Otto Nebrig

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Otto Nebrig (born January 8, 1876 in Lützschena ; † March 8, 1969 there ) was a German politician ( SPD , USPD , SED ) and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Nebrig was born on January 8, 1876 in the municipality of Lützschena, west of Leipzig , in a social-democratic working-class family. From 1882 to 1890 he attended elementary school there. At thirteen, he organized a 1889 on a organized by the school work use on the manor of Lützschena schoolchildren strike . The strike, aimed at better wages, was crowned with success, but it had a negative impact on Nebrig as he was subsequently excluded from this low additional earnings. After leaving school, he completed an apprenticeship as a construction worker, which lasted until 1893. At the same time he attended the Polytechnic Sunday Trade School in order to acquire further knowledge. In 1895 he joined the union and in 1896 became a member of the SPD. In the period from 1896 to 1898 he completed his military service. Right after he settled until 1901 for the trading business for shop assistants to retrain. In 1901 he got a job as a branch manager for West Saxon consumer goods . Until 1933 he worked in this position in various locations, first in Eutritzsch , later in the headquarters in Leipzig-Plagwitz, then in Quasnitz and finally in his home town of Lützschena. In 1905 Nebrig married. However, his wife soon passed away, leaving him with three minor children. At the end of 1919 Otto Nebrig married her sister Martha Mieder, with whom he was connected for over fifty years.

Political career

In 1899 Nebrig was elected to the local group executive committee of the Lützschena SPD and just one year later the members elected him as their chairman. He stayed that way until 1933 and steadily expanded his position in the regional party organization. In 1906 he became the official speaker for the SPD in the Leipzig district. In 1914 he ran for the first time in a state election. During the First World War , in 1917, he joined the USPD, which represented a position deviating from the majority social democracy on the war question. From 1920 he became both a member and chairman of the district assembly for the Leipzig district and a member of the district committee and district committee of the Leipzig district headquarters. He remained so until 1933. In 1922 he rejoined the SPD and was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1922 to 1933 . In the state parliament he worked, among other things, on the examination and legal committee. Of the legislative projects implemented in these years, the new municipal code of 1923 and the Welfare Care Act of 1925 bear his signature. In the Saxon conflict of the SPD, triggered by the parliamentary group majority through the formation of a grand coalition at state level , Nebrig sided with the left-wing minority, which, however, knew the vast majority of the state party behind them. In 1926 he finally moved up as secretary to the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1929 he officiated as secretary or parliamentary manager of his group.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in Saxony in March 1933 and the arrest of numerous social democratic member of parliament was Nebrig suddenly the leader of the SPD parliamentary group. As on May 23, 1933, the National Socialist parliamentary group presented its own draft enabling law, the basic rights of Members circumcised, sat Nebrig the only speakers a clear No it. From June to August 1933, Nebrig was imprisoned in Sachsenburg concentration camp .

After the end of the Nazi regime, in 1945 he re-founded the local SPD group in his home town of Lützschena, became chairman of the local SPD group and, after 1946, the local SED group. He withdrew from the SED in 1947 because of political and health problems, but remained a member of the local council and district assembly in Leipzig-Land until 1950 .

literature

  • Mike Schmeitzner: Otto Nebrig (1876–1969). The forgotten parliamentarian. In: Michael Rudloff, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): “Such pests also exist in Leipzig”. Social Democrats and the SED. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-631-47385-0 , pp. 86-90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Leipzig. RdB / BT, No. 13542.
  2. ↑ See Workers' Guide for Leipzig and the Surrounding Area for 1912, Jg./1912, Leipzig 1912, p. 90.
  3. ↑ Landtag files - including negotiations - from 1933 (6th electoral period), 2nd session on May 23, 1933, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Speech by Member of the Bundestag Detlef Müller at the memorial event at the former Sachsenburg concentration camp on June 8, 2008 (accessed on August 1, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Nebrig, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Lützschena
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1969
Place of death Lützschena