Otto Raatz

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Otto Raatz (born February 19, 1894 in Dammlang ( Dt. Krone district ), † 1941 ) was a German teacher and politician ( NSDAP ).

After passing the matriculation examination at the Gymnasium in Deutsch Krone , the teacher's son began studying at the University of Tübingen in the summer semester of 1914. After the outbreak of the First World War he did military service in the German Army and retired from the army in 1917 with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve. After the end of the war he resumed his teaching degree at the University of Greifswald and studied German, history and geography. After completing his studies, he taught at the Günther private school in Königsberg from 1922 . From the beginning of May 1924 he worked as a teacher at the Städtisches Körte-Oberlyzeum.

Raatz was a national activist. On April 20, 1927 (membership number 67,791) he became a member of the NSDAP. In 1929 he was elected to the provincial parliament of the province of East Prussia for the NSDAP and the Königsberg district. In the provincial parliament he was one of the four members of the NSDAP. In the provincial parliament, the NSDAP agreed a list connection with the DNVP for the election of the provincial committee, so that Erich Koch was elected with Raatz as a deputy in the provincial committee. From March 23, 1931 he was listed as non-attached. In 1933 he was also a member of the last provincial parliament. From 1931 he was in the party Gauamtsleiter (civil servant issues), 1932 to 1941 Gauamtsleiter NSLB . After the seizure of power , from May 1933, he headed the Office for Higher Education under President Koch and was appointed government director.

literature

  • Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933 , 2018, p. 45, digitized
  • Christian Rohrer: National Socialist Power in East Prussia , 2006, ISBN 978-3-89975-054-6 , pp. 107, 109, 597.
  • Leonore Krenzlin , Klaus Weigelt (eds.): Ernst Wiechert in conversation. Encounters and insights into his work. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-020062-1 , p. 69.
personal data
SURNAME Raatz, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teachers and politicians (NSDAP), MdPl
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Dam length
DATE OF DEATH 1941