Otto Hemmann

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Otto Hemmann (born December 16, 1891 in Gera ; † after 1974) was a German trade unionist and politician . From 1960 to 1963 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Hemmann, the son of a worker, attended elementary school and learned the trade of beer brewer in Neustadt an der Orla from 1906 to 1909 . Years of traveling took him to Schleswig-Holstein , Dortmund and Thale and in 1911 back to his hometown. He joined the trade union in 1907 and in 1911 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Until 1913 he was active in the Gera Workers' Committee, a forerunner of the works council.

After the First World War he became chairman of the works council in the Gera brewery. During these years he began his career as a union official. He attended the school of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) and became secretary of the union of brewers, millers, bakers and butchers in the Gera district. In 1930 Hemmann went to Berlin as secretary of the main board of the food and enjoyment union. On May 2, 1933, the National Socialists drove him out of his elected mandate. He couldn't find a job and got by as a grocer. From 1939 until the end of the war, the Nazis forced him to serve in an epidemic hospital.

After the defeat of the Hitler regime in 1945 he became a member of the SPD and the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) again. From 1946 he was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and chairman of the Berlin trade union Food and Enjoyment. From November 30, 1948 to February 23, 1950, he was the successor to Waldemar Schmidt in the Berlin magistrate as a councilor for labor. On April 1, 1950 he took over the chairmanship of the Berlin trade union for food, enjoyment and trade until 1958. After his resignation he remained a member of the central board and the Berlin board of the union. He was also the chairman of the Working Group of Honored Union Veterans.

From 1954 to 1963 he was a member of the Berlin city council and chairman of the permanent labor commission. In 1954, the city council sent him to the GDR Land Chamber as Berlin representative , to which he belonged until it was dissolved in 1958. At the beginning of October 1960, he became a Berlin representative in the People's Chamber of the GDR in place of the late union official Josef Orlopp . In January 1962 he followed Orlopp as a member of the legal committee of the People's Chamber.

Hemmann was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1956 . He received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in 1961 and 1971. He last lived as a veteran in Berlin-Weißensee . He had one last public appearance in January 1974 when he attended a ceremony at which Konrad Naumann presented young Berlin workers, apprentices and schoolchildren with the SED candidate card.

literature

  • Federal Ministry for all German issues (ed.): SBZ biography. A biographical reference book on the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn 1964, pp. 141f.
  • Martin Broszat and Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945 - 1949 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 926.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The interlocutor . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 24, 1960, p. 3.
  2. ^ Resolution of the secretariat of the FDGB federal executive board of October 1, 1960 - BArch DY 34/24729.
  3. ↑ Mandate changes . In: Neues Deutschland , January 25, 1962, p. 2.
  4. ↑ 91 young Berliners became candidates . In: Berliner Zeitung, January 23, 1974, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Hemmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH after 1974