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Ottomar Geschke (1946)

Ottomar Georg Alexander Geschke (born November 16, 1882 in Fürstenwalde / Spree ; † May 17, 1957 in Lichtenfels (Upper Franconia) ) was a German politician ( KPD , SED ).

Life

Ottomar Geschke was the son of a blacksmith in Fürstenwalde. After attending elementary and middle school, he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith and later worked as a locksmith and fitter in Berlin. He had been involved in the labor movement since 1908, joined the DMV and the SPD in 1910 and switched to the USPD in 1917 in the course of the discussion about war credits . During the November Revolution of 1918 he belonged to the Revolutionary Obleuten and was a member of the Berlin Workers 'and Soldiers' Council .

Ottomar Geschke at the rally in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Kampfbahn (today Werner-Seelenbinder-Sportpark ) on September 9, 1945 (victim of Fascism Day)

Geschke, who was initially a member of the Spartakusbund , joined the KPD in 1919 and in 1920 became a functionary in the party's internal union department. In 1923 Ruth Fischer, Ernst Thälmann, Arthur König and Ottomar Geschke were co-opted into the KPD headquarters as representatives of the left party. Since 1925 he was a member of the Central Committee and the Politburo of the party. In addition, he was a member of the Executive Office of the Red Trade Union International (RGI) and since 1924 a member of the Executive Committee and the Presidium of the Communist International (KI). From 1921 to 1924 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament . In the Reichstag election in December 1924 , he was elected to the German Reichstag , to which he was a member until July 1932.

Due to his work in the resistance, Geschke sat repeatedly in prisons and concentration camps during the National Socialist era . After the National Socialists came to power, he was arrested in February 1933 and then held in the Lichtenburg , Sonnenburg and Buchenwald concentration camps. In 1940 he was released from the concentration camp and then placed under police supervision in Köslin . Following the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested again and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In May 1945 he was finally liberated by Allied troops on the death march .

After the end of the Nazi regime , Geschke served from May 19, 1945 to January 8, 1947 as city councilor for social welfare in the magistrate of Greater Berlin headed by Mayor Arthur Werner . He was a co-signer of the KPD's appeal on June 11, 1945 and became a member of the SED in April 1946 when the SPD and KPD were forced to merge . From 1946 to 1953 he was a member of the Berlin SED regional leadership. From 1947 to 1953 he acted as chairman of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN), for which he sat in the People's Chamber from 1950 to 1954 . In 1953 he became a member of the Presidium of the Committee of Anti-Fascist Resistance Fighters (KdAW).

tomb

Geschke died on May 17, 1957 on the way to Munich for the congress of the West German VVN. His urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists at the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde by the ring wall, that of his wife Olga, nee. Schulz in the Pergolenweg grave complex there .

Honors

• Ottomar-Geschke-Strasse in Berlin-Koepenick
• Ottomar-Geschke-Platz in Fürstenwalde / Spree
• Memorial plaque on the birthplace of Ottomar Geschke in Fürstenwalde / Spree, Grünstraße 14
• The 1st district extended secondary school in Fürstenwalde / Spree was called EOS Ottomar-Geschke Fürstenwalde between 1973 and 1991 .
• Ottomar-Geschke-Haus in Berlin-Karow , Bahnhofstrasse 52
• The 14th Polytechnic Oberschule (POS) in Berlin-Karow was called Ottomar Geschke between 1973 and 1991, and it was still a well-known youth club in Berlin-Karow, near today's Ottomar-Geschke-Haus
• The GDR Deutsche Post issued a special stamp on the occasion of Geschke's 100th birthday in 1982.

See also

• Magistrate Werner

Publications

• Friedrich Ebert's legacy. In order to elect the Reich President, this text must be read by every thinker . Friedrichstadtdruckerei, Berlin 1925.
• From the Imperial State Secretary Scheidemann to the monarchist Luther. (12 pictures from this republic) . Friedrichstadtdruckerei, Berlin 1925.
• Lenin and Ebert . Buka, Berlin-Johannisthal 1925.
• Paul Bertz , Ottomar Geschke: The Dorpmüller murder system. Speeches by the Communist Reichstag MPs Bertz and Geschke, Peuvag, Berlin 1929.
• Police paradise Germany . Verlag Tribunal, W. Pieck, Berlin 1930.
• The amnesty fraud. Death in the dungeon . Verlag Tribunal, W. Pieck, Berlin 1930.

literature

• Katja Haferkorn, Erika Kücklich: Geschke, Ottomar Georg Alexander . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 154–155.
• Hans Maur : Ottomar Geschke, role model and obligation. Biographical sketches of a life filled with struggle . Edited by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED, District Party Organization Frankfurt Oder, Frankfurt Oder 1982.
• Elke Sirotkin: Ottomar Geschke - a leading functionary of the KPD. Biobibliography . City and district library Frankfurt (Oder), Frankfurt (Oder) 1990. (= historical personalities of the Frankfurt / Oder district 3)
• Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Geschke, Ottomar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Lutz Heuer : "You the laurel, our duty", from the life of the anti-fascist and communist Ottomar Georg Alexander Geschke, * November 16, 1882, Fürstenwalde, † May 17 , 1957 , East Berlin, trafo Verlag Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3 -86464-057-5 .

Web links

Commons : Ottomar Geschke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ottomar Geschke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ottomar Geschke in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katja Haferkorn, Erika Kücklich: Geschke, Ottomar Georg Alexander . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 155.
2. ↑ Ottomar Geschke died in Neues Deutschland on May 18, 1957.
3. ↑ Ottomar-Geschke-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
4. ↑ 14. POS “Ottomar Geschke”, The history of the elementary school in Alt-Karow ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On grundschule-alt-karow.de.