiv 97 (2018)
personal data
SURNAME Osterloh, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen -Arsten
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1961
Place of death Bremen