Otto Rippel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Otto Rippel

Otto Rippel (born January 30, 1878 in Hagen ; † January 18, 1957 there ) was a German publisher and politician ( DNVP , CSVD , later CDU ).

Life and work

After attending elementary school, Rippel completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller, which he completed with the assistant examination. In the following years he worked as a publisher and bookseller in Hagen. In 1901 he became an independent publisher, owned a printing company and later headed the newspaper publisher Otto Rippel Verlag .

Political party

Rippel was a board member of the Christian Social Party until 1918 and was one of the founders of the DNVP after the November Revolution , of which he was a board member from 1919 to 1930. Due to differences within the party, he switched to the CSVD in 1929. In 1945 he joined the CDU. For the Christian Democrats he was a member of the board of directors and the zone committee.

MP

Rippel was a city ​​councilor in Hagen from 1908 to 1924, in 1933 and since 1945 . He was a member of the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly from 1919 to 1921 and was then a member of the Prussian State Parliament until 1924 and again in 1933 . In the Reichstag election in May 1924 , he was elected to the German Reichstag , of which he was a member until 1928. From 1930 to 1932 he was again a member of the Reichstag for the CSVD . Rippel had been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Landtag since 1946 and was a member of the first freely elected North Rhine-Westphalian Landtag from 1947 to 1950 . Here he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

Public offices

Rippel served as mayor (deputy mayor ) of the city of Hagen from 1946 to 1952 .

literature

  • Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 374.
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 9th edition, Leipzig 1928, p. 1274.
  • Karin Jaspers, Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippe candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation. Aschendorff, Münster 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , pp. 161f.

Web links
personal data
SURNAME Rippel, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publishers and politicians (DNVP, CSVD, CDU), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1957
Place of death Hagen