Otto Pick (politician)
Otto Pick (born April 15, 1882 in Birkenfeld (Nahe) , † April 17, 1945 in Kilchzimmer , Switzerland ) was a German politician and trade unionist.
From 1888 to 1896 he attended the elementary school in Birkenfeld. He learned the blacksmith's trade and worked in the state coal mines in Camphausen . From 1914 he was an official of the Christian trade unions and later an employee of the Christian Metalworkers Association . In 1919 he entered the Weimar National Assembly as a member of the DDP . After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was persecuted and later expelled from Germany. Pick first fled to France, where he worked in trade union organizations in exile in the resistance against National Socialism. He later fled into exile in Switzerland, where he died in 1945.
literature
- Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
- Dennis Egginger-Gonzalez: Otto Pick (1882–1945) , In: Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz (ed.) With the assistance of Julia Pietsch: Emigrierte Metallgewerkschafter in the fight against the Nazi regime (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration . Volume 3). Metropol, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-210-7 , pp. 253-272.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Pick in the catalog of the German National Library
- Otto Pick in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Otto Pick in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pick, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DDP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birkenfeld (Nahe) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1945 |
| Place of death | Kilchzimmer , Switzerland |