Otto Lehmann (politician)

Otto Lehmann (born March 21, 1892 in Ströbeck , † July 15, 1973 in Springe ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

After attending the village school and the Halberstädter Realgymnasium , which he graduated with the Abitur , Lehmann worked as an agricultural apprentice and field manager on several estates. He later studied law for four semesters at the University of Halle . In the meantime he belonged to the Field Artillery Regiment 75 as a one-year volunteer .

From 1914 to 1918 Lehmann took part in the First World War, initially from 1914 as a lieutenant in the reserve in the west of the Altmark Field Artillery Regiment 40 . In 1915 he was transferred to the east as a company commander, where he belonged to the Reserve Infantry Regiment 1. During this time he lost his right eyesight and hearing from a head shot in combat. In 1916 Lehmann came to the baton 125, which was used in the east and west. In 1917 and 1918 he fought as a battery leader in the west with the Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 7. After the end of the war, he took part in the fight against the November Revolution in Munich-Pasing . During the war he received the Iron Cross of both classes. After the war, Lehmann worked as a farmer on his father's farm. In 1926 he married. At the same time he leased his father's farm, which he took over as owner in 1932.

In 1914 Lehmann became a member of the farmers ' union . In 1919 he joined the German National Protection and Defense Association and later the German National Freedom Movement (DVFB). For both organizations he worked temporarily as the local group leader of Ströbeck. In January 1931 Lehmann became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 388,437). As early as November 1930 he had worked for the party as an agricultural district adviser for Halberstadt-Wernigerode. In the agricultural policy apparatus of the NSDAP he acted from 1932 as a section specialist advisor for the northern Harz and the Börde and as a deputy regional advisor for Magdeburg-Anhalt. From 1932 until the dissolution of this body in autumn 1933, Lehmann was a member of the Prussian Landtag .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Lehmann took over duties as district farmer leader for Halberstadt-Wernigerode in the Reichsnährstand from October 5, 1933 to April 25, 1934. From September 22nd, 1933 to February 9th, 1936 he served as State Head of Department I of the State Farmers' Association of Saxony-Anhalt. He was then entrusted with the office of the state farmer's leader of the state farmers' association of Saxony-Anhalt. From 1934 to 1936 he also held the office of Prussian hereditary court judge and from 1934 to 1945 that of Reich labor judge. In addition, he was a member of the Reichsbauernrat and the Halle-Merseburg Chamber of Labor. From February 10, 1936 to April 20, 1937 he was acting deputy state farmer leader for the province of Saxony and the state of Anhalt .

From March 1936 until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945, Lehmann sat as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 10 (Magdeburg) . In the SS (SS-No. 276.160), in which he entered on February 20, 1936 and took on duties as a peasant officer in SS Section XVI, from April 1937 he held the nominal rank of standard leader. From June 29, 1937 until the end of the war he was a farmer's assistant at SS Section XVI (Dessau). On February 1, 1941, he became Prussian Provincial Councilor of the Province of Saxony. On February 6, 1943, Lehmann was promoted to SS-Oberführer . On May 1, 1944, he was appointed part-time SS leader in the staff of SS Section XVI, while retaining his position as peasant consultant. After the end of the war he lived in Springe.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 366 f .

Web links

• Otto Lehmann in the database of members of the Reichstag