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Otto Eichenlaub (born January 26, 1898 in Ottersheim near Landau ; † May 6, 1954 in Hambach ) was a German politician ( BVP / CDU ) and journalist .

Life and work

Eichenlaub attended grammar schools in Landau and Speyer and, after graduating from high school, the Mannheim Commercial College. He completed his studies with a diploma examination. He was a soldier in the First World War (most recently a lieutenant). After the war he studied economics, law and philosophy at the universities of Würzburg, Halle, Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg. In 1921 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD and obtained a degree in economics. From 1922 he held a managerial position in the personnel and commercial management office of BASF and in 1925 became the business editor of the newspapers "Pfälzer Tagblatt", "Pfälzische Rundschau" and "General-Anzeiger". In 1939 he was dismissed as a journalist because of anti-regime sentiments and as a speaker at the IHK Ludwigshafen and then participant in the Second World War as a censorship officer. As such, he was on the staff of Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and was involved in the uprising of July 20, 1944. From 1947 he worked as an asset manager at the Süddeutsche Bank in Ludwigshafen. In 1953 he retired. During his studies he was involved in founding the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Churpfalz Mannheim involved in the Cartell Association in 1920. Otto Eichenlaub is the father of the former member of the Saarland state parliament and gallery owner Monika Beck and the grandfather of the Baden-Württemberg member of the state parliament and gallery owner Julia Philippi .

politics

Until 1933 he was a member of the BVP . In 1945 he became a member of the CDU. From 1945 to 1947 he was the successor to Hans Hoffmann, Upper Government President of Hesse-Palatinate and Palatinate . He was a member of the Mixed Commission and in 1946/47 a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. He also accompanied Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria on his journey through the Palatinate in 1949.

In addition, he worked as a portrait draftsman, landscape painter and sculptor.

Honors

• Commander of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great
• 1. Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Mainz
• Winner of the Kronprinz-Rupprecht medal in silver and bronze

Works

• German propaganda during World War I, Ludwigshafen 1938

literature

• Michael Pillower, Helmut Mathy: Ut omnes unum sint , Volume 2, pp. 22–32, (Volume 3 of: Contributions to the history of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ), Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3515087818 ; (Digital scan)
• Bruno Jahn: Die deutschsprachige Presse: Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch , S. 240, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3110961571 ; (Digital scan)
• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 , 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , p. 169.
• Hans-Peter Hexemer (Red.): 60 years of parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate. Ceremony on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the constitution of the Provincial Consultative Assembly on November 22nd, 2006 in the Koblenz City Theater (= Issue 33 of the series of publications of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament, ISSN  1610-3432 ). Mainz 2006, p. 73.
• Ulrich Springorum: Development and structure of the administration in Rhineland-Palatinate after the Second World War (1945-1947) , ISBN 9783428451289 , p. 119 ff., Online
• Otto Eichenlaub in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Visit to the Palatinate of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. In: DER SPIEGEL 43/1949. Der Spiegel, October 20, 1949, accessed on March 26, 2018 .