Ottomar Batzel

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Ottomar Albert Batzel (born November 6, 1900 in Gelnhausen , † December 9, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Batzel studied law and political science at the universities in Halle and Jena , and received his doctorate in 1929 as Dr. rer. pole. He had been a member of the German Center Party since 1919 . From 1929 Batzel worked at the union of the German farmers' associations and the Grenzmärkischer Bauernverein . In 1932 he became managing director of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany , but this Volksverein was banned by the National Socialists in 1933. Therefore, until 1945 he was mainly a freelance tax and foreign exchange consultant.

After the Second World War , Batzel immediately joined the CDU. He worked in the Berlin magistrate in the finance department and in the German Central Finance Administration in the Soviet zone of occupation . In 1948 he became chairman of the CDU Wilmersdorf. In the same year he ran for election to the city council of Greater Berlin in 1948 , but was not elected. It was not until Jakob Kaiser was elected member of the Bundestag in October 1949 that Batzel moved up to the city council. He was also elected in the first election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1950 and then in 1954 , and in February 1955 he resigned from parliament.

Batzel had already been elected district mayor of the Charlottenburg district in 1951 . In 1955 he became district mayor of the Wilmersdorf district for eleven months .

He was a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Sugambria (Jena) Göttingen and KAV Suevia Berlin .

Ottomar Batzel died in December 1971 and was buried in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Charlottenburg (today's Westend district ).

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  1. ^ Hainer Weißpflug: Batzel, Ottomar Albert . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7759-0479-4 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).