Otto Adams
Otto Adams (born September 4, 1887 in Witzhelden , † August 30, 1966 in Essen-Rüttenscheid ) was a German trade unionist and member of the Reichstag .
Life
Otto Adams, of Protestant denomination, attended elementary school in Essen from 1893 and from 1899 . From 1901 to 1904 he completed an apprenticeship as a construction carpenter there , just like his father did. At the same time he went to the advanced training, technical and trade school. Later he took part in courses of the German Association in Essen, Bonn and Berlin.
In 1911 he became one of the leaders of the national-economic-peaceful labor movement and from 1919 a member of the German Workers' Union , a yellow union in Essen, of which he became chairman in 1920. At the same time he was elected to the board of the German Association of the National Association of German Professional Associations. From 1920 to 1928 he was a member of the Reichstag for the German People's Party for the Düsseldorf-East constituency. After he was no longer elected to the Reichstag after 1928, he became self-employed as a commercial agent. After the Second World War , in 1945 he co-founded the FDP district association in the Ruhr area and the regional association of the Rhineland . At the same time he worked as an honorary judge in Essen.
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (November 30, 1962)
literature
- Essen heads. Who was what Richard Bracht Verlag, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-87034-037-1
- Reich Manual of the German Society. The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, p. 7, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
- Martin Schumacher : MdR, the Reichstag deputies of the Weimar Republic. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1
Web links
- Otto Adams in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Otto Adams biography . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the Order's Chancellery in the Office of the Federal President.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adams, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionist and politician, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Joke heroes |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1966 |
| Place of death | Essen-Rüttenscheid |