Otto Förster (politician)

Otto Förster (born April 25, 1891 in Mülbitz , † December 1, 1979 in East Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Förster attended elementary school and became a cigar maker. Due to spinal polio, he was exempt from military service.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was arrested in February 1933, Erfurt and three months in " protective custody detained". He stood in the era of National Socialism under constant police surveillance. From 1938 to 1945 he worked as an auditor in the Gummifabrik AG in Leipzig.

From August 1944 to December 1944 he was imprisoned again as part of the grate action and was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp . After his release, he was assigned to the Volkssturm and again briefly arrested by the Gestapo in early April 1945 and released on the day of the occupation by the US Army. 1945 to 1947 he worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn. In 1947 he became deputy director of SVK Erfurt, in 1952 wage calculator at VEB Anlagebau Erfurt and from 1953 to 1955 teacher at the party school in Naumburg. In 1955 he became a training officer at the council of the Meißen district and last lived in Berlin-Weißensee.

In 1906 he became a member of the German Tobacco Workers' Association. In 1908 he joined the SPD and switched to the KPD in 1919. He was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Saxony . This elected him in November 1921 as the successor to Wilhelm Osterburg in the Prussian State Council . He was a member of the State Council until February 1926. In 1928 he became a member of the SPD again and, after the forced unification, of the SED .

literature

• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , p. 43.