Kurt Otto (politician, 1887)

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Kurt Otto (born June 9, 1887 in Proskau , Opole district , province of Silesia ; † August 9, 1947 in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald ) was a German National Socialist politician.

Life

The son of a forestry councilor, studied law. After Otto had headed various tax offices in the Prussian province of Saxony , he became provisional governor of this province in Merseburg in 1933 as a leading NSDAP member and from then on was the highest administrative officer at the head of the provincial association and thus the three administrative districts of Magdeburg , Merseburg and Erfurt . Through the Prussian law on the extension of the powers of the upper presidents of December 15, 1933, the duties of the governor were transferred to the governor and made the governor the deputy of the governor.

In the role of governor Otto u. a. significantly involved in actions against Jewish citizens and artists. In May 1933, for example, he ordered the destruction of Charles Crodel's works in the Goethe Theater in Bad Lauchstädt .

Otto, who had also been chairman of the board of trustees of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology since 1933 , advocated the euthanasia murders of Operation T4 , according to Irmfried Eberl , the medical director of the Brandenburg and Bernburg killing centers , and was “absolutely positive” about them .

In the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, he applied unsuccessfully for a mandate in constituency 11 ( Merseburg ) on the last list place with the number 1031.

In 1938 he sponsored the publication of a compilation by Louise von François under the title From the Province of Saxony by Siegfried Berger .

After the retirement of Magdeburg's chief president Curt von Ulrich in 1944, he was the most important administrative officer and remained in office until 1945.

On May 26, 1945 he was arrested by the Soviet army and taken to special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald. There he died of a deficiency disease.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 447.
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician ( NSDAP )
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Proskau , District of Opole , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1947
Place of death Special camp No. 2 Buchenwald