Otto Oellerich

Otto Oellerich

Otto Oellerich (born January 25, 1862 in Stellenfleth near Freiburg / Elbe , Kehdingen district ; † September 3, 1921 in Lehe ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and trade unionist . He was a member of the Prussian state parliament and chairman of the German shipyard workers' association.

Life

Oellerich, son of a by Lehe had moved Köthners and worker who attended elementary school in Lehe and completed from 1876 to 1879 an apprenticeship as a ship carpenter. He then worked on land and at sea until 1901. Since the beginning of the 1890s, shop steward was the shipyard workers. Oellerich was initially part-time from 1896 to 1901, and then from 1901 to 1905 full-time chairmanship of the main board of the German shipyard workers' association, which he co-founded and based in Bremerhaven . In addition, he was the editor of its association organ Der Werftarbeiter . He then headed the branch of the seamen's association as managing director from 1906 to 1910 and the branch of the transport workers' association in Bremerhaven from 1910 to 1913 . From 1913 to 1921, as a full-time workers secretary , he devoted himself to the social and legal issues of the workers.

Oellerich was also mayor (city councilor) from 1907 to 1919 and an honorary member of the magistrate in Lehe from 1919 to 1921. In the 1st workers' council of the Lower Weser towns he was responsible for the joint food office. Oellerich was a member of the constituent Prussian state assembly for the constituency of Aurich-Stade-Osnabrück from 1919 to 1921 and of the Prussian state parliament from 1921 until his death for the constituency 15 of East Hanover. Oellerich was also a member of the Hanover Provincial Parliament .

From 1906 to 1920 he was one of the sponsors of the social democratic daily newspaper Norddeutsche Volksstimme, published in Bremerhaven .

Honors

According to him, that is Otto Oellerich Street in Bremerhaven- Leherheide named.

literature

• Handbook for the Prussian Landtag . Prussian publishing house, Berlin 1921, p. 288.
• Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 639.
• Hartmut Bickelmann : Bremerhaven personalities from four centuries . A biographical lexicon . Stadtarchiv Bremerhaven 2002, ISBN 3-923851-24-3 , p. 214.
• Peter Kuckuk (with the assistance of Ulrich Schröder): Bremen in the German Revolution 1918/1919. Revolution, Soviet republic, restoration . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95494-115-5 , p. 474.