Otto Leopold Piclum

Otto Leopold Piclum (born February 1, 1899 in Bochum ; † February 1, 1966 in Werdohl ) was a German lawyer, local politician and Lord Mayor of Bochum from 1933 to 1943 .

Piclum in 1928 at the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation on "New forms of enterprise in their legal position taking into account the tax regulations" doctorate .

As editor in chief of the NSDAP - party newspaper Rote Erde he was of Hermann Goering on March 24, 1933, state commissioner appointed for Bochum and determined on May 15, as Acting Mayor. On July 28th, he was elected Lord Mayor of Bochum by the “coordinated” city council. Piclum is said to have watched the destruction of the Bochum synagogue on November 9, 1938 , laughing, with his brother-in-law and district leader of the NSDAP, Ernst Riemenschneider , and the Gau propaganda leader, Brust.

In 1943, after ten years in office, he was retired, and was succeeded by Friedrich Hesseldieck . During the denazification he was classified in Group III (less polluted).

Web links

Literature by and about Otto Leopold Piclum in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Stadtarchiv Bochum: Bochum in the time of National Socialism ( Memento from April 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Günter Gleising: November 9, 1938. In: Antifaschistische Bochumer Blätter , No. 1/2006, page 1 ( online ; PDF; 310 kB)
↑ Junge Welt, November 21, 2006

personal data
SURNAME	Piclum, Otto Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bochum
DATE OF DEATH	1st February 1966
Place of death	Werdohl

[1] Stadtarchiv Bochum: Bochum in the time of National Socialism ( Memento from April 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Günter Gleising: November 9, 1938. In: Antifaschistische Bochumer Blätter , No. 1/2006, page 1 ( online ; PDF; 310 kB)

[3] Junge Welt, November 21, 2006