Otto Vesper

Otto Vesper (born May 15, 1875 in Berlin , † July 28, 1923 in Osnabrück ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Live and act

Otto Vesper was born the son of a locksmith. After attending primary school, he learned the upholstery trade from 1890 to 1894. After his journeyman migration, he practiced this profession until 1902. From 1902 to 1906 he worked as a workers secretary in Osnabrück . From 1907 to 1909 he was the central chairman of the upholstery association in Berlin, and from 1910 to 1912 he was again a workers secretary in Osnabrück. Since 1912 Vesper was also an employee of the editorial staff of the Osnabrücker Abendpost , a local political newspaper close to the SPD.

After he had already been mayor of the city of Osnabrück from 1913 to 1918, Vesper became a member of the city's magistrate in autumn 1918. From January 1919 to June 1920 Vesper sat as a member of the Social Democratic Party with a mandate for constituency 15 (Osnabrück-Aurich district) in the Weimar National Assembly . In the summer of 1919 Vesper took over the management of the newly established employment office in the city of Osnabrück.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 .

Web links

• Otto Vesper in the database of members of the Reichstag