Otto Hill

Otto Max Hill (born December 7, 1894 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , † December 15, 1967 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

From 1901 to 1905 Hill attended elementary school, then from 1905 to 1911 the secondary schools in Schwäbisch Gmünd and Stuttgart . This was followed by commercial training in the family business. From 1914 he was a textile merchant at a cloth wholesaler in Stuttgart. In 1916 Otto Hill was drafted into military service, in 1917 he received EK II and the Württemberg silver military merit medal . He spent 1918 to 1920 in French captivity. In 1920 he joined his brother's company, where he became an authorized signatory in 1922 and a partner in 1923. At the same time, from 1923 on, he was a partner in Stuttgart Zigarettenfabrik Fortuna GmbH. Further stations in his professional career were from 1925 to 1927 sales manager at a chocolate factory in Stuttgart and from 1927 to 1928 organizational manager at the egg noodle factory Burkhardt KG in Ludwigsburg . In 1938 he became director of the Württembergische Landessparkasse and member of the Gau Chamber of Commerce .

politics

Originally a member of the DVP , he joined the NSDAP in 1925 ( membership number 5993). He received the gold party badge and the party service badge in bronze, silver and gold. Since 1928 he was a member, from 1934 to 1937 chairman of the district court of Württemberg-Hohenzollern. From 1938 to 1944 he was an honorary district inspector.

Hill was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg for a few months in 1933 .

After he had run unsuccessfully in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, he joined the National Socialist Reichstag on January 27, 1938 as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag in the process of replacing the MP Adolf Kling , in which he held constituency 31 until the end of the election period in May 1938 represented.

After the war, after 3 years of imprisonment and internment, he was sentenced on August 10, 1948 by the judges' chamber of the Ludwigsburg internment camp as the “main culprit” to three years in a labor camp, combined with confiscation of property, ten years of professional bans and the cost of 40,000 DM.

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 359 .
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
• Wolfgang Proske (Hrsg.): Nazi victims from eastern Württemberg (=  perpetrators - helpers - free riders . Volume 3 ). 2nd, revised edition. Kugelberg, Gerstetten 2014, ISBN 978-3-945893-02-9 , pp. 88 ff .