Otto Oehring

Otto Oehring (born November 17, 1892 in Hamburg ; † late January 1945 in the Sonnenburg prison ) was a German communist ( KPD / KPO ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . He was a member of the Reich leadership of the Communist Party Opposition (KPO).

Life

Oehring attended elementary school and learned the trade of a businessman . He then worked as a commercial clerk. Oehring took part in the First World War as a soldier . In October 1914 he was drafted into the infantry and came to the Western Front . After being wounded in January 1915, he served on the Flemish front until August 1916 . After a serious illness he stayed in war hospitals until June 1919 - only interrupted by a deployment in the border service in 1917 .

In the spring of 1920 he moved to Berlin . He worked there for various companies until 1928, including the commercial agency of the Soviet Union . In 1924 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1928 he was expelled from the KPD as a “right wing”. Oehring had opposed the split in the trade union movement and the lack of internal party democracy. After a long period of unemployment, he found a job at the employment office in 1929 and worked for the Berliner Stadtbank from 1930 to 1933 with interruptions. He joined the Communist Party Opposition (KPO) early on and became head of the Charlottenburg sub-district . Oehring also worked in the office of the International Aid Association of the KPO.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was dismissed in 1933 as an employee of the city bank. He actively participated in the illegal work of the KPO. First he sold the illegal publications of the KPO and organized the Berlin sub-district south. From March 1935 Oehring belonged to the illegal Reich leadership of the KPO (the so-called Berlin Committee , BK) and now worked in the editing of the publications. Oehring was arrested with other management members of the KPO on February 22, 1937 and sentenced on November 24, 1937 by the 2nd Senate of the “ People's Court ” to eight years in prison and eight years of loss of honor for “preparing for high treason under difficult circumstances” . He was sent to the Sonnenburg prison. Like all political prisoners, he was shot there at the end of January 1945 when the SS withdrew .

literature

• Theodor Bergmann : "Against the Current". The History of the Communist Party Opposition . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-87975-406-3 , p. 410 and passim.
• Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” Reich capital: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1 , p. 178f.
• Elke Reuter, Wladislaw Hedeler , Horst Helas, Klaus Kinner (eds.): Luxemburg or Stalin. Leap year 1928: The KPD at the crossroads (= history of communism and left-wing socialism ; Vol. IV). Karl Dietz, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-320-02038-2 , p. 267.
• Oehring, Otto . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 649.