Otto Freitag (politician)

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Otto Freitag (born February 17, 1888 in Hamburg ; † February 1963 in Dresden ) was a Saxon politician ( DVP , Eastern CDU ) and a member of the People's Chamber .

Friday attended preschool and secondary school in Hamburg . He completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1902 and worked as a freelance businessman in the wood industry, mainly in the wood processing industry in Hamburg, Niedersedlitz near Dresden , Nuremberg and Limmersdorf near Bayreuth . Before the First World War he belonged to young liberal circles. In 1921 he joined the German People's Party and was a member of the central board of this party.

After World War II he joined in July 1945, who was then only just launched CDU in Dresden when, in 1946 as deputy chairman of the state committee of the CDU of Saxony and the Saxon parliament elections in 1946 in the Saxon parliament elected. On December 10, 1948, the Saxon state parliament elected him as a representative of the state of Saxony in the expanded German Economic Commission . After Hugo Hickmann's disempowerment , he was appointed provisional state chairman of the CDU Saxony on January 29, 1950, and his successor as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament on February 15, 1950. On March 6, 1950, he was elected vice-president of the Saxon state parliament. In June 1950 he was replaced by Josef Rambo in the office of state chairman and again deputy party chairman.

In the Saxon Landtag "election" in 1950 he was sent again to the Saxon parliament in which he once again to the leader of the block party conformist was CDU. In March 1948 he became a member of the German People's Council and in 1949 the People's Chamber (until 1954). From November 1949 he was a member of the Standing Committee for Economic and Financial Matters of the People's Chamber. Friday belonged to the state parliament until the dissolution of the states in the summer of 1952 and was then a member of the Dresden district assembly . At the same time he was a member of the CDU district executive from 1952 until his death. Freitag, who was a member of the main board of the CDU until 1956, was confirmed as a member of the party's political committee in June 1953 "in view of his longstanding service to the work of the party" by the main board of the CDU.

Freitag died shortly before the age of 75 and was buried in the Johannis cemetery in Dresden.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Our candidates on October 15, 1950 . in: Neue Zeit , October 7, 1950, p. 4.
  2. ^ The country representatives in the DWK . In: Neue Zeit, December 11, 1948, p. 2.
  3. ^ Resolution of the Political Affairs Committee . In: Neues Deutschland , January 30, 1950, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Otto Freitag took over the chairmanship . In: Neues Deutschland, February 16, 1950, p. 2.
  5. ^ CDU in the Saxon state parliament . In: Neue Zeit, March 7, 1950, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Rambo, Freitag and Dedek elected to the board . In: Neue Zeit, June 27, 1950, p. 2.
  7. ^ The committees of the People's Chamber . In: Neues Deutschland, November 11, 1949, p. 2.
  8. ^ Meeting of the main board of the CDU . In: Neue Zeit, June 27, 1953, p. 1.
  9. ^ Union friend Otto Freitag died in Dresden . In: Neue Zeit, February 14, 1963, p. 1.
  10. ^ Last escort for Otto Freitag . In: Neue Zeit, February 20, 1963, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Friday, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon politician (DVP, CDU), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 1963
Place of death Dresden