Karl Ott (politician)

Karl Ott (born July 28, 1891 in Strasbourg ; † December 25, 1977 in Emden ) was a German ministerial official in the Reichsdienst and in Lower Saxony a member of the state parliament and state secretary ( all-German block / Federation of expellees and disenfranchised ).

Life

After attending grammar schools in Koblenz and Bonn, Ott passed the Abitur examination at Easter 1911. He started at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to study law and was 1912 Corps Bavaria Munich recipiert . As inactive he went to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in 1913 . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, most recently as a first lieutenant : in May 1917 he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class and in October 1917 the Military Merit Order (Bavaria) IV class. In 1915 he passed the trainee examination and in 1920 the assessor examination for the higher judicial and administrative service. In May 1920 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . Admitted to the Reich administration, he was appointed to the Reich Ministry of Finance in 1922 as a councilor. In 1926/27 he was seconded to the Geneva Secretariat of the League of Nations in preparation for the World Economic Conference. In 1927 he was recalled to the budget department of the Reich Ministry of Finance. From 1928 to 1930 he was a member of the Bavarian People's Party . In December 1932 he joined the NSDAP (membership no. 1.418.017). On June 1, 1932, he became a supporting member of the SS .

During the entire period of National Socialism he was head of the budget and finance department in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels , most recently as ministerial director . At the same time he was a member of the supervisory boards of various imperial societies. During the Nazi era he was also a member of the Reichsbund der Deutschen Officials from 1934 to 1945 , from 1936 to 1945 in the National Socialist People's Welfare , and from 1937 to 1940 he was honorary manager of the Goebbels Foundation “Künstlerdank”. 1938–1945 he was in the German-Italian Society and in the German Foreign Club in Berlin.

The court proceedings in Essen were discontinued with a decision of February 10, 1949. Ott had stated that he had been appointed head of the finance department in the Propaganda Ministry against his will. Since 1938 he had tried several times for a transfer to the Ministry of Economics; but his applications were repeatedly rejected by Goebbels.

Ott was in the second electoral term from May 6, 1951 until his resignation on October 28, 1952, and in the fourth electoral period from May 6, 1959 to May 5, 1963 member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . From October 1952 to July 1956, Ott was State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior . According to the British secret service, in 1953 he had contacts with the Naumann Circle , a group of former National Socialists who wanted to infiltrate the Free Democratic Party .

Awards

Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1956)

literature

Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, pp. 108, 190 ( online as PDF) .
Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 283.
Willi A. Boelcke (Ed.): War Propaganda 1939–1941. Secret ministerial conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1966, p. 61

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 104/1409.
↑ Member since 1932 Rüdiger Hachtmann, Winfried Süss: Hitler's Commissioners: Special Powers in the National Socialist Dictatorship , p.83, note 79 .
^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 446, source: BA N 1080/272.

personal data
SURNAME	Ott, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (GB / BHE), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH	December 25, 1977
Place of death	Emden

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 104/1409.

[2] Member since 1932 Rüdiger Hachtmann, Winfried Süss: Hitler's Commissioners: Special Powers in the National Socialist Dictatorship , p.83, note 79 .

[Klee000-3] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 446, source: BA N 1080/272.