Otto Wittenburg

Otto Wittenburg (born May 2, 1891 in Grevenhagen, today part of Alt Meteln ; † December 1, 1976 ) was a German bank director, officer and politician of the German Party (DP).

From 1914 to 1918 he did military service in the army. After an apprenticeship in banking, which he began before the outbreak of war, he worked as a manager at Deutsche Bank in Danzig. In 1921 he became a bank director in Berlin. From 1930 he was the tenant of a manor in Mecklenburg, which was expropriated with the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945. In 1939 he joined the Wehrmacht air force, where he became an officer. He was u. a. used as first general staff officer (Ia), his last rank was lieutenant colonel .

After the Second World War he worked as a farmer in Dragow.

Wittenburg, who was a member of the NSDAP from 1937 , was initially close to the German Conservative Party in Schleswig-Holstein after 1945 , but then became a member of the German Party. Wittenburg was the first state chairman of his party in Schleswig-Holstein. Through the supplementary list, he was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1957. From September 5, 1950 to June 25, 1951, he was also State Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests and Justice in the Bartram cabinet in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1949 and 1954 he was a member of the Federal Assembly . From 1946 to 1970 he was mayor of Labenz .

In a confidential conversation monitored by the MfS in 1956 with Karl Brincker (KPD / SED), who had saved him from internment by the Soviets, “[he] advocated direct talks with the SED and described Adenauer's policy in Germany and the West as wrong, although Wittenburg's German party formed a coalition with Adenauer's Union. According to the findings of the MfS, Wittenburg [was] chairman of the association of former large landowners in the eastern zone. "

literature

Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 965.

Web links

Otto Wittenburg in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein
Otto Wittenburg , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 42/1951 of October 8, 1951, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

↑ Jessica von Seggern: Old and New Democrats in Schleswig-Holstein. Democratization and new formation of a political elite at district and state level from 1945 to 1950. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08801-6 , p. 212.
^ BStU : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Report to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, Berlin 2013, p. 200ff. ( PDF ( Memento of November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).

personal data
SURNAME	Wittenburg, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer and politician (DP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grevenhagen , today part of Alt Meteln
DATE OF DEATH	1st December 1976

[von_Seggern,_2005,_212-1] Jessica von Seggern: Old and New Democrats in Schleswig-Holstein. Democratization and new formation of a political elite at district and state level from 1945 to 1950. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08801-6 , p. 212.

[2] BStU : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Report to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, Berlin 2013, p. 200ff. ( PDF ( Memento of November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).