Otto Maier (politician)

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Otto Maier

Karl Otto Maier (born July 14, 1901 in Stuttgart , † July 18, 1934 in Rommelshausen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending secondary school in Stuttgart, Maier was an intern in electrical engineering. He then studied electrical engineering from 1920 to 1923 at the Technical University of Stuttgart . He then worked as a calculation engineer in the Cannstatter plant of the Esslingen machine factory until 1928 , followed by a position as a test engineer in the electric motor plant of Siemens-Schuckertwerke from 1928 to 1930. In 1930 he became an assistant at the Technical University in Stuttgart for the areas of theory and analysis of electrical engineering Machinery.

In 1928 Maier joined the NSDAP in Berlin ( membership number 85,661). In July 1930 he took on his first official duties as a local group leader and from October 1932 as a district leader in Stuttgart. Maier is characterized as a capable and combative local group leader; National Socialists describe him as stubborn and fanatical at times, but also sincere.

From 1932 until the dissolution of this body in autumn 1933, Maier was a member of the Württemberg state parliament . From November 1933 he was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 31 (Württemberg) . After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Maier took over in the NSDAP duties as Regional Inspector and Head of the Personnel Office in Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern .

Maier's suicide in July 1934 was preceded by a defeat in conflicts over the admission of high officials to the NSDAP as so-called March dead. Maier took the position that only those officials should be accepted into the party who had elected the NSDAP before the transfer of power and who had campaigned for the National Socialists “at least in a narrow circle”. This met with opposition from the Württemberg interior minister, Jonathan Schmid , who wanted to take over the administrative apparatus as completely as possible in order to be able to use it for the purposes of the National Socialists. The political motive for Maier's suicide is the murder of Ernst Röhm and other SA leaders in the so-called Röhmputsch , which made it clear that Hitler was relying on an alliance with the old social elite. A speech by the leader of the German Labor Front , Robert Ley , in Stuttgart on July 16, is considered a possible trigger of suicide . Ley is said to have declared in a drunk state that the NSDAP had made nothing to the workers, but that they would keep it.

Gustav Oexle succeeded Maier in the Reichstag; his successor as district leader was Adolf Mauer .

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. 397 .
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 537 .

Web links

  • Otto Maier in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roland Müller: Stuttgart at the time of National Socialism. Theiss, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-8062-0541-8 , p. 24.
  2. ↑ Michael Ruck : Corpsgeist and State Consciousness. Civil servants in the German southwest 1928–1972. (= National Socialism and Post-War Era in Southwest Germany. Volume 4) Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56197-9 , pp. 92–95.
  3. ^ Ruck, Korpsgeist , p. 95; Müller, Stuttgart , p. 279.
  4. ↑ Müller, Stuttgart , p. 279.
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maier, Karl Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1934
Place of death Rommelshausen