Otto Schultz (politician)

Otto Ernst Oskar Schultz (born June 28, 1882 in Teyendorf near Uelzen , Hanover Province , today in Rosche ; † February 26, 1951 in Euskirchen ) was a German politician (MDB) and landowner . From 1921 to 1922 he was Minister for Agriculture, Domains and Forests in the State Ministry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Live and act

Otto Schultz was the son of the landowner Jean Schultz and his wife Anna, b. Neubauer. After the rector's school in Lüchow , he attended the commercial college in Osnabrück. He then studied at the Institute for Fermentation Industry at the Agricultural University in Berlin. He completed commercial training in Leipzig and agricultural training in Schleswig-Holstein, Westphalia and Hanover. He later went on educational trips through Europe.

In 1908, Schultz took over his father's agricultural distillery in Lüchow. He also founded a drying plant and potato flake factory in nearby Bergen . From 1914 he did military service. After returning from the First World War , he took over his father's estate at Heidhof near Dömitz at the end of 1918 . Under his ownership, the company developed into one of the most important vegetable growing companies in Mecklenburg.

Schultz was a member of the Mecklenburg Village Association (MDB). On April 21, 1921, the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin elected him Minister for Agriculture, Domains and Forests in the State Ministry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . He belonged to the second cabinet of Prime Minister Johannes Stelling . His resignation on April 25, 1922 was at his own request. The reasons given were hostility to the State Minister and the Ministry of Agriculture from the state parliament, as well as the death of his father-in-law, which is why he had to be permanently present at his company.

Schultz held various offices. Among other things, he was chairman of the rural experimental ring and the agricultural association Dömitz und Umgebung, chairman of the board and member of the supervisory board of several agricultural companies, the Mecklenburg Chamber of Agriculture and the German Agriculture Council . He was also involved in local politics in the municipal council of Heidhof.

In 1933 Schultz was dismissed from all offices under pressure from the NSDAP . According to his own statements, he came into conflict with the National Socialists due to critical statements about the Nazi agricultural policy . He was initially sentenced to a fine and briefly arrested by the Gestapo in 1938. Only because of his important contribution to the “people's food” was he released with the threat of being sent to a concentration camp for further offenses.

In October 1945, despite objections, Schultz was expropriated and driven from his estate in the course of the land reform . After that he lived in Lüchow. In 1951 he died at the age of 68 in Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Otto Schultz was with Eva (* 1884), b. Wächtler and widowed Steffens, married. He had four children with her, two of whom were adopted stepchildren.

literature

• Schultz, Otto. In: Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. A biographical lexicon. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 , pp. 275-276.
• Schultz, Otto E. Osc. In: Hermann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries. 10th edition, Leipzig 1935.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schultz, Otto E. Osc. In: Hermann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries. 10th edition, Leipzig 1935. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, Part 2, p. 346.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Schultz, Otto. In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 275.