Otto Assmann

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Otto Aßmann (born May 25, 1901 in Königsberg ; † August 14, 1977 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was Lord Mayor of Zwickau from 1949 to 1954 and Lord Mayor of Gera from 1956 to 1958 .

Career

Aßmann was the eldest of ten children of a metalworker and learned the trade of a lathe operator after completing the seven-grade elementary school and working in the SPD printing shop. Since his parents were organized in the SPD, Assmann came into contact with the labor movement at an early stage; he joined the working class youth in 1915, the USPD in 1918 and the SPD in 1922. In March 1933 he was elected to the council of Königsberg for the SPD.

In 1937, after a long period of unemployment, Aßmann began working as an engine fitter in the Königsberg plant of Lufthansa . During the Second World War in 1941 he was assigned to a front-line repair command as an engine fitter and only drafted into the Wehrmacht in March 1945 . In August 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in October 1945 due to illness. From November 1945 he then settled in Zwickau. There he was involved in the SPD until it was absorbed by the SED in 1946 . From May 1949 to June 1950 he was 2nd District Secretary of the SED in Zwickau.

In June 1949 and again in December 1950, the Zwickau city council elected him Lord Mayor. Due to disciplinary offenses, he was released from this position on February 18, 1954 and was then employed as plant manager in the VEB Zwickau stoneware factory until October 1955.

Assmann was briefly deputy mayor in Gera and was elected mayor on December 19, 1956 to succeed Curt Boehme . During his tenure, among other things, the technical vocational school of the SDAG Wismut and the "Bergmann's House" were opened in today's Berliner Strasse. On June 29, 1958, he laid the foundation stone for the construction of the “socialist city center” in Gera.

Aßmann held the office of Mayor of Gera until the end of 1958, then moved to Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1959 and became manager there.

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personal data
SURNAME Assmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1977
Place of death Karl Marx City