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Otto Weihrauch (born February 14, 1898 in Oberaltstadt , Kingdom of Bohemia ; † March 5, 1966 in Bad Doberan or, according to other information, 1982 in Cottbus ) was a German politician ( KSČ until 1920 , then KPD and from 1946 SED ). From 1946 to 1949 he was Lord Mayor of Cottbus.

Life

Otto Weihrauch was born as the son of a tailor in Oberaltstadt near Trautenau in the Kingdom of Bohemia. There he attended an elementary school and then began an apprenticeship as a book printer . From 1917 he completed military service in the Austro-Hungarian army and fought in the First World War . After the war, Weihrauch joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, but was expelled from the party as early as 1920 because of "left deviations". In 1920 Weihrauch was a co-founder of the KPČ in Gartitz in the district of Aussig , from 1921 he was a member of the KPČ district management in the district of Aussig .

In 1926 Weihrauch took over editorial work for the communist daily newspaper Die Internationale . In the same year he also had to serve a four-month prison sentence for "organizing armed stewardship formations". In 1928 he took part in the World Congress of the Communist International in Moscow . From 1934 Weihrauch worked as a printer in the Grafia workers' printing works in Prague , and in 1938 he became chief accountant of the Trautenau electricity company.

After the occupation of Czechoslovakia , Weihrauch moved to Luckenwalde at the end of 1945 . There he worked in the economic sector of the KPD district leadership and was also the managing director of the textile company. On April 5, 1946, Weihrauch was appointed as the successor to Max Döring as Lord Mayor of Cottbus and was confirmed in his office in the municipal elections on November 8, 1946.

In 1949, Weihrauch was deposed as Lord Mayor of Cottbus and arrested in Potsdam in December of the same year . On June 19, 1950, he was sentenced to ten years in prison and a fine of 10,000 marks for financial manipulation, failure to report and personal enrichment . He was released on March 31, 1956. Attempts to redress the wrongful conviction by awarding them a state award were rejected by Weihrauch.

Web links

• Portrait at the city of Cottbus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Who was who in the GDR. Federal foundation to come to terms with the SED dictatorship , accessed on December 23, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Otto Weihrauch. In: lr-online.de. Lausitzer Rundschau , February 14, 2008, accessed on December 23, 2017 . 
3. ↑ The Lord Mayors of the City of Cottbus. In: cottbus.de. City of Cottbus, accessed on December 23, 2017 .