Otto Meier (politician)
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Otto Meier (born January 3, 1889 in Magdeburg , † April 10, 1962 in Potsdam ) was a German politician ( SED ).
Life
Meier, the son of a lithographer, attended the community school and completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1903 to 1906. He then worked as a commercial clerk in Magdeburg and Berlin . From 1909 to 1910 he did military service. Meier joined the SPD in 1911 . During the First World War he did military service and was released seriously injured. He switched to the USPD in 1917 and became a member of the SPD again in 1922. From 1921 to 1933 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament . During the time of National Socialism , Meier was under police supervision several times and was imprisoned in 1939 and 1944, most recently in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .
On June 15, 1945 Meier took part in the constitution of the central committee of the SPD headed by Otto Grotewohl and signed the call for the re-establishment of the SPD. From 1945 to 1946 he was editor-in-chief of the SPD newspaper Das Volk . In 1946 the 40th party congress of the SPD elected Meier as one of the 40 future SED board members. Meier was a member of parliament from 1947 and president of the first and second Brandenburg state parliaments from 1949 to 1952 . In 1948/49 he was a member of the German People's Council , in 1949/50 a member of the Provisional People's Chamber and from 1950 to 1958 of the Länderkammer of the GDR . From 1952 until his death in 1962 he was a member of the Potsdam District Parliament . From July 1952 he acted as general director of the state archives and from April 1, 1953 as head of the state archives department in the State Secretariat for Internal Affairs of the GDR (successor to Otto Korfes ). Because of his poor health, his deputy Karl Höhnel took over the management of the main department from 1956 until his replacement by Karl Schirdewan on April 1, 1958 .
Otto Meier was an honorary citizen of the city of Potsdam. His urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg .
literature
- History of the SED. Demolition. Berlin 1978.
- Werner Bethge, Kurt Finker , Kurt Libera: Union of SPD and KPD in the province of Brandenburg 1946. In: Landesverband der PDS, working group program - history - political education (ed.): Dialogue in the PDS, Landesverband Brandenburg 1996. ( RTF; 118 kB )
- Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History, organization, politics: a manual. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 1026.
- Andreas Herbst, Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Meier, Otto . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.sozialistenfriedhof.de/l_q.html
- ^ Chronicle of the SPD in Berlin ( Memento from April 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://library.fes.de/fulltext/sozmit/1945-075.htm
- ↑ http://www.vervielte-schueler.org/1945-1990.htm
- ^ History of the Brandenburg State Parliaments - The State Parliament of Brandenburg 1945–1952. Brandenburg State Parliament, 2006, archived from the original on June 4, 2007 ; Retrieved December 26, 2014 .
- ^ Potsdam Chronik ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Friedrich Ebert (1946–1949) | Otto Meier (1949–1952) | - | Herbert Knoblich (1990-2004) | Gunter Fritsch (2004–2014) | Britta Stark (2014–2019) | Ulrike Liedtke (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meier, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (USPD, SPD, SED), member of the Prussian and later the Brandenburg state parliament, MdV |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1962 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |