Otto Friedrich (politician)

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Senator Otto Friedrich

Gustav Adolf Otto Friedrich (born November 3, 1869 in Lindau near Zerbst , † February 13, 1955 in Lübeck ) was a German journalist and senator of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Otto Friedrich was born the son of a master blacksmith. He came to Lübeck in 1894 as the chief editor of the social democratic Lübecker Volksbote . As such, he went through some difficult times due to convictions for press misconduct. The "Lübecker Volksbote" removed him from his office there in 1904.

Until 1908 he worked in Breslau , from 1908 to 1919 Friedrich worked first in Zwickau and then in Braunschweig ( Braunschweiger Volksfreund ) as a social democratic editor. From October 11, 1919, he was again in charge of the “Lübecker Volksbote”. He did so until his election to the Senate. In 1921 the Social Democrat was elected Senator of the "Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck".

Especially with his non-partisan behavior in the troubled August days of 1923, Friedrich incurred the anger of authoritative comrades. The fight against the police that was sparked at that time, which Senator Friedrich headed as deputy police chief in the absence of Senator Fritz Mehrlein as chief, thus received its late victim. The fact that he did not act aggressively at the time, undeterred by party opposition, but rather appropriately, was something that Lübeckers who were not one-sided in party politics forgot and re-elected him to the Senate in 1925. It was not to come to that, however, because the Social Democratic Party exercised its influence and he “voluntarily” retired on April 24, 1925, as the number of full-time senators in Lübeck was reduced.

Fonts

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling , Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 1041
  • Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 85 ff
  • City Papers ; No. 17, year 1925, issue of May 10, 1925, article: Senator Otto Friedrich.

Individual evidence

  1. It should be his own former paper that directed the sharpest attacks against him and worked most towards his removal from the Senate.