Otto Fröhmcke (politician)

Otto Friedrich Theodor Fröhmcke (born November 15, 1867 in Malchin , † November 24, 1941 in Neustrelitz ) was a German politician. From 1927 to 1932 he was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

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Otto Fröhmcke was the son of a painter. After attending elementary school , he completed an apprenticeship as a tailor in his native Malchin from 1882 to 1886. He then worked in Neustrelitz as a men's dressmaker, later also a court ladies' dressmaker and master tailor. In 1896 Fröhmcke married the tailor's daughter Ernestine, b. Otto (* 1871). The marriage had four children.

Fröhmcke was chairman of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz state association for handicrafts and trades. From 1927 he was an assessor at the regional labor court and from 1929 a member of the Neustrelitz District Administrative Court . He was also involved in local politics as a city ​​councilor for Neustrelitz.

From July 1927 to February 1932 Fröhmcke was a member of the fourth and fifth state parliaments of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Initially a representative of the VHG (Association for Crafts and Trades), he joined the parliamentary group in 1928 with the MPs Franz Gundlach ( DDP ), Roderich Hustaedt (DDP), Heinrich Jacobs (VHG), Bernhard Nebe (VdH) and Karl Rohde (VHG) Economic working group together. This merged in 1931 with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Mitte to form the Bürgerliche Mitte parliamentary group (BM), whose chairman was Fröhmcke.

On April 16, 1929, Fröhmcke was elected by the state parliament to one of two parliamentary state councilors in the State Ministry of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. These were assigned to the sole Minister of State Kurt von Reibnitz . The election of the Parliamentary Councilors of State was carried out when the government was formed on a proposal by Kurt Häntzschel , but in the following period led to disputes about their powers and electoral modalities. Finally, the State Ministry decided that the Parliamentary State Councilors should be appointed and voted out by the State Minister and only act as advisors. In 1931, Fröhmcke von Reibnitz, against whom a motion of no confidence ran, was dismissed from the position on December 4, 1931, but was reinstated on the same day by his successor Heinrich von Michael . When the government was reorganized, Michael appointed the NSDAP MP Fritz Stichtenoth to the Parliamentary State Council on April 7, 1932, and Fröhmcke resigned from office.

In March 1933, Fröhmcke could have moved into the state parliament again as Gundlach's successor ( 7th electoral term ), but refused the mandate.

In July 1934 Fröhmcke was sentenced to a fine by the Neustrelitz jury for breach of trust and fraud. He was accused of having taken advantage of his position as a representative of the tailors' guild by using an account of the guild for private purposes and charging too high prices for the uniforms supplied. Fröhmcke had to sell his house to pay the fine. Since he was boycotted by the NSDAP, he finally lost his men's tailoring business and ultimately lived on the income from a small tailor's shop. He died at the age of 74 from the aftermath of a stroke .

literature

• Fröhmcke, Otto In: Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. A biographical lexicon. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 , pp. 135-136.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fröhmcke, Otto In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 135.
2. ^ ^{A b} Fröhmcke, Otto In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 136.