Otto Langnau

Otto Langnau (born November 11, 1902 in Brunau near Danzig ; † cannot be determined) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the People's Day of the Free City of Danzig .

Life

Langnau, the son of a small farmer , was initially a farm worker and later worked from 1921 to 1923 as a miner in the Ruhr area . He became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and then returned to Brunau. From 1928 he was community representative, from 1929 to the beginning of 1933 community leader of the community Brunau. From January 1928 Langnau was also a member of the Danzig People's Day and from May 1931 a member of the Großes Werder district council .

In the People's Day elections in May 1933 , he and Anton Plenikowski headed the KPD's list. In 1936 Langnau's immunity was lifted because of a formal violation of the press law. After the Mandate Commission of the People's Day had declared Plenikowski's mandate invalid on October 7, 1937 because of his flight to Sweden , Langnau and Paul Serotzki were threatened with persecution. Both left the KPD the following day and were accepted into the NSDAP parliamentary group as interns . When, after the end of the Nazi dictatorship in 1945, the cadre department of the Central Committee of the KPD initiated investigations into the situation within the Danzig KPD in 1937, Serotzki declared that he and Langnau had not only evaded arrest by taking this step, but that they also had the KPD tactics of the time of the " Trojan horse " applied.

Nothing is known about Langnau's further fate.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdL The end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5189-0 , p. 92
• Langnau, Otto . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 526.