Otto Sturmfels

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Otto Sturmfels

Otto Philipp Jakob Sturmfels (born May 19, 1880 in Seligenstadt ; † April 2, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a Hessian lawyer , notary , politician ( Social Democratic Party of Germany ) and a former member of the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic .

family

Otto Sturmfels was the son of the Protestant pastor and dean Georg Sturmfels and his wife Sophie nee Rau. Sturmfels, who was a Protestant denomination (he later left the church) grew up with six sisters (the five sisters Käthe , Gustl , Lies , Anna and Alex Winna and sister Alexandra from his father's first marriage) and married Maud, born Richards, in 1906 -Adams whom he had met through family visits from England. From this marriage there were six children.

education and profession

Otto Sturmfels attended high school in Darmstadt and Hanau and then studied law in Giessen and Berlin from 1898 to 1902 . From 1903 to 1904 he was a court assessor in Seligenstadt and Darmstadt and from 1906 to 1933 a lawyer in Groß-Umstadt . From 1920 he was also a notary in Groß-Umstadt and from May 1927 in Darmstadt. In 1916 and 1917 he participated in the First World War and had to remain in French captivity until 1920.

politics

Otto Sturmfels joined the SPD in 1909. In 1910 in Magdeburg , 1911 in Jena and 1912 in Chemnitz , he represented his region as a delegate at the congresses of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In 1910 he was the first SPD candidate in the Reichelsheim electoral district to run for the state election. 1910 and 1913 still unsuccessful in the municipal council elections in Umstadt, he was from 1913 until he was drafted into military service and again from 1920 deputy chairman of the Umstadt SPD local association. As early as March 6, 1921, the SPD reunited with the USPD at a unification meeting in Umstadt , and Otto Sturmfels was elected First Chairman. He held the office until 1926, but left Umstadt local politics in 1927 because he had been appointed as a notary in Darmstadt.

From 1921 to 1931 he was a member of the state parliament in the Hessian state parliament in Darmstadt for three electoral terms. At the same time he worked as a legal advisor for the Hessian SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament. After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he had to hire a lawyer his work. He was arrested on June 21, 1933, primarily because of his close ties to Carlo Mierendorff , who was arrested during a conspiratorial meeting with Sturmfels on June 13, 1933 in the Frankfurt Cafe Excelsior . He was accused of conspiracy against the Nazi regime and in September 1933 to 18 months in prison convicted. In the summer of 1944, after the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, he was arrested again and taken to the Dachau concentration camp. He died there shortly before the end of the war.

A stumbling stone in Hermannstrasse 45 in Darmstadt has been remembering Otto Sturmfels since October 6, 2014 . A street in Groß-Umstadt was named after him.

Publications

  • (Ed.) Otto Sturmfels: Hessian municipal code of July 10, 1931 with subsidiary laws (commented by O. Sturmfels), Darmstadt 1931

literature

  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 252.
  • Article Otto Sturmfels. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , Stuttgart 2006, p. 904.
  • Eckhart G. Franz , Manfred Köhler: Parliament in the fight for democracy. The Landtag of the People's State of Hesse 1919-1933. Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 1991, p. 639.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 377.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , pp. 895-896.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Working group Stolpersteine ​​Darmstadt: Documentation Otto Sturmfels. Stumbling block laying in Darmstadt on October 6, 2014, Hermannstr. 45 , p. 1
  2. ↑ It started with Adam Zibulsky ... , Festschrift of the SPD local association Groß-Umstadt for the 100th anniversary, Groß-Umstadt 2003 (PDF file, 672 kB), pp. 20–28; accessed on February 1, 2017
  3. ^ Richard Albrecht: The militant social democrat: Carlo Mierendorff 1897 to 1943: a biography , Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 1987, p. 119
  4. ^ Richard Albrecht: Der militante Sozialdemokrat: Carlo Mierendorff 1897 to 1943: a biography , Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 1987, p. 139
  5. ^ Working group Stolpersteine ​​Darmstadt: Documentation Otto Sturmfels. Stumbling block laying in Darmstadt on October 6, 2014, Hermannstr. 45 (PDF file, 650 kB), on stadtatlas.darmstadt.de ; accessed on August 22, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Sturmfels, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sturmfels, Otto Philipp Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD); Member of the State Parliament of Hessen
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Seligenstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1945
Place of death Dachau concentration camp