Otto Zimmermann (politician, 1898)

Otto Zimmermann (born January 1, 1898 in Strausberg , Oberbarnim district , † April 30, 1972 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Zimmermann attended elementary school and trained as a typesetter . In 1916 he joined the Association of German Book Printers . A year later he was drafted and joined the SPD after the First World War in 1919. In 1927 he became a civil servant foreman at the Brandenburg Provincial Association and was a city councilor. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Zimmermann was released because of his political activities according to Section 4 of the " Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service " and then held in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . From 1935 he was operations manager at a printing company , but was repeatedly imprisoned by the Gestapo .

After the Second World War , Zimmermann was initially a consultant in the Berlin district office in Lichtenberg and in 1947 he was elected to the district council for social affairs in Lichtenberg. Under pressure from the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) he had to resign in December 1948 and then became head of the budget office in the ( West Berlin ) district office of Neukölln . After the Berlin election in 1954 , Zimmermann was elected to the district councilor by the district council in the Kreuzberg district, and in May 1962 he retired. In the 1963 election he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which he was a member until 1967.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 408.