Otto Graf (politician, 1892)

Otto Graf (born March 8, 1892 in Zamdorf , Bavaria , † September 1, 1971 in Munich ) was a German politician . He belonged first to the KPD and later to the SPD . Graf worked as a spy for the GDR under the code name "Herzog" .

Live and act

Graf was the son of a brickworks owner and attended a teachers' seminar after high school . Then he was a teacher, at times a private teacher . Before the First World War , Graf was a member of the Pan-German Association . During the war he was a soldier.

After the war, Graf worked as a teacher in Munich in 1919 and 1920. In 1919 he joined the KPD and worked in 1920 and 1921 as editor of the party newspaper Neue Zeitung . From 1920 to 1923 he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament and until 1921 also chairman of his party.

In 1921 he was expelled from the KPD and joined the SPD. Between 1922 and 1929 Graf worked for the workers' education cartel in Munich. He was then a writer and journalist until 1933. Among other things, he wrote for the Munich Post , the national newspaper published in Basel and the Vossische Zeitung in Berlin.

During the period of National Socialism , Graf was banned from working in 1933 and was imprisoned several times.

Between 1945 and 1946 he was a ministerial advisor and then until 1948 as a ministerial advisor in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, responsible for the public education department. In addition, Graf was State Commissioner for the University of Munich in 1946 and 1947 .

In 1949 , as a directly elected SPD candidate in the Munich-West constituency , Graf became a member of the German Bundestag , to which he belonged in the first legislative period. In 1953 he lost the constituency to the CSU and left the Bundestag, not on the state list .

In 2013, the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records (BStU) assumed that his espionage for the GDR was "a constant [...] but not very productive [...] and hardly controllable [...] cooperation". He is an example of "how SED and HV A succeeded in building on the common legacy of the labor movement in an SPD politician."

Otto Graf's estate is in the archive of social democracy in Bonn.

Works

• The first communist speech in the state parliament in Bavaria was given on July 22nd, 1920. Publishing house of the communist workers' bookshop. Party, Munich 1920.
• The Moroccan Wall. Gutenberg Book Guild, Berlin 1930.
• Imperium Britannicum. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Leipzig 1937.
• Art and society. Series of publications by IG Druck und Papier / Heft 18, Stuttgart 1969.
• Fever hours of world history. Series of publications by IG Druck und Papier / Heft 24, Stuttgart 1965.

literature

• Graf, Otto . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Ingelore Pilwousek (Eds.): Otto and Wolfgang Graf. Life in turbulent times 1900–2000. Aliteraverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-935877-88-9 .

Web links

• Otto Graf's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Otto Graf's biography . In: Database The Members of the German Bundestag 1949–2009 (Bumast)
• A book about the life of Otto Graf and his son Wolfgang
• Graf, Otto . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Gaa to Gymnich] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 393 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 297 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jahn authority exposes Stasi spies in the Bundestag . Time online. May 31, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
2. ^ The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. . The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic (BStU). November 8, 2013. Archived from the original on November 8, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2017.