Otto Kresse

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Otto Kresse (born January 6, 1886 in Felgeleben ; † March 12, 1933 there ) was a German local politician ( SPD ) and trade unionist . After the mayor of Staßfurt , Hermann Kasten , Kresse was the second murder victim that the Schönebecker SPD had to complain about after the National Socialists “ seized power ” .

Life

Kresse learned in the National Radiator mbH ( NARAG ) Schoenebeck the profession of locksmith . From 1904 he was organized in a union and in 1906 he joined the SPD. He was one of the co-founders of the Workers' Gymnastics Association in Felgeleben. During the First World War he was one of the co-founders of the USPD in the district of Calbe a./S. In 1918/19 he was a member of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Schönebeck.

In 1919, Kresse was elected to the local council and chairman of the Workers' Gymnastics Association in Felgeleben. He was also chairman of the works council at NARAG, but was fired there after he had been at the head of a strike . In 1920 he was elected to the tripartite committee that was responsible for the local leadership of the fight against the Kapp putschists in Schönebeck . He later became a full-time cashier for the German Metalworkers' Association in Schönebeck. In 1920 he went back to the SPD from the USPD. He was one of the founders of the Weitstoss GmbH playground cooperative and the Heimstätte building and savings cooperative in Felgeleben and was their first chairman. After the incorporation of Felgeleben in 1923, he became city councilor and councilor for housing in Schönebeck. Cress was particularly hated by the National Socialists because of his consistent stance against fascism.

After the Reichstag fire on the night of February 27th to 28th, 1933, the National Socialists stormed the metalworker's office in Schönebeck and searched for cress. Kresse managed to evade the planned arrest. When he wanted to take part in the counting of votes after the local elections on March 12, 1933, SA men ambushed him at the entrance to the Felgeleber polling station, pushed him into an adjoining room and murdered him. The entire magazine of a Mauser 7.65 mm was fired empty at him.

Honors

  • After 1945 the settlement in Felgeleben, the construction of which he had initiated as a city councilor for road and housing construction, was named after him, as was an agricultural production cooperative and a street in Schönebeck.
  • A plaque commemorates him at the former “August Bebel” comprehensive school on Schulstrasse in Felgeleben.

literature

  • Walter Blumenthal: In the spirit of Lenin. From the life of fighters of the workers' movement in the Schönebeck district . Commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the secretariat of the district leadership of the SED Schönebeck (Elbe) 1970, p. 24.
  • Anna Dora Miethe: Memorials. Labor movement. Anti-fascist resistance. Building socialism . Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1974, pp. 254f.
  • Christl Wickert , executive committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (ed.): Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century . Marburg, Schüren 2000, ISBN 3-89472-173-1 , p. 187.
  • Ulrike Puvogel, Martin Stankowski: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism. Documentation II: Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2000, p. 585f.
  • Beatrix Herlemann : “We stayed what we always were, Social Democrats.” The resistance behavior of the SPD in the party district of Magdeburg-Anhalt against National Socialism 1930–1945 . (= Studies on regional history. Vol. 6). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2001, ISBN 3-89812-108-9 , pp. 74 and 80.
  • Martin Wiehle : Borders Personalities. Biographical lexicon of the Magdeburger Börde (= contributions to the cultural history of the Magdeburger Börde and its peripheral areas. Vol. 6). Dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 2001, ISBN 3-935358-20-2 , p. 89f.
  • Hans-Joachim Geffert: Kresse, Otto. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 ( article online ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Wickert (2000) only on January 6, 1889 in Salzelmen
  2. ^ According to Wickert (2000) not until 1922.
  3. ^ Günter Kuntze: Under repealed rights . Helmuth-Block-Verlag, Magdeburg 1992, ISBN 3-91017-377-7 , p. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Cress, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Fellife
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1933
Place of death Schönebeck (Elbe)