Otto Hillebrecht

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Otto Hillebrecht as a student in Göttingen in 1904.

Otto Hillebrecht (born July 16, 1886 in Göttingen , † August 21, 1971 in Göttingen) was a German lawyer and member of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

Hillebrecht was born in 1886 as the son of a landowner in Göttingen, where he studied law and folk studies at the Georg-August University after finishing school . In 1904 he became a member of the Holzminda Göttingen fraternity . After completing his exams and doctorate in 1910, he first worked at the German Crafts and Trades Day in Hanover and then went to the Bremen Chamber of Commerce as a research assistant in 1913 , where he specifically campaigned for the interests of the retail trade. Then he worked for the heads of the merchant class in Stettin .

In 1914 he volunteered as a war volunteer in the First World War ; at the end of the war in 1918, he held the rank of officer . He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class. From 1919 to 1922 he worked as a lawyer at the Chamber of Commerce in Liegnitz , but then returned to Bremen , where he became the managing director of the Chamber of Commerce, later the retail department of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce.

From November 1922 to the end of 1932 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship, at times as a member of the Presidium. The sober skepticism that he expressed and openly expressed towards the ideologies of National Socialism cost him his position at the Bremen Chamber of Commerce in April 1933. During the Second World War he was, among other things, Wehrmacht welfare and supply officer for three years.

After the war he worked in his old position in Bremen until he retired. In addition, he was second chairman of the Bremer Trabrenn-Gesellschaft for several years after the war . Otto Hillebrecht later returned to his birthplace in Göttingen, where he died in 1971 at the age of 85.

Publications

  • The violation of the obligation to notify under the Reich Law on Insurance Contracts. Kaestner, Göttingen 1910 ( dissertation , University of Gießen, 1910).

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , p. 406.
  • Karl-August Franke (Ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda Göttingen. Born in 1971, Letter, pp. 57–58.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 198.
  2. ↑ B. Lundius (Ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda Göttingen. Born 1919, Altona-Ottensen, p. 27.
  3. ↑ See Political Almanac. Yearbook of Public Life, Economy and Organization. Koehler, Leipzig 1925, p. 279 ( online at Google books ).
  4. ^ Fritz Peters: Bremen between 1933 and 1945. A chronicle. Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86741-373-2 , p. 21 (reprint of the original edition, Bremen 1951; online at Google books).
personal data
SURNAME Hillebrecht, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdBB
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1971
Place of death Goettingen