Otto Stolten
Johannes Ernst Otto Stolten (* 4. April 1853 in Hamburg , † 8. January 1928 ) was a German politician of the SPD and the first social democrat in the Hamburg Parliament . From 1919 to 1925 he was Senator and Second Mayor of Hamburg.
Life
Otto Stolten was the son of a master locksmith who had moved from Segeberg . From 1861 to 1868 he attended the three-class Paßmann School at that time and an apprenticeship as a locksmith and mechanical engineer followed . As a journeyman craftsman , he traveled a large part of Germany between spring 1872 and autumn 1875. On this trip he joined the Social Democratic Labor Party in Dresden in 1874 .
Back in Hamburg he was co-editor of the citizen newspaper headed by Johannes Wedde until it was banned by the socialist laws . The successor newspaper, the Hamburger Echo , was continued as the responsible manager after Wedde was expelled by Otto Stolten.
He was the great-uncle of the actress and publicist Inge Stolten .
politics
In 1901 he was elected in part of Hammerbrooks as the first social democrat for the Hamburg citizenship. Until 1904 he sat there alone between the "old" factions. Only then did a parliamentary group of 13 social democrats form. He was a member of the Hamburg city council until 1927.
From 1919 to 1925 he was a member of the Senate as Second Mayor of Hamburg.
From 1913 to 1918 Stolten sat as a member of the SPD parliamentary group in the Reichstag of the German Empire . After he was elected to the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 , he was a member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1924 .
Honor
The Mayor Stolten Medal named after Otto Stolten is the highest civic honor in the city of Hamburg next to the award of honorary citizenship . It has been awarded since 1925. He was the first to be awarded the medal in autumn 1925.
The Stoltenpark in the Hamburg district of Hammerbrook and Stoltenstrasse in Hamburg-Horn are also named after Otto Stolten .
Written work
- Otto Stolten: Hamburg state institutions and Hamburg politics: how they are and how they should be; informational and critical considerations on the upcoming citizenship elections. Edited on behalf of the Social Democratic Party of Hamburg, Hamburg 1903.
- Otto Stolten: The struggle of social democracy for the town hall in Hamburg. Self-published by the Education Committee of the Social Democratic Party, Hamburg 1927.
literature
- Otto Stolten . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume 1: Deceased Personalities. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. GmbH, Hanover 1960, p. 304.
- Heinrich Erdmann (Red.): Hamburg in the first quarter of the 20th century. The time of the politician Otto Stolten. Seven treatises (= Hamburg in the first half of the 20th century 1). State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-929728-53-2 .
- Christiane Teetz: Otto Stolten (= Hamburg heads ). Ellert and Richter, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-89234-982-7 .
- Christiane Teetz: Otto Stolten and the social democracy in Hamburg up to the end of the imperial era (= publications of the Hamburg working group for regional history (HAR). Volume 17). Lit, Münster et al. 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6502-9 (also dissertation, University of Hamburg, 2002).
Web links
- Otto Stolten in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Literature by and about Otto Stolten in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Otto Stolten in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stolten, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stolten, Johannes Ernst Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdHB, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1928 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |