Otto Hugo
Otto Hugo (born April 22, 1878 in Essen , † February 1, 1942 in Osnabrück ) was a German politician, co-founder of the German People's Party ( DVP ) and lobbyist of the Rhenish-Westphalian heavy industry .
Life and work
Otto Hugo grew up in the early days of the German Empire on the son of the in Quakenbrück make Prussian ways builder Carl Heinrich Hugo (1838-1900) and Christine Marie Wilhelmine (1851-1885), daughter of farmers Vehring in Bad Essen.
After graduating from high school, Hugo, who was of Protestant faith, studied chemistry , economics and history in Marburg and Münster , where he also received his doctorate in philosophy in 1905 . In 1900 he became a member of the Arminia Marburg fraternity .
In 1907 Otto Hugo married Grete (1884–1953), daughter of the Quakenbrück businessman Martin Eiben Preemann, with whom he had a son and two daughters.
From 1912 until the First World War in 1916, Hugo worked as editor-in-chief of the Hannoverscher Courier newspaper published in Hanover by the Jänecke brothers . He then moved to Berlin , from where he was in charge of the National Liberal Party for the entire German Reich.
After working in industry, he was managing director of the Bochum Chamber of Industry and Commerce from 1924 and also managing director of the Westphalia-Lippe Chamber of Commerce from 1935. His attempt to take over the management of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in May 1933 failed, however. Because of disrespectful remarks about Adolf Hitler and his good contacts with the Mayor of Leipzig, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , he had to give up his economic offices in 1939 and was temporarily imprisoned.
His grave (now closed) was in the evangelical cemetery in Quakenbrück .
Political party
Hugo belonged to the National Liberal Party during the German Empire . In 1918 he played a decisive role in the transformation of this party into the German People's Party . At the end of the Weimar Republic , Hugo, who belonged to the right wing of the party, was deputy party chairman. After the March elections in 1933 he spoke out in favor of joining the DVP to the NSDAP , which the party chairman Eduard Dingeldey refused. When the DVP finally disbanded in June 1933 under pressure from the National Socialists , Hugo immediately joined the NSDAP .
MP
Hugo was a member of the Weimar National Assembly for the German People's Party in 1919/20 . He was then a member of the Reichstag until 1933 . In the Reichstag he appeared as an important lobbyist for the heavy industry in Rhenish and Westphalia.
Publications
- Erzberger ripe for the state court . In: Heidelberger Zeitung, August 15, 1919.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 410-411.
- Barbara Gerstein: Hugo, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 28 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 97.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Hugo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Otto Hugo in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Barbara Gerstein: Hugo, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 28 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. S. 216.
- ^ Otto Hugo (Red): New Hanover. Festschrift of the Hannoversche Couriers for the consecration of the town hall in 1913 , Hannover: Gebrüder Jänecke, 1913, p. 19
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hugo, Otto |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DVP), MdR |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1878 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1942 |
Place of death | Osnabrück |