Oswald Chancellor

Stumbling block for Oswald Chancellor in Hoppenstedtstrasse in Hamburg-Eißendorf

Gravestone of Oswald Kanzler and his wife on the field of honor of the Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation of the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf

Oswald Kanzler (born April 18, 1883 in Orlishausen , † September 16, 1944 in Hamburg ) was a German local politician and party functionary of the SPD . Chancellor was a member of the Harburg citizenship , from 1929 to 1933 in the provincial parliament of the province of Hanover and from 1930 to 1933 in the Prussian State Council .

Life

Chancellor attended elementary school in Orlishausen and Gorsleben and learned the craft of molding . After completing his training, he went hiking . From 1904 to 1906 he completed his military service and then worked as a moulder in the Georg Niemeyer machine factory in Bostelbek . At the First World War chancellor participated as a soldier and was at the end of the war council chairman at Niemeyer.

Since 1924 the Chancellor was a member of the Citizenship Board and the Citizenship in Harburg. In the same year he became full-time party secretary of the SPD in Harburg-Wilhelmsburg , an office that he held until the party was banned in June 1933. From 1929 to 1933 he was a member of the provincial parliament of Hanover and as such from January 1930 to the end of June 1933 a member of the Prussian State Council. After the National Socialists came to power and the SPD was banned from June 1933, Oswald Chancellor was initially unemployed, later he was employed as a representative at an insurance company. At the end of June he was held in protective custody for one day in the Harburg court prison . A month later, Chancellor was arrested again and this time imprisoned for a few weeks. Then the Gestapo monitored him as a leading politician of the Harburg SPD.

After the attempted assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, in August 1944 the grate action was carried out throughout the Reich , during which there were mass arrests of former local politicians and members of liberal, left and bourgeois parties. Oswald Kanzler was among those arrested. He was arrested on August 22, 1944 and taken to the Gestapo prison in Fuhlsbüttel . Chancellor had a serious heart condition and needed medication, which he was not given. A few weeks later, on September 16, 1944, Oswald Kanzler died at the age of 61 as a result of drug withdrawal. In his honor, a street in Hamburg-Wilstorf , the Oswald-Kanzler-Weg, was named in 1988 . His name also appears on the memorial plaque inaugurated in 2007 The Victims of National Socialism among the parliamentarians from Lower Saxony areas in the foyer of the Leineschloss in Hanover . In the Hamburg district of Eißendorf , a stumbling block was laid for Oswald Kanzler at Hoppenstedtstraße 53 (see also: List of stumbling blocks in Hamburg-Eißendorf ).

His daughter Gertrud from his marriage to Emilie Bademann took an active part in the communist resistance against National Socialism in Altona . She was sentenced to four years in prison in 1936 . Gertrud Kanzler married the KPD member Otto Nehring and after 1945 sat for the KPD, for a time as parliamentary group leader, in the Harburg district committee. Oswald Kanzler was buried together with his wife on the honorary field of the Geschwister-Scholl-Foundation of the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf .

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann / Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 . Page 180-181.
• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the state councilors appointed in the “Third Reich”. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , page 82.

Web links

• Hans-Joachim Meyer: Oswald Chancellor. in www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de