Otto Eggerstedt

Otto Eggerstedt (1932 or earlier)

Otto Eggerstedtstraße (* 27. August 1886 in Kiel ; † 12. October 1933 in the concentration camp Esterwegen ), a German was politicians of SPD and a member of parliament from 1921 to 1933.

Life

Eggerstedt grew up in Kiel, trained as a baker and was a soldier in the First World War . From February to July 1919 he was the elected manager of the workers and soldiers council of Groß Kiel. He then became party secretary of the SPD in Kiel. Eggerstedt was a city councilor for Kiel from 1919 to 1924. In March 1921 he replaced Albert Billian in the Reichstag . He was a member of parliament until 1933. From 1927 he worked in the Prussian administration, from April 1928 as a councilor and head of the Wandsbek police office . From 1929 he became, for the first six months provisional, police chief of Altona-Wandsbek based in Altona .

On July 17, 1932, the day of the events of Altona Blood Sunday , Eggerstedt was at an election campaign event outside of Altona. Eggerstedt had also given his deputy free, but without informing his superior in Kiel, the district president. By approving and underestimating the NSDAP march, Eggerstedt was largely responsible for the course of events in Altona. The Altona Blood Sunday was subsequently used by Chancellor Franz von Papen as an occasion to accuse the Social Democratic Prussian government of being unable to maintain public order. With this accusation as a pretext, the so-called Preussenschlag was carried out, in which the elected Prussian government and its senior officials were deposed and replaced by a dictatorship headed by Papen. Eggerstedt was relieved of his office at the Prussian strike on July 20, 1932 and put into temporary retirement. After the " seizure of power " he was taken into " protective custody " on May 27, 1933 for an alleged violation of the press law and, after a brief detention in the Altona police prison, on August 12, 1933, on instructions from District President Anton Wallroth , transferred to the Esterwegen concentration camp . There he was repeatedly and severely mistreated and, at the request of the Gestapo control center in Osnabrück, shot while trying to escape . Eggerstedt was murdered by SA troop leaders Theodor Groten and Martin Eisenhut when he was carrying a heavy tree trunk with three other prisoners while working outside.

The proceedings against the two SA men were put down in 1933 and officially closed for lack of evidence. In 1949 Groten was sentenced to life in prison by the Oldenburg regional court for the murder of Eggerstedt. Eisenhut was reported missing during World War II and pronounced dead in 1955.

Honors

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

Stumbling stone in memory of Otto Eggerstedt

• Eggerstedtstraße in the old town of Altona and Eggerstedtstraße on the old market in Kiel are named after Otto Eggerstedt . A barracks in Pinneberg, which was called Eggerstedt barracks until it was rededicated , was not named after him.
• Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Eggerstedt near the Reichstag in Berlin .
• On August 12, 2007, a stumbling block by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig was laid in Kiel in memory of Otto Eggerstedt at Eichhofstrasse 12 .

literature

• Uwe Danker , Astrid Schwabe : Schleswig-Holstein and National Socialism. Neumünster 2005. ISBN 3-529-02810-X .
• Article Eggerstedt, Otto. In: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, on behalf of the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties, edited by Rudolf Morsey , Gerhard A. Ritter and Klaus Tenfelde , Volume 7). Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 (short version on the Internet as a biography of Otto Eggerstedt . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) ).
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Eggerstedt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto Eggerstedt in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Otto Eggerstedt in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
• Info about Otto Eggerstedt on the occasion of the laying of a stumbling block on August 2, 2007 in Kiel, ed. Working group for research into National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein eV (Akens) 2008 (PDF file; 279 kB)

References and comments

1. ↑ There was no joint workers 'and soldiers' council in Kiel. But we find this expression more often in common parlance also for Kiel. Eggerstedt is mentioned in the files of the Kiel Workers 'Council in April 1919 as the second chairman (Stadtarchiv Kiel Sign. 29685, files of the Magistrate of Kiel, concerning the accounts of the Workers' Council, p. 183). Eggerstedt is therefore assigned to the workers' council.
2. ^ Changes in the Reichstag Handbook 1920.
3. ^ Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich 1933-1940. 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-53833-5 , p. 363.
4. ↑ Uwe Danker and Astrid Schwabe: Schleswig-Holstein and National Socialism. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, page 127, ISBN 3-529-02810-X .
5. ↑ Dirk Lüerßen: We are the moor soldiers . The inmates of the early concentration camps in Emsland 1933 to 1936 - Biographical studies on the connection between the categorical assignment of the arrested, their respective forms of behavior in the camp and the effects of imprisonment on the further life story. Dissertation, University of Osnabrück 2001 ( full text as PDF (German National Library) ).
6. ↑ See Johannes Seifert: The construction of the Pinneberger barracks . In: VHS-Geschichtswerkstatt: Pinneberg - Historische Streiflichter (Pinneberg 2003), pp. 210-213, where it is stated that the barracks built by the National Socialists and put into operation in 1939 was called after the old place name Eggerstedt.
7. ↑ http://www.akens.org/akens/texte/stolpersteine/kiel_verdi/eggerstedt.pdf