Otto Rötzscher

Otto Rötzscher (born April 30, 1891 in Halle (Saale) ; † August 22, 1932 in Chemnitz ) was a German politician ( SPD / KPD / KPO ) and reform pedagogue .

Life

Rötzscher, the son of a decorative painter, attended the preparation institute and the teachers' seminar in Zschopau . From 1910 to 1917 he was a primary school teacher in Niederlauterstein in the Ore Mountains and in Geringswalde . For health reasons, he was not drafted into the military or military service in the First World War. In 1917 Rötzscher got a job as a primary school teacher in Chemnitz. Later he was a teacher at the Chemnitz experimental school. Alongside Fritz Müller (1887–1968) and Max Uhlig (1881–1954), Rötzscher was one of the leading figures in Saxon reform pedagogy.

In 1919 Rötzscher joined the SPD, in autumn 1920 he became a member of the KPD. Until 1924 he acted as secretary for trade union work of the KPD in Chemnitz. In November 1926, Rötzscher was elected as a member of the Saxon state parliament, where he was secretary of the communist parliamentary group. He excelled in the state parliament in particular on issues of education and school policy.

Rötzscher was considered a supporter of the right wing of the party and in 1928/29 was one of the five members of the Saxon state parliament who were in opposition to the Central Committee of the KPD. The closer district leadership of the Erzgebirge-Vogtland of the KPD therefore excluded Rötzscher from the party on January 14, 1928, together with Arthur Schreiber and Robert Siewert . The decision was communicated to the comrades on the following day during the session of the Saxon state parliament. Rötzscher became a member of the KPO, for which he also ran in the Saxon state elections in May 1929. However, the KPO only received 0.8% of the vote and thus lost its parliamentary representation. In August 1930 Rötzscher switched to the SPD, but no longer appeared politically.

Rötzscher, who was seriously ill with tuberculosis, died in Chemnitz in 1932.

Fonts

The criticism of the draft Reich school law. Berlin [1928].

Honors

In 1945 the Otto Rötzscher School (today the Evangelical School Center) in Chemnitz was named after him.

literature

Rötzscher, Otto Helmut . 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 .

Web links

Entry: Rötzscher, Otto on the page "Historical Protocols of the Saxon State Parliament".
Andreas Pehnke: Otto Rötzscher (1891–1932) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

^ Yearbook for Pedagogy (Volume 8): Remembering - Education - Identity . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 357.
↑ see also: Andreas Reichel: The Saxon school reform in the Weimar Republic . Dissertation, TU Dresden 2014, pp. 118, 174 and 284.
↑ Against the current. Organ of the KPD opposition 1928 to 1935 (reprint). Volume 1: 1928/29 . Edition SOAK in Junius-Verlag, Hannover 1985, p. 162.

personal data
SURNAME	Rötzscher, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rötzscher, Otto Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (KPD / KPO), MdL Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH	August 22, 1932
Place of death	Chemnitz

[1] Yearbook for Pedagogy (Volume 8): Remembering - Education - Identity . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 357.

[2] see also: Andreas Reichel: The Saxon school reform in the Weimar Republic . Dissertation, TU Dresden 2014, pp. 118, 174 and 284.

[3] Against the current. Organ of the KPD opposition 1928 to 1935 (reprint). Volume 1: 1928/29 . Edition SOAK in Junius-Verlag, Hannover 1985, p. 162.