Otto Most (politician)

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Otto Most 1920

Otto Most (born September 13, 1881 in Markranstädt ; † December 18, 1971 in Duisburg ) was a German politician of the DVP .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Halle (Saale) , Most, who was of Protestant faith, studied political science there and in Prague from 1899 . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Halle and of the Association of German Students in Prague . After he received his doctorate in political science in 1903 , he first worked at the Chamber of Commerce in Halle. In 1904 he spent a year at the Imperial Statistical Office, and then from 1905 to 1907 in the Government in Poznan to work. From 1905 he also worked as a part-time lecturer at various universities and educational institutions for the public service. In 1907 he moved to the administration of the city of Düsseldorf , where he held the post of paid alderman from 1911 to 1915. In the First World War he was awarded the Iron Cross on a white ribbon . From 1920 to 1944 he was the managing director of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Duisburg . In addition, from 1926 he was a department head at the Westphalian Administrative Academy in Bochum and from 1927 as a part-time lecturer at the University of Münster. On April 26, 1929 he was made an honorary professor. In February 1931 Most was narrowly defeated by state party member Wilhelm Külz in the election for Lord Mayor of Dresden . After the Second World War, he was President of the Central Association for German Inland Shipping from 1949 to 1961. He published several works on the economic history of the Rhineland.

Like Gustav Stresemann, he was a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge Friedrich the Great .

MP

Most belonged to the district council in the Dinslaken district in 1916/17, the Rhenish provincial council during his time in Sterkrade. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly for the DVP , then until 1928 a member of the Reichstag for the DVP, for which he also sat on the city ​​council of Duisburg in 1929/30 .

Public offices

Most became mayor in 1916 and lord mayor of the city of Sterkrade in 1917 . He held the office until 1920.

Publications

  • The debt economy of the German cities. Jena 1909.
  • The municipal operations of the city of Düsseldorf. Leipzig 1909.
  • Population science. Berlin 1913, 2nd improved edition, ibid. 1927.
  • History of the city of Düsseldorf. Vol. 2: From 1815 to the introduction of the Rhenish city regulations (1856) . Düsseldorf 1921.
  • Economy and community. Jena 1926, 2nd edition, ibid. 1926.
  • On financial and tax reform. Critical and programmatic. Jena 1930.
  • with Bruno Kuske , Heinrich Weber (ed.): Economics for Rhineland and Westphalia . Hobbing, Berlin 1931.
  • The Rhine as an economic designer. Duisburg 1937.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 151.
  2. ^ Christel Hermann: Wilhelm Külz - a Lord Mayor of Dresden. In: Wilhelm Külz - a Saxon liberal. Edited by the Wilhelm Külz Foundation . Dresden 1999, p. 35.
  3. ↑ Hermann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? IX. Ed., Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 1076; Manfred Hermanns : Social ethics through the ages. Personalities - Research - Effects of the Chair for Christian Social Studies and the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the University of Münster 1893–1997. Paderborn: Schöningh 2006, p. 158.
personal data
SURNAME Most, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Markranstädt
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1971
Place of death Duisburg