Otto Wiemer

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Otto Wiemer (born January 27, 1868 in Tilsit ; † February 11, 1931 in Berlin ) was a lawyer, publicist and a leading liberal politician at the end of the German Empire .

Wiemer studied 1886-1889 jurisprudence at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1890 for Dr. jur. He worked as an economic and political journalist. In 1903 he became the syndic of the Berlin paper processing cooperative and later administrative director.

Wiemer had been an unpaid city councilor in Berlin from 1908 and city ​​elder from 1920 . He was a supporter of Eugen Richter and was chairman of the executive committee of the Liberal People's Party between 1908 and 1910 , and later of its successor organization, the Progressive People's Party , from 1912 to 1918 .

Between 1898 and 1918 he was a member of the Reichstag and was for a time group chairman of the Progressive People's Party. At the same time he was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . After the November Revolution he belonged to the group of the party that joined the German People's Party . From 1921 until his death Wiemer was a member of the Prussian state parliament and from 1924 vice president of the house.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 416 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)

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SURNAME Wiemer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (FVP, FVp, DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Tilsit
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1931
Place of death Berlin