Otto Hue

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Otto Hue

Otto Hue [ ˈhuːə ] (born November 2, 1868 in Hörde , today Dortmund , † April 19, 1922 in Essen ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).

life and work

Hue grew up in a working-class family in poor conditions and lost his father at the age of six. After training as a locksmith, he worked in various iron and steel works in the Ruhr area between 1882 and 1895. When he was around 20, Hue became a social democrat. From the beginning of the 1890s he wrote articles for the Deutsche Berg- und Hüttenarbeiter-Zeitung (later the Bergarbeiter-Zeitung ), of which he became editor-in-chief in 1895. Until 1922 he remained an employee of the miners' association.

Although formally an editor, Hue was of considerable importance for the development of the union as the reorganizer of the “ Alten Verband ” (the free-trade union miners' organization). Even if he had never been a miner himself, he was soon known as the “miners' spokesman”. He also made a name for himself as a book author.

For the constituency of Bochum - Gelsenkirchen he was elected to the Reichstag in 1903 , to which he belonged until 1911. From 1913 to 1918 he was a representative in the Prussian House of Representatives . Even if he achieved some reforms, he was regarded within the party as a "neutrality drummer and compromiser". At the beginning of the war in 1914, he took part in the course of the party executive. Like him, he had been in favor of a mutual agreement since 1917.

From 1904 to 1917 Hue was leader of the miners' unions and secretary of the Miners International .

After the First World War , Hue had a great influence on the domestic and social policy decisions. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian state constitutional assembly and in 1921/22 a member of the Prussian state parliament . He was a member of the Weimar National Assembly , an alderman in the Prussian Ministry of Commerce, Reich Commissioner for Rhenish-Westphalian coal mining and from 1920 until his death a member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic . Hue rejected the drastic changes demanded by some - also in the SPD - such as the immediate socialization of mining. In terms of foreign policy, he campaigned for an understanding with the former war opponents.

His final resting place is in the southwest cemetery in Essen . In his honor and in his memory, some streets in the Ruhr area, z. B. in Essen, Hattingen, Lünen , Kamen, Ahlen, Marl and Bochum, and in the Rhineland, z. B. in Frechen, named after him.

Works

  • The miners. Historical representation of the conditions of miners from the oldest to the most recent times. Two volumes. Dietz, Stuttgart 1910-1913.

literature

  • Nikolaus Osterroth : Otto Hue. A picture of life for his friends. Edited by the board of directors of the Association of Miners in Germany. Printed by H. Hannsmann & Co., Bochum 1922. Digitized
  • Helga Grebing :  Hue, Otto (actually Konrad). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 710 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karl Lauschke: Otto Hue - spokesman for the miners. In: Bernd Faulenbach et al. (Hrsg.): Social democracy in change. The district of Western Westphalia 1893–2001. 4th expanded new edition. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89861-062-4 , p. 54f.
  • Johann Mugrauer: Otto Hue (1868–1922). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien. Volume I. Aschendorff, Münster 1931, pp. 160-175.
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 94f.

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personal data
SURNAME Hue, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hue, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Hear
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1922
Place of death eat