Otto Hessler

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Otto Hessler (* 1891 in Berlin ; † in the 20th century ) was a German party functionary ( SPD / SED ) and Thuringian state parliament director .

Life

Hessler came from a social democratic working class family. His father was a toolmaker . After attending primary school, he learned the trades of toolmaker and mechanical engineer . After attending a trade school , he became a foreman . In 1907 he joined the Socialist Workers 'Youth (SAJ) and in 1908 the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). From 1915 to 1918 he had to take part in the First World War . In 1917 he joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and became secretary of its central management because he had good contacts with young workers. In 1921 he reached the position of secretary of the local committee in the ADGB of Berlin, at the same time he became head of their youth center. In 1922 he returned to the SPD. In 1927 he took on numerous other functions, including a. the management of trade union education . With his meritorious participation in the jury of an architectural tender and in the educational-technical preparation, the contract for the project planning of the first ADGB federal school was entrusted to the architect Hannes Meyer , so that the building could become a prime example of modern building culture . Hessler also expressed himself in the SPD press about his educational and political ideas. In early 1933 he published his views on a renewed vocational school system in the magazine “ Die Arbeit ” .

After the takeover by the NSDAP in 1933, he was arrested and remained some time in prison . In the following years he worked in various companies as a technical employee. To escape the increasing pressure from the Nazi rulers, he left for Thuringia in early 1945.

After the end of the Nazi dictatorship, he became a member of the Federation of Democratic Socialists (BDS) and then again in the SPD. Ernst Busse brought him to the Thuringian State Office of the Interior as head of department. In February 1947 he was appointed director of the Thuringian state parliament at the request of August Frölich . Since 1948, however, he came under strong ideological pressure from the SED leadership, so that he had to give up his office in 1950. At the beginning of 1951 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and got a position as head of department in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior .

Publications

  • Trade unions and vocational school , Berlin: Verlagsgesellschaft d. General German Trade Union Confederation, 1930

literature

  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = publications by the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Kleine Reihe Volume 29, p. 553

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 22, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tu-cottbus.de
  2. ↑ http://library.fes.de/cgi-bin/digiarb.pl?id=01348&dok=1933&f=193&l=200&c=193 Retrieved May 22, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Hessler, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party functionary (SPD / SED) and state parliament director
DATE OF BIRTH 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century