Otto Stegmann

Otto Hugo Stegmann (born November 7, 1878 in Erfurt ; † July 20, 1935 there ) was a German politician ( SPD , USPD ). From 1932 to 1933 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament .

Life

Stegmann was the son of the wheelwright and book printer Friedrich Stegmann (1841-1912) and Friederike Stegmann (née Edelhof, * 1847). After attending a primary school in Erfurt, he completed an apprenticeship as a tool lathe operator, continued his private education and then worked as a lathe operator. In 1900 he moved from Erfurt to Weißenfels . He joined the SPD and was a member of the USPD from 1918, for which he was sent to the 2nd Council Congress in Berlin in April 1919 . When the USPD split in 1920, Stegmann refused to merge his party with the KPD . In 1922 he rejoined the majority socialists. From 1920 to 1933 he worked as party secretary, first for the USPD in Erfurt, then for the SPD in Sondershausen . He also worked as an editor for the stands in Erfurt and the Volksbote for Northern Thuringia in Sondershausen. Most recently he was head of the Volksbote branch in Stockhausen .

Stegmann was a member of the district council of the Sondershausen district from 1922 to 1933, where he was the top candidate of his party. In July 1932 he was elected to the Thuringian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1933.

Otto Stegmann married the widowed social welfare worker Else Pantet (née Sömmering, 1892–1979) in April 1921. His wife was also politically active and was a member of the Sondershausen district assembly for the SED after the Second World War .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952: Biographisches Handbuch (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, large series . Volume 1 , no. 4 ). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 619 .

Web links

• Otto Stegmann's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)