Karl Otter

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Karl Otter (born April 27, 1883 in Sendrowen , Ortelsburg district ; † spring 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( USPD , SPD ).

Life

Karl Otter was born the son of a miner. His family moved from East Prussia to Bochum , where he attended elementary school and learned his father's profession. From 1899 he worked as a miner in the Ruhr mining industry , was involved in the union and from June 1913 to 1915 was an employee of the miners' association in Bochum. He then took part in the First World War as a soldier , from which he returned in 1917 as a war disabled. From December 1, 1918, he was again employed as an employee (trade union official) in the central office of the Miners' Association in Bochum. He was also a member of the Prussian Mine Safety Commission.

Otter joined the SPD shortly after the turn of the century and was a member of the board of the SPD constituency organization Recklinghausen-Borken from 1909 to 1913. In 1917 he founded the USPD in Bochum, was party secretary and was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament in February 1921 . From 1922 he was again a member of the majority socialists. He was a member of the state parliament without interruption until the end of the third electoral term in 1932. In parliament he represented constituency 18 (Westphalia-South).

After the National Socialists came to power , Otter was dismissed as a union official in 1933. A year later he was arrested and subsequently interned in a concentration camp. In August 1944 he was arrested again and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . From there he was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he died in the spring of 1945.

literature

  • Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. P. 572.
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928. P. 1146.
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , pp. 154f.

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SURNAME Otter, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (USPD, SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Sendrowen , Ortelsburg district
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Bergen-Belsen concentration camp