Otto Passarge

Otto Passarge, sculpture by Josef Wieczorek in Lübeck

Otto Passarge (born November 12, 1891 in Lübeck ; † May 16, 1976 ibid) was mayor ( SPD ) of Lübeck from 1946 to 1956 .

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Otto Passarge was a trained bricklayer and had been a member of the SPD since 1910. From 1921 to 1933 he was a member of the citizenship in Lübeck. From 1924 to 1933 he held leading positions in the Reichsbanner of Mecklenburg-Lübeck, after which he was arrested several times in the Third Reich for illegal activities. After the end of the war, he was police chief of Lübeck for two years , then, as successor to Emil Helms , mayor for ten years . He is considered one of the driving forces in the reconstruction years and integrated over 100,000 refugees into Lübeck after the war.

Honors

• 1956: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Otto Passarge received the highest award in the city of Lübeck with the Bene Merenti commemorative coin .
• A secondary school, a street and the Otto-Passarge-Saal are named after Otto Passarge.

literature

• Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of Publications on the History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, pp. 186-189
• Dagmar Hemmie: Otto Passarge (1891-1976): Life and work for Lübeck (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck / series B, vol. 51). Lübeck 2011

Web links

Commons : Otto Passarge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Otto Passarge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto Passarge in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament information system
• Otto Passarge's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)