Otto Schlag

Otto Schlag (born January 5, 1889 in Kraftsdorf , †  April 22, 1944 in Halle (Saale) ) was a communist politician.

Life

Otto Schlag was a miner by profession and was drafted into the Imperial Navy during the First World War , where he served as a ship heater on the Regensburg . In 1918 he became a member of the USPD . In November 1918 he took part in the uprising of the Kiel sailors . In 1920 he took part in armed fighting to protect the Weimar Republic and the democratic achievements of the November Revolution .

From 1920 to 1928 he was chairman of the works council in the Bösau briquette factory in the Weißenfels district . From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament . He worked as a functionary of the KPD in the Halle – Merseburg district , a. a. as head of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) in Halle. From 1930 he was responsible for Agit-Prop in the district management.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, he was put out to be wanted and arrested in April 1933. Between 1933 and 1939 he was interned in the Lichtenburg , Esterwegen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps and died of the consequences of his imprisonment in 1944.

In 1936, his son Walter Schlag (1914–1981) was sentenced to 14 years in prison in Magdeburg for participating in the resistance against National Socialism . He was imprisoned until 1945. After the war he first worked in the KPD or SED and then was with the barracked people's police and finally with the NVA , from which he resigned in 1970 as a lieutenant colonel .

Honors

In January 1969 , a memorial was founded at Lerchenfeldstrasse 14 in Halle , where the KPD and KJVD district leaders were located before 1933. It was named Otto-Schlag-Haus . Today it belongs to the city museum.

In Hohenmölsen there is a relief stone in honor of Otto Schlag in the north secondary school on Werkstrasse . There is also an Otto-Schlag-Straße in Hohenmölsen , as well as in Weißenfels , Lauchhammer , Röblingen am See , Halle (Saale) and Zeitz .

literature

• Ronald Krimmer: Otto Schlag. 2nd, modified edition. Edited by the Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement at the Halle district leadership of the SED. Halle 1977. (= On the history of the workers' movement in the Halle district. Biographies and memories , issue 8.)
• Luise Kraushaar u. a .: German resistance fighters 1933 to 1945, biographies and letters. Berlin: Dietz 1970. Volume 2, p. 551 ff.
• Fight for the human right. Life pictures and last letters from anti-fascist resistance fighters. (1958) With an afterword by Hanne Hiob. 2nd edition, unchanged. Emphasis. Essen: Neuer Weg Verlag 1992.
• MdL, the end of the parliaments in 1933 and the members of the state parliaments and citizenships of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical index. Edited by Martin Schumacher. Düsseldorf: Droste 1995.
• Blow, Otto . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .