Otto Hergt

Otto Hergt

Otto Hergt (born August 9, 1897 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; † declaration of death at the end of 1945 ) was a German politician (NSDAP).

Live and act

Hergt attended elementary school . He then worked in agriculture. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a front-line fighter .

In 1924 Hergt became a member of the National Socialist Freedom Party , a substitute party for the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), which was banned at the time . After the re-establishment of the NSDAP in 1925, he joined it. Hergt initially took over the post of political leader in Gau Pomerania for his party . In 1930 he was appointed deputy Gauleiter for Pomerania. He also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA).

In the general election of September 1930 Hergt was 6 (Pomerania) as a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency in the parliament elected. His mandate was confirmed in the following four elections - July 1932, December 1932, March 1933 and November 1933. Overall, he was a member of the Berlin parliament for almost six years until March 1936. The most important parliamentary event in which Hergt took part during his time as a member of parliament was the passing of the Enabling Act in March 1933. This law, which was also passed with Hergt's vote, formed the legal basis for the establishment of the National Socialist dictatorship.

Hergt was pronounced dead after World War II, with 1945 set as the year of his death.

literature

• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth certificate Charlottenburg No. 3056/1897
2. ↑ Robert Thévoz / Hans Branig: Pommern 1934/35 in the mirror of Gestapo reports and factual files , 1974, p. 290.