Otto Schmidt-Hanover

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Otto Schmidt (around 1924)

Otto Schmidt , known as Otto Schmidt-Hannover , (born January 27, 1888 in Schermeisel ; † March 24, 1971 in Bremen-Vegesack ) was a Prussian officer , German politician , member of the Reichstag and the last parliamentary leader of the DNVP .

Life and work

Otto Schmidt was born the son of a farmer. He attended grammar school in Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1906 he became a lieutenant in the infantry regiment "von Courbière" (2. Posensches) No. 19 of the Prussian Army in Görlitz . In 1913 he was assigned to the War Academy .

During the First World War he was wounded several times and received awards. a. he received the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Wound Badge . He served as a captain in the General Staff of the High Command East and took part in the peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk on the staff of Field Marshal Prince Leopold of Bavaria .

In 1919 he left the army and devoted himself to economic and political studies. He was a close employee of Alfred Hugenberg and was a member of the management of various companies in his group .

Schmidt was friends with Ernst Pfeiffer and belonged to the Union of the Upright . As a veteran of the First World War, he was a member of the Bund der Frontsoldaten, the " Stahlhelm ".

After 1933 he worked for the Scherl-Verlag and Ufa . In 1959 he published his book Rethinking or Anarchy , which he dedicated to his son Bodo, who died as a submarine officer in the North Atlantic during World War II .

On the occasion of his 75th birthday, an American historian called him “the man who said NO to Hitler” .

politics

In 1924 he was nominated for the constituency of Hanover in the Reichstag elected, the parliamentary practice has been following it since then usually called "Schmidt-Hannover". Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg , who was retiring in Hanover, was a frequent audience member of his constituencies . In 1925, Schmidt-Hannover, with the help of Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz , succeeded in persuading Hindenburg, who was then 77 years old, to run for the office of Reich President .

Schmidt-Hannover worked in the Reichstag in the budget committee and as a defense expert. In 1932 there was a communist attack on Otto Schmidt-Hannover in Berlin . On May 2, 1933, Hitler said in a conversation with Hugenberg: "Mr. Schmidt-Hannover is my personal enemy and an enemy of my movement" .

Schmidt approved the Enabling Act in the Reichstag on March 23, 1933. On April 11, 1933 Schmidt-Hannover has been following the resignation of Ernst Oberfohren Group Chairman of the German National People's Party (DNVP). He was the last to hold this position.

After 1945 he participated in the founding of the German Conservative Party in Schleswig-Holstein , which already merged with the German Reconstruction Party to form the German Conservative Party - German Right Party in March 1946 . On the part of the DKP-DRP he was planned to be a member of the zone leadership of the new party together with Eldor Borck , but this failed due to the objection of the British military government .

Fonts

  • War generation and youth in the fight for freedom against Marxism. Brunnen-Verlag, Berlin 1929.
  • (under the pseudonym Insulanus ): Sylt. ( Illustrated book ) Flensburg undated (approx. 1950).
  • (under the pseudonym Insulanus ): Insulanus speaks. A series of articles by the Norddeutsche Rundschau. German book publisher, o. O. 1951.
  • Rethink or anarchy. Men, fates, lessons. Göttingen Publishing House, Göttingen 1959.

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 , pp. 319-320.
  • Klaus Schlegel: Otto Schmidt-Hannover died at the age of 83 in Westerland. ( Obituary ) In: Erbe und Einsatz , Born 1971, No. 6, pp. 141 ff.
  • Klaus Schlegel: Otto Schmidt-Hannover. Remembering an "upright" one. (on the 100th birthday) In: Erbe und Einsatz , born in 1988, No. 1, p. 8 f.
  • Maximilian Terhalle : Otto Schmidt (1888–1971). Opponent of Hitler and Intimus Hugenberg. Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , Bonn 2006. ( online as PDF document; 3.5 MB)
  • Maximilian Terhalle: German national in Weimar. The political biography of the Reichstag member Otto Schmidt (-Hannover) 1888–1971. Cologne et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20280-4 .
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Bremen-Vegesack registry office No. 215/1971.
  2. ^ Horst W. Schmollinger: German Conservative Party - German Right Party . In: Richard Stöss : Party Handbook. Westdeutscher Verlag , Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-531-11838-2 , p. 983, footnote 5.
  3. ^ Horst W. Schmollinger: German Conservative Party - German Right Party . In: Richard Stöss : Party Handbook. Westdeutscher Verlag , Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-531-11838-2 , p. 983.
  4. ^ Horst W. Schmollinger: German Conservative Party - German Right Party . In: Richard Stöss : Party Handbook. Westdeutscher Verlag , Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-531-11838-2 , p. 1018.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Hanover, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer, German politician (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Chisel
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1971
Place of death Bremen-Vegesack