Karl Otto Uhlig

Karl Otto Uhlig (bottom row, left) and the other members of the social democratic faction in the Saxon state parliament, 1909

Karl Otto Uhlig (born April 12, 1872 in Neuwelschhufe near Dresden , † April 27, 1950 in Radebeul ) was an SPD politician, member of the state parliament, and Saxon interior minister in 1919 and 1920 .

Live and act

The son of a miner completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter and attended the printing school in Dresden until 1890. Only three years later he became a member of the Gau Board of the Book Printers Association in Dresden. From 1899 to 1902 he was a member of the local council of Nöthnitz , and from 1900 he was also a member of the newspaper commission of the Saxon workers' newspaper . In 1902 his son Otto Uhlig was born.

1903 to 1905 he was chairman of the SPD Dresden-Altstadt, 1905 to 1908 city councilor in Dresden, then until 1913 editor of the Zittauer Volkszeitung . From 1909 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament . From 1913 to 1918 he was state secretary of the SPD Saxony. In 1918 Uhlig sat briefly as a member of the SPD Bautzen in the Reichstag , after which he became president of the state workers ' and soldiers' council and editor of the Dresdner Volkszeitung . In 1919 he founded the Saxon community newspaper . Uhlig was a member of the Saxon People's Chamber from 1919 to 1920 . From March 1919 to May 1920 he was Interior Minister in the Free State of Saxony , at the same time Deputy Prime Minister and member of the Reichsrat .

From 1920 until he was forcibly removed from office by the National Socialists on March 9, 1933, Uhlig was the first mayor of Radeberg . Uhlig also held numerous other functions, including on the supervisory board of the Saxon Giro Association and as an employee of the State Welfare and Youth Welfare Office.

Honors

In 1948 Uhlig was made an honorary citizen of Radeberg . Otto-Uhlig-Strasse still exists here today.

Works

• The elementary school. A collection of materials on school reform. Dresden 1913.
• The last Wettins on the Saxon royal throne. Hochschul-Verlag, Munich 1920

literature

• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 482-483.

Web links

• The Saxon Interior Ministers at a glance: Karl Otto Uhlig (with a photo)
• Andreas Reichel: Otto Uhlig (1872–1950) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Otto Uhlig's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Otto Uhlig's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Literature by and about Karl Otto Uhlig in the Saxon Bibliography