Otto Schellknecht

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Otto Schellknecht (born October 30, 1888 in Weißenfels , † March 4, 1966 in Goslar ) was a German politician ( economic party ).

Life

Otto Schellknecht was born as the third son of foreman Friedrich Schellknecht. He attended the schools in Langendorf and Obergreißlau from 1894 to 1902 , then worked in the shoe industry and was a bookseller from 1907 to 1924. In 1911 he moved to Goslar, where he ran the station bookshop. On November 1st, 1924, he started his own cigar specialty shop with an attached wine shop. He was a member of the German Trade and Industrial Employees Association (DHV) and from 1922 to 1933 first chairman of the Goslar house and landowner association and chairman of the Harz Association. In 1933 he moved to Halberstadt , where he continued his business in the following years.

During the time of the Weimar Republic , Schellknecht joined the Reich Party of German Medium-Sized Enterprises (Economic Party). In 1924 he became mayor and later senator of the city of Goslar, and in 1925 a member of the Hildesheim district committee. From Easter 1926 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hanover , from March 14, 1928 again as a successor. In May 1928 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he was a member until 1932. In parliament he represented constituency 16 (south Hanover). From 1928 Schellknecht took part in several lawsuits against the provincial administration of Hanover and, together with state building officer Paul Steinke, published the brochure Mismanagement with public funds at the provincial administration 1925–1929 .

Schellknecht was arrested by the Soviets in Halberstadt in 1945 and interned for three years in special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg . After his release, he returned to Goslar as a displaced person, where in 1950 he founded the Central Association of Aircraft Damaged, Evacuated and Currency Damaged Persons. In 1954 he founded the General Association of Soviet Zone Refugees and in 1957 the Association of Victims of Stalinism. He was also the district commissioner of the anti-communist Volksbund for peace and freedom .

literature

  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 313.
  • Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. P. 583.
  • Hannelore Giesecke: Now everything has to turn. Goslarer Allerlei 1948–1970. Compiled from collected newspaper reports. Books on Demand. P. 284.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NLA HA Hann. 150 No. 118/09 - Trials against State Building Council ... - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved June 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schellknecht, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (economic party), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1966
Place of death Goslar