Otto Hess (politician, 1908)

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Otto Hess (born December 19, 1908 in Roßdorf (near Darmstadt) , † August 24, 1967 in Burgdorf ) was a German politician ( DRP , NPD ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Otto Hess was the nephew of Rudolf Hess and a friend of Adolf von Thadden .

Life

On June 21, 1935, Hess passed the major state examination for the judiciary and administration. On February 28, 1936, he entered the Reichsdienst and initially worked as an assessor at the Darmstadt district office until May 22, 1936 , and from May 12, 1936 to September 28, 1938 at the Darmstadt Gestapo . From September 29, 1936 to December 31, 1937 he was with the staff of the Deputy Leader , from January 1, 1938 with the staff of the Supreme SA leadership . On February 1, 1939, he was taken over as a government assessor by the regional president of Upper Bavaria , while at the same time he was assigned to the district administrator in Munich for business assistance. On April 10, 1942 he was promoted to the senior government council and at the same time seconded to the party chancellery; the day before, he left the Bavarian State Service. Since August 1, 1930 he was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 279.534) and worked as a Gauredner , district leader and SA-Oberführer (SA member since June 26, 1930).

Hess had been in the Wehrmacht since August 1939 . From April 1, 1940 he was in Battalion Staff II of Infantry Regiment 199 "List", from February 6, 1941 in Infantry Replacement Battalion 199 in Braunschweig. On February 19, 1942 he was transferred from Staff I of the 542 Infantry Regiment to the 2nd Company of the 542 Infantry Regiment. On July 20, 1943, he was transferred from Staff I of the 542 Grenadier Regiment to Grenadier Replacement Battalion 61 in Munich. According to a report dated May 22, 1943, Hess' highest known rank was Captain of the Reserve.

After the war, Hess worked as a freelance businessman in the real estate sector. In 1950 he helped found the German Reich Party and was its deputy chairman. From 1953 to 1958 he was state chairman of the DRP in Rhineland-Palatinate . In 1959, Hess ran for the DRP for the Lower Saxony state parliament, but failed because of the five percent hurdle newly introduced in Lower Saxony . He became a board member of the NPD, which was founded in 1964,   and from June 6, 1967 until his death on August 24, 1967, he became a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the NPD (6th electoral period) ; there he was a member of the Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Hess took his own life due to personal and financial problems. Der Spiegel described him as the "head of propaganda" and ideologue of the NPD.

literature

  • Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hanover 2012, p. 163 f., Landtag-niedersachsen.de (PDF).
  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 159.
  • With 90 members in the next Bundestag? In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1966, pp. 47 ( online interview with Otto Hess).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Final report of the historical commission to investigate possible Nazi past of later Lower Saxony state parliament members.
  2. ↑ Werner Smoydzin : NPD: history and environment of a party. Ilmgau-Verlag, 1967
  3. ↑ Otto Hess . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1958, pp. 68 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Constituency No. 7 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1959, p. 21 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Mentioned in BVerfG , decision of December 3, 1968, Az. 2 BvE 1, 3, 5/67, BVerfGE 24, 300 - lump sum for election campaign costs.
  6. ↑ Political parties / NPD: Pfefferkorns Guardian . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1967 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Died . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1967, p. 110 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heß, Otto (common alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DRP, NPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Roßdorf (near Darmstadt)
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1967
Place of death Burgdorf