Otto Schneider (politician, 1904)

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Otto Schneider (born November 8, 1904 in Neumark , † December 22, 1992 in Zwickau ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1954 to 1958 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Zwickau.

Life

After attending elementary school, tailor learned the trade of weaver. He became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and from 1929 to 1933 was a community representative of the KPD in Reuth, Reichenbach district. After 1933 he did illegal resistance work and was imprisoned in the penitentiary and in the Aschendorfer Moor concentration camp for years . He had to do military service in the penalty battalion 999 and was a prisoner of war until 1947.

After returning to the Soviet occupation zone , he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and in 1948 mayor of Reinsdorf . In 1949 he became secretary for local politics of the SED district leadership in Zwickau, in 1950 city councilor for the interior of Zwickau. From 1953 to 1954 he acted as chairman of the council of the Hohenstein-Ernstthal district . From 1954 to 1958 he held the office of Lord Mayor of Zwickau and from September 1958 to April 1961 he was 1st Deputy Chairman of the District Council and at the same time a member of the Karl-Marx-Stadt District Assembly . From June 1961 to March 1967 he was finally chairman of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district revision commission of the SED. He then worked as deputy chairman of the district commission for the care of old deserving party members. In October 1984 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 310.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Central Committee of the SED congratulates Comrade Otto Schneider . In: Neues Deutschland , November 8, 1984, p. 2.
  2. ^ Highest awards on the 35th anniversary of the GDR . In: Neues Deutschland, October 5, 1984, p. 5.