Otto Laue

Otto Hermann Friedrich Laue (born November 26, 1875 in Nienhaus , † June 12, 1933 in Witten ) was a German politician .

Life

Born as the son of a landowner and community leader , Laue studied law and economics in Freiburg im Breisgau , Leipzig and Göttingen after attending the Osnabrück high school . During his studies in 1896 he became a member of the Alemannia Freiburg fraternity . After his exams and legal clerkship, he became a court assessor in Bochum in 1905 and second mayor in Witten in 1908, as well as a member of the Prussian state parliament . In 1911 he became first mayor , in 1917 lord mayor . He was a member of the German National People's Party . During the French occupation he was by a French military court to one year imprisonment in the penitentiary Two bridges convicted because he did not want obey a command. During his detention, he was confirmed in the mayor's office. When he stood in the way of the National Socialists in 1933 and they unjustly accused him of corruption , he committed suicide .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 252-253.
• Paul Brandenburg, Karl-Heinz Hildebrand: Witten heads. Biographies from a millennium (=  contributions to the history of the city of Witten . Volume 4 ). VOHM , Witten 2002, ISBN 3-00-010575-1 , p. 90-91 .