Otto Herrmann (politician, 1889)

Otto Herrmann (* 28. August 1889 in Rothenburg (Saale) , † 7. June 1976 in Kyhna ) was a German politician ( USPD , KPD , SED ) and 1929-1933 member of the Saxon Landtag and 1945-1951 District Administrator of the district Delitzsch .

Life

The son of a metallurgical worker learned the shoemaking trade from 1903 to 1907. After a year of wandering and military service in Leipzig from 1908 to 1910, Herrmann was employed from 1911 as a metal worker and later as a driver for the Leipzig tram . In 1912 he joined the union. From 1914 to 1918 he did military service again.

After the November Revolution, Herrmann joined the USPD for a short time and was a member (temporarily also chairman) of the Leipzig Workers 'and Soldiers' Council. In January 1919 he joined the KPD. Until he was dismissed for political reasons in 1924, Herrmann was a shop steward and later chairman of the works council at the Leipzig tram. He then ran a cigar shop in Leipzig until 1933. From 1920 to 1928 he belonged to the KPD faction in the Leipzig city council. Herrmann was a member of the International Workers Aid , the Red Aid , the Association of Proletarian Freethinkers, and from 1924 to 1929 also the Red Front Fighters League . Until 1928 Herrmann belonged to the Leipzig group of the ultra-left Weddinger opposition . From 1929 to 1933 he represented the KPD in the Saxon state parliament. There he was briefly secretary in 1930.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Herrmann initially went into hiding outside of Saxony, but was arrested on June 11, 1934 and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until 1936 . His son and wife were also temporarily detained. After his release, Herrmann was under police supervision. During this time he worked as a gardener in Kyhna. At the same time he worked for the Leipzig resistance group around Georg Schumann . From 1943 to 1945 he served in the Wehrmacht .

After a short period as a prisoner of war, Herrmann was first appointed mayor of Kyhna. In October 1945 he took over the office of district administrator for the Delitzsch district. After his replacement in December 1950, he was first plant manager of the VEB (K) Kreisbaubetriebs Delitzsch until 1953, then until his retirement in 1957 as manager of the HO . Otto Herrmann was buried in the honor grove of the Südfriedhof in Leipzig .

Honors

Herrmann received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in 1969 . In Delitzsch, today's Friedrich-Naumann-Strasse was named after him. In Kyhna the Polytechnic High School was named after him.

literature

Hans Schiedt: Otto Herrmann - Communist member of the state parliament, first communist district administrator in the Delitzsch district . In: Your memory should be preserved. Five life pictures from the ranks of proven communists in the Delitzsch district . Edited by the history commission of the SED district leadership Delitzsch 1986, pp. 3–10.
Herrmann, 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 .

Individual evidence

↑ Herrmann, Otto. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on November 6, 2016 .
↑ According to the handbook German Communists and Martin Schumacher (ed.): MdL Das Ende der Parliaments 1933 and the members of the regional parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic during the National Socialist era: Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical index . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 65, Herrmann was imprisoned in Sachsenburg concentration camp , according to Schiedt, who relies on cadre documents, in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

personal data
SURNAME	Herrmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon MP
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rothenburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH	June 7th 1976
Place of death	Kyhna

[1] Herrmann, Otto. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on November 6, 2016 .

[2] According to the handbook German Communists and Martin Schumacher (ed.): MdL Das Ende der Parliaments 1933 and the members of the regional parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic during the National Socialist era: Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical index . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 65, Herrmann was imprisoned in Sachsenburg concentration camp , according to Schiedt, who relies on cadre documents, in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.