Otto Sperling (politician)

Otto Sperling (born May 19, 1902 in Berlin ; † June 10, 1985 in Haan , Düsseldorf administrative district ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Otto Sperling was the son of a civil servant and grew up in Berlin-Treptow . He attended elementary school and trained as a car mechanic . In 1919 he joined the Free Socialist Youth (FSJ), then the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJD) and finally the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He worked for the National Automobile Society (NAG) in Berlin-Oberschöneweide , during which time he also attended the Beuth Engineering School . In 1928 he joined the employees' association and soon became a works council at NAG. Because of his political and trade union work he was fired there in 1931, but quickly found another job as an employee.

After the " seizure " of the Nazis in 1933 Sperling made in the organization " New Beginning " illegal work and was detained in October 1935 where he in Columbia concentration camp was held. In 1936 the Berlin Court of Appeal sentenced him to three years in prison for “preparation for high treason ” , which he had to serve in the Brandenburg-Görden prison. After his release, he was drafted into the service.

After the Second World War , Sperling first worked at a car repair shop in Berlin-Spandau and from 1946 at the Angermünde district office . Through the union of the SPD and KPD , he became a member of the SED and returned to Berlin in 1947. In the following year he switched to the SPD and became company secretary. In the Berlin election in 1958 , Sperling was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives. Since the district councilor Kurt Arnold died in December 1960, the district assembly in the Steglitz district elected him as the new councilor for social affairs, so he resigned from parliament in February 1961, and Erich Reinhardt was his successor .

literature

Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 252-253 (331 pages).
Heinrich-Wilhelm Wörmann: Resistance in Köpenick and Treptow (= series of publications on the resistance in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. No. 9). German Resistance Memorial Center , Berlin 1995, p. 89.