Nikolaus Osterroth

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Nikolaus Osterroth

Nikolaus Osterroth (born February 16, 1875 in Hettenleidelheim , † September 19, 1933 in Paris ) was a Social Democratic member of the National Assembly from 1919.

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After attending primary school in Hettenleidelheim, Osterroth, whose father was a butcher, began working as a miner in clay mining at the age of 14 . He carried out this work - with a brief interruption due to his military service with the 18th Bavarian Infantry Regiment from 1895 to 1897, until 1902.

From 1902 to 1907 he worked as a storekeeper for a consumer association. During this time Nikolaus Osterroth was already working as party secretary of the SPD and editor of the party newspaper "Saarwacht" in Saarbrücken . It was chairman of the Saarbrücken-St. Johann.

From 1907 to 1913 he worked as a workers secretary in Waldenburg / Silesia , in 1910 he took over the chairmanship of the SPD Waldenburg, which he held until 1923. In 1913 he was given the job of district manager of the miners' association in Hamm / Westf. Here he was active until 1919. During the First World War, Osterroth took part as a Landsturmmann on the Eastern Front from 1915 to 1917.

In Hamm-Soest he became city councilor and chairman of the local SPD constituency organization. In 1918 he also took over the chairmanship of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Hamm.

From 1919 to 1920 Nikolaus Osterroth was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . From 1921 to 1933 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament. From 1919 to 1923 he was a mining advisor in the Reich Ministry of Economics. From 1922 he took on the role of a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Labor.

From 1924 to 1933 he was a deputy board member and socio-political director of the Preussische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG ( Preussag ) in Werder / Havel and a member of the supervisory board of two other mining companies.

“In the new form of business (the Preussag, note) a spirit will develop in which the officials will feel at home and not as a foreign body. I believe the staff will be able to join together to form a communal family spirit in which everyone feels that they are the trustees of the goods entrusted to them. "

- Nikolaus Osterroth : Inaugural address, January 1, 1924

The post of social director was introduced here for the first time. Nikolaus Osterroth saw his job as holding the new Preussag company together internally.

He was also a city councilor in Werder.

Nikolaus Osterroth founded the newspaper Schlesische Bergwacht in 1911 as the "organ for the Lower Silesian industrial district" in Waldenburg. The last edition appeared in 1933.

Nikolaus Osterroth committed suicide with his wife on September 19, 1933 while in exile in Paris.

Publications

  • An impoverished mountain area . In: The New Time . Weekly of the German Social Democracy . 31 year 1912-1913, Volume 2 (1913), Issue 30, pp. 133-143. Digitized
  • What can we socialize? For the socialization of lignite mining . In: The New Time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy . Volume 37, Volume 2 1918/1919. Issue 22, pp. 511-517. Digitized
  • Profit or demand economy . In: The New Time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy . Volume 38, 1919-1920, Volume 1 (1919), Issue 12, pp. 263-268. Digitized
  • The Works Council Act and Social Democracy. Two speeches by MPs Bender and Osterroth on the 2nd and 3rd reading of the law . Social Democratic Party, District Secretariat, Frankfurt am Main 1920.
  • From prayer to fighter. Verlag Buchhandlung Vorwärts, Berlin 1920.
    • From prayer to fighter . With an introduction by Hans J. Schütz. JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin, Bonn 1980.
  • Self-help by using the purchasing power of wages. An economic chat, self-help! . Forward. Printing and publishing house, Berlin 1920.
  • The fight for Upper Silesia . In: The New Time . 38. Vol. 1919-1920, Volume 2 (1920), Issue 23, pp. 529-534. Digitized
  • How I was police chief in school . In: Workers' Youth . 1920, pp. 62-63. Digitized
  • The dispute over the working groups . Edited by “Aufbau und Werden”, Society for Practical Public Enlightenment. The firn, Berlin 1921.
  • Otto Hue . A picture of life for his friends. Edited by the board of directors of the Association of Miners in Germany. Printed by H. Hannsmann & Co., Bochum 1922. Digitized
  • The indecent lion and other rascal stories . With drawings by Heiner Dikreiter . Drei Zinnen Verlag, Würzburg 1922. Children's book
  • The German worker and the Ruhreinfall. Publishing house for politics and economics, Berlin 1923.
    • The German Worker and the Ruhr invasion . Publishing house for politics and economics, Berlin 1923.
    • L 'ouvrier allemand et l'invasion de la Ruhr Publishing House for Politics and Economy, Berlin 1923.

literature

  • Nikolaus Osterroth . In: Franz Osterroth: Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, pp. 236-237.
  • Walther G. Oschilewski : A man on site. On the 100th birthday of Nikolaus Osterroth . In: The New Society. 22nd 1975; Pp. 328-330.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Joachim Heinz: pioneer of workers and advocate of miners. Nikolaus Osterroth (1875–1933). Miners, trade unionists and politicians in the Saar region, on the Ruhr and in Silesia . In: Bergmannskalender . (2003), pp. 169-184.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://ov-st-johann.spd-saar.de/index.php?id=9598

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personal data
SURNAME Osterroth, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), member of the National Assembly 1919 and member of the Prussian Landtag (1921–1933)
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Hettenleidelheim
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1933
Place of death Paris