Otto Möller (politician, 1887)

Otto Theodor Hermann Möller (born May 19, 1887 in Coburg , † November 22, 1949 in Erlangen ) was a German lawyer and politician who supported the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDP) as a member of the Thuringian state parliament in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR , represented in the German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber as a member of parliament.

Life

Otto Theodor Hermann Möller was born on May 19, 1887 as the son of a commissioner in Coburg. He attended the village school and a secondary school, then he took up a law degree. In 1912 he passed the first state examination, the subsequent legal clerkship was interrupted by being drafted into the Reichswehr. Möller served until 1918, when he was released with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve. In 1920 he passed the second state examination, then he worked in the district office of the Saalfeld district until 1924 , most recently as deputy district administrator. In 1924 Möller started his own business as a lawyer in Sonneberg , and in 1925 he also worked as a notary . Until 1933 he was a member of the Thuringian Land Association . During the Nazi era , Möller showed himself to be a sharp opponent of the NSDAP .

After the end of the war, he was one of the founders of a Democratic Party, which shortly thereafter merged into the newly formed LDP. Möller temporarily led the LDP district association Sonneberg and sat from September 1945 until his death as an assessor in the LDP state board of Thuringia. The lawyer was one of the first parliamentary representatives of the LDP. He was appointed as a member of the Advisory State Assembly of Thuringia and was also a member of the Thuringian State Parliament after the first state elections in September 1946. From July 24, 1948 until his death he held the post of 1st Vice President of the State Parliament in the state parliament. In addition, from May 30, 1949 belonged to the 2nd German People's Council as a member. He also officially represented the LDP as a member of parliament until his death in the successor parliament, the Provisional People's Chamber.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952: Biographisches Handbuch (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, large series . Volume 1 , no. 4 ). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 . Pp. 484-485.