Otto Büchting

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Otto Büchting (born May 20, 1868 in Wernigerode ; † June 16, 1951 there ) was a liberal German local and state politician ( Progressive People's Party , German Democratic Party , German State Party , Liberal Democratic Party ) and entrepreneur.

Life

He was the fifth son of Karl Büchting, who owned a tannery in the Prussian district town of Wernigerode. After attending secondary school, Otto Büchting learned a merchant and tanner in order to take over his father's tannery in 1887. He owned the Büchting brothers, Lederwerke Wernigerode, An der Holtemme 4a , which was founded in 1788.

In 1903 Otto Büchting was elected to the city council of Wernigerode, of which he became chairman in 1911 at the latest as a member of the Progressive People's Party (later the German Democratic Party (DDP) or German State Party). After the First World War, Otto Büchting successfully ran for the provincial parliament of the Prussian province of Saxony in Magdeburg . In 1933 he had to resign from the office of the city councilor and his state parliament mandate.

Otto Büchting was chairman of the supervisory board of Nordhausen-Wernigeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft GmbH during the Nazi era . At his side was Lord Mayor Curt Baller from Aschersleben as deputy .

When, after the Second World War, on July 23, 1945 at Otto Büchting's suggestion, together with the lawyer Dr. Voigt the local group Wernigerode of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was founded, he was elected first chairman. He later represented the LDP in the district of Wernigerode . In the city he was in charge of the slaughterhouse and, most recently, the municipal transport office.

family

He was married to Dorothea Büchting.

Honors

  • On the occasion of his 80th birthday he was appointed city ​​elder by the Wernigerode city council.

literature

  • Ralf Matern: Places of the Wernigerode workers and democracy movement. A historical tour through the city and the districts , Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2017, pp. 12-14.
  • Personalities. Working material of the district history commission of the district of Harz (manuscript in the Harz library Wernigerode)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wernigerode in annual figures
personal data
SURNAME Büchting, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liberal German local and state politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1951
Place of death Wernigerode