Otto Büchner

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Otto Büchner

Otto Büchner (born February 7, 1865 in Charlottenburg ; † November 29, 1957 in East Berlin ) was a member of the Reichstag for the SPD from 1911 to 1918.

Life

Otto Büchner did an apprenticeship as a mechanic after completing elementary school in 1878, which he completed in 1883 and then worked as a mechanic and watchmaker. From 1895 to 1897 he was an authorized representative of the branch of the metal workers' association in Berlin .

Otto Büchner had been a member of the SPD since 1888. In April 1911, he became a member of the Reichstag for the late Paul Singer , to which he was a member until 1918. From 1917 to 1922 he was in the USPD , after which he returned to the SPD. From November 1918 to February 1919 he was Undersecretary of State in the Reich Office for Economic Demobilization .

From 1921 to 1933 he was a district and city ​​councilor in Berlin . After the Second World War he spoke out in favor of the unification of the KPD and SPD to form the SED . In April 1946 he was a member of the presidium of the founding party congress of the SED.

tomb

The SED honored him with a grave in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde , where his urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists .

Works

  • A socialist tells , East Berlin, 1957 (autobiography)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. http://www.sozialistenfriedhof.de/a_fe.html