Otto Thiel (politician)

Otto Thiel (born August 20, 1884 in Burscheid , Solingen district ; † November 19, 1959 in Cologne ) was a German association official and politician ( DVP ).

Live and act

Otto Thiel was born the son of a master butcher. After attending elementary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship. In the following years he worked as a commercial clerk for factory and export businesses in the Rhineland : During this time he took on responsibilities as an accountant, cashier and expert for business organizations. In November 1908, Thiel began to work as a functionary for the German National Trade Aid Association (DHV). From 1909 to 1914 he was the district chairman of the Association for Lower Saxony and Hanover.

From 1914 to 1916, Thiel took part in the First World War with the Reserve Infantry Regiment 74 . In October 1916 he was discharged from the army to take up a position in the main administration of the clerks' association. During the Kapp Putsch of March 1920, Thiel briefly negotiated with the putschists as a representative of the DHV before the DHV gave up contact with the putsch government and turned against them.

In 1919 Thiel joined the German People's Party (DVP) founded by Gustav Stresemann . From June 1920 to July 1932, Thiel sat on the Reich election proposal (June 1920 to May 1924 and May 1928 to April 1930) or as a representative of constituency 29 (Leipzig; May 1924 to May 1928 and April 1930 to July 1932) in the Reichstag . As a parliamentarian, Thiel was a member of the social policy committee. In 1932 Thiel left the DVP rejecting the course of Stresemann's successor as party chairman Eduard Dingeldey .

Thiel was also a co-founder and board member of the Central Working Group of Industrial and Commercial Employers and Employees in Germany as well as a co-founder and board member of the General Association of German Salaried Employees and the German Federation of Trade Unions . Furthermore, he was honorary chairman of the Central Association of German War Disabled and War survivors and a member of the supervisory board of the non-profit corporation for salaried homes in Greater Berlin and a similar company in Siemensstadt.

Thiel excelled in journalism through the publication of various socio-political writings and as an employee of specialist magazines such as Kultur des Kaufmanns , German Voices , The German Merchant Abroad and German Trade Guard.

Fonts

• The German private employees movement , Berlin 1920.
• The social tasks of reconstruction , Berlin 1921.
• Commercial Court Act , Hamburg 1922.
• On the crisis in German social policy , s. l. [Hamburg] 1924.
• The social policy of the German National Trade Aid Association , s. l. 1925.
• The social policy of the German clerks , Hamburg 1926.

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , pp. 200 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Thiel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto Thiel in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Otto Thiel in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic