Otto Demme

Otto Demme (born September 12, 1901 in Ebeleben , † April 19, 1969 in Lichtenfels ) was a German lawyer and politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Demme was born the son of a master plumber . After elementary school in Ebeleben, he attended grammar school in Sondershausen from 1912 to 1921 . From 1922 to 1926 he studied law and economics in Jena and Göttingen , interrupted by a year-long work as a bank volunteer and employee in Greußen . After completing his studies, he was in the legal preparatory service from April 1929 to June 1929, which he completed with the second state examination in Jena.

After acting as a representative at various lawyers, Demme worked as an independent lawyer in Weimar from 1930 . He mainly defended NSDAP members in political trials. From March 28, 1933 to April 1945, he was President of the Thuringian State Bank , initially acting until June 1933.

On January 1, 1931 Demme joined the NSDAP (membership number 423 653). From 1931 to 1933 he was an assessor, then head of the Gau investigation and arbitration committee of the NSDAP. From 1934 he was an honorary member of the NSDAP Gauleitung in Thuringia and from 1937 until 1939 together with Otto Eberhardt , head of the department finance and capital of the Gauhauptamt for the four-year plan. From April 20, 1939 to April 12, 1945 he held the title of "Council of State" of the Thuringian state government. In 1943 he succeeded Walther Schieber as chairman of the board of directors of the Wilhelm Gustloff Foundation . He also had numerous mandates on supervisory boards, for example at the Deutsche Landesbankenzentrale in Berlin, and was a member of the advisory board of the Saxon State Bank in Dresden.

The US Army arrested Demme in Greiz on April 24, 1945 . This was followed by internment in various camps from which he was released on March 5, 1948. On April 22, 1948, his arbitration chamber proceedings in Hamburg-Bergedorf were set. On January 25, 1951 he was admitted to the bar at Herford District Court . He lived in Herford until 1968 and then moved to Oberlangenstadt .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Bernhard Post, Volker Wahl (Ed.): Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 (= publications from Thuringian state archives; 1). Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , p. 569.

personal data
SURNAME	Demme, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Life
DATE OF DEATH	April 19, 1969
Place of death	Lichtenfels

[Post-1] A ^b ^c ^d Bernhard Post, Volker Wahl (Ed.): Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 (= publications from Thuringian state archives; 1). Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , p. 569.