Otto Dahlem

This article represents the SA leader; the fruit grower of the same name is shown under Otto Dahlem (fruit grower) .

Otto Dahlem

Otto Dahlem (born October 1, 1891 in Wirges ; † October 9, 1980 ibid) was a German politician ( NSDAP ). He was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag and SA leader .

biography

Otto Dahlem, a pipe fitter at the Essen gas and waterworks, was a volunteer with the 23rd Field Artillery Regiment in Koblenz from 1910 to 1912 . Later he attended the shooting school in Jüterbog and from 1914 he did his military service in a field artillery regiment until the end of the First World War. After the war he worked as a pipelayer in Essen .

In 1928 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 85.225) and from August 1928 to June 30, 1932 he was SA leader in the Essen district of Segeroth . Then he was appointed SA standard leader and was leader of the SA in Essen-Mülheim until March 17, 1933 . He was still the leader of the SA Standard in Essen-Altstadt for a few weeks until he took over the leadership of SA Standard 193 in Moers -Niederrhein on September 1, 1933 and held it until the end of the war. In the SA he was promoted to Oberführer until 1943 . In 1933 he was a member of the state parliament for Prussia for a few months. From November 1933 he represented constituency 23 in the German Reichstag, to which he belonged continuously until the end of the Second World War .

After 1945, he got into the French zone in captivity and had in the fall of 1947 denazification undergo. He then continued to live in Moers before moving to Bad Godesberg in 1967 . He died in his hometown in 1980.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).

Web links

• Otto Dahlem in the database of members of the Reichstag