Otto Engelbrecht

Otto Engelbrecht

Otto Engelbrecht (born June 7, 1896 in Murnau , † November 17, 1970 in Hausham ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

After attending primary school and secondary school, Otto Engelbrecht learned the trade of a businessman. From 1914 to 1918 he participated as a war volunteer in the First World War, in which he was injured. Immediately after the war Engelbrecht began to get involved in circles of the political right: 1918/1919 he was a member of the Thule Society . He also joined the Epp Freikorps , with which he participated in the smashing of the Munich Soviet Republic . In 1920 he fought with the Freikorps Oberland against the communist uprisings during the Ruhr uprising .

Engelbrecht joined the NSDAP in 1923. On November 9, 1923, he took part in the failed Hitler-Ludendorff putsch . After the re-admission of the NSDAP in the spring of 1925, Engelbrecht joined it again: from 1925 to 1927 he acted as local group leader in Murnau, then from 1927 to 1930 as district leader and finally from 1930 as district leader of the NSDAP. In 1931 Engelbrecht was the main defendant in the Murnauer Saalschlacht trial. In 1933 he took over the office of a special representative of the party in the Weilheim district office and from 1934 was the organization leader of the National Socialist War Victims' Assistance (NSKOV) . From 1936 he was the representative of the Reichskriegsopferführer in the main office for war victims at the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. At NSKOV himself he was again head of office.

In his function as head of the NSKOV, he ran on the nomination of the NSDAP on the list position No. 213 in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936. Engelbrecht was not elected to the National Socialist Reichstag .

On December 9, 1938 Engelbrecht came after replacement for the deceased deputies Lindenfels one as a deputy in the Nazi Reichstag, where he remained until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a representative of the constituency 3 (East Berlin).

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic 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 . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
• Douglas G. Morris: Justice Imperiled. The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany . University of Michigan Press, 2005, p. 274

Web links

• Otto Engelbrecht in the database of members of the Reichstag