Otto Etz

Otto Etz (born October 2, 1895 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 18, 1957 ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Hessian state parliament .

education and profession

Otto Etz was the son of the former Theobald Philipp Etz and his wife Sophie Katharine nee Euting. Otto Etz, who was a Protestant denomination (he later left the church), married Helene nee Hofmann in 1922/23 (born June 3, 1898 in Frankfurt am Main; † 1966/67) attended elementary school in Rödelheim from 1902 to 1910 , made From 1910 to 1913 an apprenticeship as a moulder at the Rödelheimer Ziegler-Werke, where he worked in the profession he had learned until 1931. From 1915 to 1918 he did military service . Since 1913 he was a union member of the German Metal Workers' Association. From 1925 to 1931 he was chairman of the works council of the Ziegler-Werke and an assessor at the labor court in Frankfurt am Main and a lay judge at the regional court in Frankfurt am Main . From 1932 he was unemployed. After the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933, he was arrested several times. From 1934 to 1939 he worked as a former at the United Deutsche Metallwerke (Heddernheimer Kupferwerke), from 1939 to 1941 at the Bockenheimer Eisengießerei and from 1941 to 1945 as a warehouse clerk at Auto Union Frankfurt am Main. After 1945 he worked as a municipal employee. He initially worked at the Frankfurt Health Department, from 1949 at the municipal accounting office and from 1956 in the housing office.

politics

Otto Etz had been a member of the SPD since 1918. In the SPD he was a member of the board of the local Frankfurt am Main association and department head of the Reichsbanners Schwarz-Rot-Gold . During the time of National Socialism he could not be politically active. Since 1945 he was again an active member of the SPD, member of the board of the local association Frankfurt am Main and district chairman in Frankfurt am Main-Rödelheim.

In 1933 he was a member of the Hessen-Nassau Municipal and Provincial Parliament for the Frankfurt district. From December 1, 1950 to November 30, 1954 he was a member of the Hessian state parliament and in 1954 a member of the 2nd Federal Assembly .

swell

• Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: The municipal parliament of the administrative district of Wiesbaden 1868–1933. Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pages 76-77.
• Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 243 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
• Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 123.

Web links

• Etz, Otto. Hessian biography. (As of October 18, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).