Otto Naumann (politician, 1896)
Otto Naumann (born February 8, 1896 in Strasburg (Uckermark) ; † January 26, 1973 there ) was a German politician ( USPD , KPD , SED ) of the communist resistance against National Socialism and mayor of his hometown after the Second World War from 1945 to 1947 .
Life
The family, his father was a shoemaker, his mother a casual worker and his nine siblings, lived in a small house in the town of Strasburg (Uckermark).
After eight years of attending elementary school, Otto Naumann wanted to start a business apprenticeship in 1910. Due to the financial situation of his parents, he had to give up this wish. He was for two years Hofgänger in Hansfelde , a small settlement near Strasburg. The community code of the time stipulated that each village family had to provide a person for the landlord . But since many families sent their children to the city or they were not yet old enough, city boys who came from poor family backgrounds were also employed. In this way Otto Naumann also became a court visitor. Later he went to Kreckow . Since the landowner treated him badly, he broke off this activity.
Until the beginning of the First World War he worked in a whip and handle factory in Strasburg (Uckermark). Although an opponent of the war, he was drafted into the imperial army in 1916 . During this time he was captured by the French, from which he was only released in 1920.
He began to work as a farm laborer again, joined the German Farm Workers' Association and became a member of the workers' sports club and the workers' choir . In 1920 he became a member of the local branch of the USPD and in 1923 a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1928 he became the political leader of the local group. The local group led an active fight against agitation and defamation under his leadership.
On February 28, 1933, he was arrested with 13 other KPD functionaries. He was detained for four months in Strasburg (Uckermark) and then deported to the Oranienburg and Sonnenburg concentration camps. Otto Naumann spent a year and a half in the concentration camps because of his convictions. After his release in April 1934, he was under police supervision. Nevertheless, as the political leader of the local group of the KPD, he met with the SPD local group chairman August Conrad. Otto Naumann was forced to change jobs frequently because the business owners refused to employ him for long periods. The last professional station before the Second World War was that of a drainage worker in the district.
After the occupation of Strasburg (Uckermark) by the Red Army on April 28, 1945 Otto Naumann was called to the Soviet city commander . He was commissioned to put together a magistrate . Otto Naumann went back to the commandant with his list and was appointed mayor on May 1, 1945 with the sentence: "Here you have an armband, you are now the mayor" . His first tasks - in cooperation with other members of the magistrate - were primarily to put out the fires, to tear down all the ruins that threatened the life and security of the population, to take care of the orphaned, wandering children, the electricity and restore water supplies and provide the population with essential food. From May 1946 he was chairman of the SED local group.
Later in the GDR he was a training and management manager at the consumer cooperative association (KGV) in the Strasburg district . In addition, he was cultural director in Gollmitz ( Prenzlau district ), party secretary of the basic organizations (GO), employee at the council of the Ueckermünde and Strasburg district, chairman of the persecuted-of-the-Nazi-regime commission (VdN), member of the district revision commission, the cooperative council, the district committee for Youth consecration , the district committee of people's solidarity (VS) and the district committee of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF).
Honors
In 1971 he was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Strasburg (Uckermark), which was revoked after the German reunification on October 24, 1990 by application of the SPD. The multi-purpose hall handed over to the city council by VEB (K) Bau Strasburg on January 5, 1978 was named after him for twelve years. After the revocation of honorary citizenship, it was then given the neutral designation "Stadthalle". After a renovation in 2005, it was renamed the “ Max Schmeling Hall”. Otto Naumann's name is on one of the 50 plaques of the memorial for the fighters against reaction and fascism "The Unyielding" south of the New Cemetery in Neubrandenburg , the central socialist memorial of the former district . He was the holder of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, the Medal of Merit of the GDR , the medal for 40 years of loyal membership and the medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945 .
literature
- “Are you afraid?” Otto Naumann was the first mayor of Strasburg. 20 years ago in Mecklenburg. In: North German lighthouse. No. 631, regional history supplement to the Norddeutsche Zeitung , 1965, p. 1.
- Otto Naumann. In: Christine Stelzer: Monument to the Indomitable. Biographies of the comrades honored at the Neubrandenburg memorial. District comm. for research d. Story d. Local Labor movement at d. District management Neubrandenburg d. SED, Neubrandenburg 1977, p. 44.
- Fred Lucius: Naumann was mayor after 1945. In: Pasewalker Zeitung . Edition 280, Kurierverlag, December 1, 2006, p. 20.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c “Are you afraid?” Otto Naumann was the first mayor of Strasburg. 20 years ago in Mecklenburg. In: North German lighthouse. No. 631, 1965, p. 1.
- ↑ Wolfgang Höch, Horst Bendig: The anti-fascist resistance struggle under the leadership of the KPD in Mecklenburg 1933 to 1945. Edited by the district commissions for research into the history of the local labor movement in the Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg district leaderships of the SED . Ostsee-Druck, Rostock 1970, p. 153. ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Ernst-Adolf Thamm: A life in three social orders. Autobiography. Lenover, 2000, ISBN 3-930164-63-9 , p. 125 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Minutes of the city council meeting of Strasburg
- ^ Chronicle 1946–1986 , FC Einheit Strasburg
- ^ Max-Schmeling-Halle , strasburg.de
- ↑ Otto Naumann. In: Christine Stelzer: Monument to the Indomitable. Biographies of the comrades honored at the Neubrandenburg memorial. District comm. for research d. Story d. Local Labor movement at d. District management Neubrandenburg d. SED, Neubrandenburg 1977, p. 44.
- ↑ 725 years of Strasburg; Page 27
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Naumann, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD, SED) and mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasburg , Uckermark |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1973 |
| Place of death | Strasburg , Uckermark |