Otto Sadler
Otto Sadler (born July 29, 1917 in Tekendorf, today Teaca in Transylvania , † January 22, 1992 in Rostock ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was chairman of the Rostock district association and, after Friedrich Kind (Potsdam district association), the longest-serving district chairman of the CDU (1952–1982) in the GDR .
Life
Sadler was born as the son of the pastor Otto Sadler. After attending elementary school and high school , he completed an apprenticeship as a banker from 1936 to 1939 and was then drafted into the armed forces for military service.
After a brief captivity , he returned to Germany in the Soviet zone of occupation . In Hagenow , where his father, as a Protestant pastor, together with the local Catholic clergy, had set up a local CDU association, Sadler became a member of the CDU in 1945. From then on, Sadler was local manager, then district manager and finally district chairman from 1946 to 1952. Since 1946 Sadler had held mandates in the city council and in the district assembly of Hagenow , in 1947 he replaced Wilfried Parge , who had fled to the West as a result of the co-ordination of the CDU, in the Mecklenburg state parliament . He held the mandate until 1950. During the party purge and conformity of the CDU in 1949/1950, Sadler sided with the pro-communist forces. This is why the young functionary was elected deputy chairman Reinhold Lobedanz at the state party conference in 1950 . In the unified list elections in October 1950, Sadler was given a mandate from the People's Chamber , which he held until 1963. After the state association of Mecklenburg was dissolved, Otto Sadler became chairman of the CDU district association in Rostock in 1952 and remained in office until his retirement in 1982. In the 1950s in particular, the SED district leadership criticized Sadler's indulgence several times, but left him in office. He was therefore relatively popular with the members. From 1954 to 1987 Sadler was a member of the main board of the CDU.
Awards
- Silver plaque (1955) and golden badge of honor from the German Peace Council (1956)
- Medal of Merit of the GDR
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959), in silver (1977) and in gold (1982)
- Medal of Honor of the National Front (1981)
- Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1987)
literature
- Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 287.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 750.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , 3./4. October 1987, p. 3.
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Otto Sadler (1952–1982) | Dieter Klemm (1982–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sadler, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker and politician (CDU), MdV |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tekendorf, now Teaca , Transylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1992 |
| Place of death | Rostock |