Otto Graf (politician, 1894)

Otto Graf (born December 20, 1894 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † July 23, 1953 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( BVP , NSDAP).

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After visiting humanistic schools in Ludwigshafen and Mannheim studied Count Law in Munich , Würzburg , and Heidelberg and graduated as Dr. jur. et. rer. pol . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a lieutenant in the reserve of the 2nd Bavarian Engineer Battalion , in which he was awarded the Bavarian Military Merit Order IV Class, the Iron Cross of Both Classes and the Golden Wedding Commemorative Medal of His Majesty King Ludwig III and the Palatinate medal and the wound badge was decorated in black.

In 1920 Graf became a trainee lawyer. In 1920 and 1921 he acted as a lawyer at the medium- sized company in Düren . From July 1, 1923 to March 31, 1924 he was employed by the Ludwigshafen district office. In April 1924 he supported the management of a Palatinate defense organization and was in an excellent position with regard to the organization of the separatist defense. He was expelled from the French occupation and sentenced on January 27, 1924 by the court martial of the Moroccan division in absentia to 20 years imprisonment for participating in the Palatine War. Graf participated in the assassination attempt on Franz Josef Heinz in Speyer on January 9, 1924 . In the same year he was appointed assessor at the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district office. In 1924 he came to Heidelberg and Ansbach as a government assessor . 1927 District Administrator and Councilor in Amberg and Regensburg .

From July 1932 to the summer of 1933, Graf sat for the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) and his constituency 25 (Lower Bavaria) in the Reichstag. Before the vote on the Enabling Act of March 24, 1933, Graf, at the instigation of his school friend Edgar Jung , who was then active against National Socialism, campaigned with Hans Ritter von Lex within the BVP parliamentary group for the rejection of this law. After he was unable to assert himself, however, he voted with the rest of the BVP parliamentary group in favor of the Enabling Act and thus helped to in fact hand over the legislative power completely to Adolf Hitler, to create the basis for the abolition of the separation of powers and all subsequent measures to consolidate it to enable the National Socialist dictatorship. On May 1, 1935, Otto Graf joined the NSDAP under membership number 3,654,669.

Fonts

• The law of the auditing associations , Würzburg s. a. (1920). (Dissertation)

Web links

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