Otto Friedrich Passehl

Otto Friedrich Passehl

Otto Friedrich Passehl (born July 5, 1874 in Gützkow , Greifswald district , † April 22, 1940 in Buchholz , Greifenhagen district ) was a German politician (SPD).

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Otto Friedrich Passehl was born in Gützkow in 1874 as the son of a shepherd . He attended elementary school in Greifswald. He then began training as a baker, but soon switched to an apprenticeship as a miller. In later years Passehl continued his education through self-tuition and by attending university courses.

As a young man, Passehl went traveling for several years as a journeyman at home and abroad, then from 1894 to 1906 he belonged to the | Infantry Regiment 61 in Thorn, after which he worked as a miller for a few years. In the early 1890s, Passehl also joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), in which he held numerous functions over the next forty years.

Passehl, who had been married since 1897, was involved in the labor movement in the following decades as a union and cooperative employee, as a labor secretary and as an editor in the social democratic press. From 1914 to 1918 Passehl took part in the First World War, in which he was promoted from Landwehrmann to officer deputy and company commander, received several war awards and returned home as a war victim.

After the end of the war and the establishment of the Weimar Republic , Passehl increasingly began to exercise public offices. So he officiated in the 1920s as a member of the district council and the district committee of Greifenhagen, as a board member of the Kreissparkasse and the administrative committee of the provincial bank of Pomerania. He was also a member of the District Committee of Szczecin, the Provincial Parliament and the Provincial Committee of Pomerania (Deputy Chairman). He was also the head of the community in Hoentrug-Buchholz in the Greifenhagen district, and a member of the administrative committee of the Pomeranian State Employment Office and the Pomeranian Finance Court. In addition, Passehl sat on the board of directors of the Pomeranian city ​​council and the Pomeranian fire society and in various tax committees and social advisory boards.

In May 1924 Otto Friedrich Passehl was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 6 (Pomerania) . In the years 1924 to 1933 he was re-elected a total of six times, so that he was a member of parliament without interruption until June 1933. In the Reichstag, Passehl devoted himself particularly to agricultural, social and local politics. In March 1933, Passehl, together with the other members of the SPD parliamentary group, voted against the Enabling Act .

After 1933 Passehl was temporarily arrested.

Fonts

• Ludwig Quessel. A portrait sketch . In: Socialist monthly books . No. 37, 1931, pp. 216-219.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Friedrich Passehl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto Friedrich Passehl in the database of members of the Reichstag