Otto Herzog (politician)

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Otto Herzog

Otto Friedrich Herzog (born October 30, 1900 in Zeiskam ; † May 6, 1945 in Breslau ) was a member of the Reichstag of the NSDAP and SA-Obergruppenführer .

Life

Coming from a middle-class family, Herzog began an apprenticeship in trade after attending elementary school and advanced training school in Landau in December 1916 , but switched to the non-commissioned officer school in Fürstenfeldbruck on June 1, 1917 . After the end of the First World War , Herzog joined the Epp Freikorps , with which he was involved in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic . After the Freikorps was dissolved, Herzog was taken over by the Reichswehr , where he was a non-commissioned officer in the 41st Rifle Regiment. Herzog was a member of the Reichskriegsflagge military association and was involved in the Hitler putsch in November 1923. As a participant in the coup, he was released from the Reichswehr in December 1923. Herzog was probably already in contact with the NSDAP at that time. From 1924 to 1929 he worked as a commercial assistant. 1930 married Herzog; The marriage, which was divorced in 1938, had one child.

Herzog joined the NSDAP in 1926. From 1927 he lived in the state of Oldenburg , where he led the NSDAP local group in Varel . From 1928 to 1929 he was managing director of the NSDAP regional leadership in Oldenburg ; from 1929 to 1933 he took over the office of Gau organization leader in Gau Weser-Ems. From 1930, Herzog worked full-time for the NSDAP. In 1933 and 1934, Herzog published the "Oldenburgische Staatszeitung".

From 1931 until the state was abolished in 1933, he was chairman of the NSDAP parliamentary group in the Oldenburg state parliament . In the Reichstag elections in July 1932 he was able to win a mandate, which he lost again in the November 1932 election. From March 1933 until the end of the National Socialist German Reich he was a member of the now insignificant Reichstag .

In 1928 at the latest, Herzog joined the SA , which he built up in the state of Oldenburg. From October 1, 1928 to September 30, 1929, he took over the leadership of SA Standard 18 and then until March 31, 1931 the SA Brigade Weser-Ems. In addition, he was from October 1, 1928 to April 1, 1931 Gausturmführer for the Gau Weser-Ems, then until August 9, 1938 leader of the SA sub-group Weser-Ems. In the SA, Herzog was promoted several times: on April 1, 1930 to SA-Standartenführer, on April 1, 1931 to SA-Oberführer , on April 1, 1933 to SA-Gruppenführer and on November 9, 1938 to SA-Obergruppenführer . On July 10, 1934, Herzog took over the leadership of the SA group “Silesia” in Breslau as the successor to Edmund Heines, who was murdered in the so-called Röhm Putsch . On May 1, 1936, he became staff leader of the Supreme SA leadership ; on June 15, 1939, Herzog returned to his old office in Breslau. On February 1, 1942, he became inspector of the Mountain SA.

Herzog was wounded in 1940 during a war effort on the Western Front . In the final phase of the Second World War, Breslau was surrounded by the Red Army in February 1945. Herzog stayed in Wroclaw, which was declared a "fortress", and was in command of the Volkssturm units there . On the day of the surrender of Wroclaw, he committed suicide .

The historian Werner Vahlenkamp characterizes Herzog as a former Freikorps fighter who “belonged to the group of particularly brutal and fanatical National Socialists” and “was uncritically linked to the party throughout his life”.

Awards

literature

Web links

  • Otto Herzog in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vahlenkamp, Herzog , p. 309 (pdf, 12.3 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duke, Otto Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, SA-Obergruppenführer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeiskam
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1945
Place of death Wroclaw