Otto Martin (politician)

Otto Martin (born January 18, 1897 in Lättnitz , district of Grünberg i. Schles. , † April 5, 1972 in Mödesse , Lower Saxony ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Otto Martin attended elementary school and joined the union in 1913. With the onset of the First World War he was a soldier confiscated . In 1916 he was taken prisoner by the French , where he was not released until 1920. In the same year he joined the SPD and worked in the ceramic industry. Martin then attended the State College for Economics and Administration in Berlin in 1927 and became an employee of the union the following year. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Martin was released in 1933 and arrested. He later worked as an employee of an insurance company.

After the Second World War , Martin first became a union employee and from 1947 party secretary at the SPD in Berlin-Neukölln . Since Fritz Votava was elected district councilor for youth in Neukölln in January 1959, Martin was able to move up to the Berlin House of Representatives . In 1963 he left parliament.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 182-183 (331 pages).