Otto Dreyer (politician)

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Otto Dreyer

Otto Dreyer (born October 15, 1903 in Gollenberg ; † August 23, 1986 there ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After elementary school , the farmer's son Dreyer attended the Birkenfeld agricultural school from 1925 to 1927 and then received an agricultural training in his parents' business. In 1930 he took over his parents' farm and worked as a farmer in Gollenberg. In October 1931 he married.

From October 1930 Dreyer advised the NSDAP in the Birkenfeld district on agricultural issues. In March 1931 he joined the Sturmabteilung (SA); in October 1931 he officially became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 456.718). Until 1933 he was Gau speaker and agricultural Gau consultant for the Gau Koblenz - Trier . From 1932 to 1933 Dreyer was a NSDAP member of the Birkenfeld region in the Oldenburg state parliament .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Dreyer was Gauamtsleiter of the Office for Agricultural Policy in Gau Koblenz-Trier from 1933 to 1945 . From December 1933 he was head of the state department of the Rhineland farmers' union, a function in which he organized the summary of the previous agricultural organizations in the Reichsnährstand . From November 1933 until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945, Dreyer was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 21 (Koblenz-Trier) . From 1942 he was the country's farmer's leader in the Moselland farming community. Dreyer also held several functions in the cooperative system, including as President of the Raiffeisenverband Westmark eV In May 1936, he joined the Schutzstaffel (SS-No. 276.594), in which he was last promoted to Obersturmbannführer on April 20, 1939 .

During the Second World War Dreyer belonged to the Waffen-SS and in 1943 reached the rank of Obersturmbannführer. Shortly after the German attack on the Soviet Union , on June 27, 1941, Dreyer was appointed war deputy head of the Task Force East; he headed the chief agriculture group of the Caucasus Economic Inspectorate . Back in the Rhineland in November 1943, as part of his activities for the Reichsnährstand, he took over the management of the Provincial Nutrition Office under the President of the Rhine Province.

After the end of the war, Dreyer was interned for three years; then he managed his farm in Gollenberg. During the denazification in November 1949, Dreyer was classified as a "minor offender" by the Koblenz Chamber of Justice.

In 1952 Dreyer was elected to the local council and was local mayor of Gollenberg from 1955 to 1974. With his own independent list of farmers ( Dreyer list ), he sat in the district council of the Birkenfeld district for 18 years . In 1962 he became chairman of the Birkenfeld district farmers' association and did voluntary work in the Chamber of Agriculture . He promoted land consolidation measures and worked for several years at the Rhineland-Palatinate Landsiedlung and a member of the State Planning Council and the Advisory Board for Land Care of the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Agriculture.

Because of his services to agriculture, Otto Dreyer was appointed economics councilor by Prime Minister Helmut Kohl in 1974.

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 , p. 113 .
  • Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 28) Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7758-1407-2 , pp. 189–191.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Fritz Licht: Ökonomierat Otto Dreyer ; in: Heimatkalender 1988 Birkenfeld district, page 184f.
personal data
SURNAME Dreyer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Gollenberg
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1986
Place of death Gollenberg