Otto Thielemann (politician)

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Otto Thielemann (* 12. January 1891 in Braunschweig ; † 17th March 1938 in the Dachau concentration camp ) was a German SPD - politician and newspaper editor. He was a member of the Braunschweig Landtag from 1924 to 1933 , actively opposed National Socialism and was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp after being mistreated and in so-called protective custody .

Life

The trained businessman took part in the First World War from 1916 to 1918 . After the November Revolution in 1918, he joined the USPD and switched to the SPD in 1922. From October 1921 to October 1922 he was editor of the USPD newspaper Freiheit in Braunschweig . He then worked from November 1922 to 1933 as an editor of the social democratic daily Braunschweiger Volksfreund , of which he was most recently editor-in-chief. Thielemann was chairman of the local SPD association and had been a member of the SPD district executive since 1929. He was also a board member of the German Peace Society in Braunschweig and was active in the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold .

He was one of the sharpest critics of the Braunschweig National Socialists , who had been involved in the government of the state / Free State of Braunschweig since 1930 . Thielemann made the following critical question about the naturalization of Adolf Hitler , which was promoted by the National Socialist Interior Minister Dietrich Klagges and who was given a pro forma position as a Braunschweig government councilor:

"What jobs has the government councilor Hitler been able to assign to the Braunschweig economy and what work has he done for the state of Braunschweig?"

Street sign in memory of Otto Thielemann

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", social democratic members of the state parliament were forced to renounce their mandate in the spring of 1933. Thielemann stubbornly refused, was then severely mistreated in the Volksfreundhaus, forced to resign from his mandate and then taken into “ protective custody ”. On 19 April 1934 it sentenced a special court after the treachery law because of a derogatory remark about the German government for a three-year prison term. In July 1936 he was interned in the Dachau concentration camp and murdered there on March 17, 1938. Meanwhile, a street named after him in Braunschweig's eastern ring area commemorates him.

Fonts (selection)

  • The fanatic of Bazancourt. Braunschweig 1921.
  • Pure God, man. 1924.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Maser, Heinz Hähne: Adolf Hitler: Aufriß über mein Person . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1973, p. 130 ( online - 7 May 1973 ).
personal data
SURNAME Thielemann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) and newspaper editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1938
Place of death Dachau concentration camp