Otto Burgemeister

Otto Burgemeister (born May 27, 1883 in Riestedt , † January 31, 1957 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1919 to 1933 he was a member of the Berlin city council , from 1947 to 1951 district mayor in Berlin-Tempelhof and from 1950 to 1954 a member of the Berlin House of Representatives .

Life

Otto Burgemeister attended elementary school and did an apprenticeship to become a legal assistant . At the age of 20 he was already an office manager in Sangerhausen and Quedlinburg . In 1905 he came to Berlin, in the then still independent community of Tempelhof . Here he became a member of the SPD in 1913. Before the First World War , he was elected a local councilor.

From 1919 to 1933 he was a functionary of the Central Employees' Association in Berlin. In the Berlin address books he was listed as the "Association Secretary" until 1937. From 1942 Burgemeister was responsible for the legal department of the Allgemeine Häuser- und Ingenieur-Bau AG. For the SPD he was a member of the Berlin city council from 1919 to 1933. He was persecuted by the National Socialists and taken into " protective custody " several times .

From June 1945 he was the mayor of Berlin-Marienfelde and from 1946 to 1947 he was district councilor in the Tempelhof district , where he was then district mayor until 1951. In the 1950 election he was elected as a SPD member in the Berlin House of Representatives, to which he belonged until 1954. In 1956 he was appointed city ​​elder of Berlin .

Honorary grave on the Heidefriedhof in Berlin (2017)

Otto Burgemeister died on January 31, 1957, he was buried in the Heidefriedhof in Berlin-Mariendorf and his grave site E VII 283/284 is designated as an honorary grave of the city of Berlin .

On July 8, 1960, the former Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse in Berlin-Tempelhof , near which he had lived during the National Socialist era, was renamed Burgemeisterstrasse .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 80 (331 pages).
• Active Museum Association : In Front of the Door - Berlin City Councilors and Magistrate Members Persecuted During National Socialism 1933–1945 , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018931-9 , pp. 160 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Otto Burgemeister's grave of honor on friedparks.de.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Burgemeisterstraße. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
3. ^ ^{A b} Socialist messages , library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .
4. ↑ Burgemeister, Otto . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1937, part 1, p. 348.
5. ↑ Put in front of the door ( memento of September 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Berlin city councilors and members of the magistrate persecuted under National Socialism 1933–1945. An exhibition by the Active Museum Association (2006)
6. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (PDF; 566 kB) Status: October 2016.
7. ^ Willy Buße ( Memento from November 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) SPD Berlin, History of the Berlin SPD.