Otto Kamps

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Otto Kamps (* 1895 ; † after 1950) was a German politician ( LDP ). He was Minister of the State Government of Saxony-Anhalt and Member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Kamps, a qualified engineer by profession , worked as director of the light metal works in Merseburg after the Second World War . In 1945 he became a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and served from November 1946 to 1949 as treasurer of the LDPD state executive committee for Saxony-Anhalt .

On December 14, 1948, he and Walter Ulbricht , Erhard Hübener and others were elected by the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt as one of 12 representatives of the state in the German Economic Commission. In February 1949 he was appointed to the executive board of the LDP. In March 1948 he became a member of the 1st People's Council of the SBZ , in May 1949 of the 2nd People's Council of the SBZ and after the founding of the GDR in October 1949 of the Provisional People's Chamber . Here he was a member of the Standing Committee on Economic and Financial Matters.

After the accidental death of Minister Martin Wiegel at the end of June 1949, Kamps was confirmed as Minister for Trade and Supply of the State of Saxony-Anhalt in the Hübener government by the 46th full session of the State Parliament . When the National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany was constituted on February 3, 1950, he became a member of the National Council and was confirmed as a member in August 1950.

In March 1950, he was elected to succeed Erich Damerow , the resigned state chairman, at an extraordinary meeting of the LDP state executive committee for Saxony-Anhalt . In May 1950, he made an appearance alongside Ludwig Landwehr and Hans Ziegler at a state peace congress in Hanover . After GDR Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl's criticism of his office as Minister for Trade and Supply in Saxony-Anhalt, he asked at a meeting of the LDP state executive in September 1950 to release him from the position of first chairman of the state association due to his excessive workload. The previous deputy chairman Ernst Lorenz was confirmed as acting chairman . Kamps fled to the Federal Republic in September 1950 .

literature

  • Harald Krieg: LDP and NDP in the »GDR« 1949–1958 . Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne and Opladen 1965, ISBN 978-3-663-03152-9 , p. 71.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 374 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Representatives of the federal states in the DWK . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 15, 1948, p. 2.
  2. ↑ The same food menu for everyone! . In: Neue Zeit from July 1, 1949, p. 2.
  3. ^ The members of the National Council . In: Neues Deutschland , February 4, 1950, p. 2.
  4. ^ Members and Presidium of the National Council . In: Neues Deutschland , August 27, 1950, p. 6.
  5. ↑ Change in Saxony-Anhalt's LDP . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 30, 1950, p. 2.
  6. ^ Lower Saxony State Peace Congress in Hanover . In: Neues Deutschland , Sat. May 20, 1950, p. 2.
  7. ↑ New LDP chairman . In: Neue Zeit , September 24, 1950, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Kamps, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (LDPD)
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
DATE OF DEATH after 1950