Otto Hörsing
Otto Hörsing | |
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Prussian Landtag | |
| In office 1924–1933 | |
| Chairman of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold | |
| In office 1924–1932 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 July 1874 Groß Schilleningken, Province of Prussia |
| Died | 16 August 1937 (aged 63) Berlin |
| Political party | SPD Sozial-Republikanische Partei Deutschlands |
| Occupation | blacksmith |
Friedrich Otto Hörsing (18 July 1874 – 16 August 1937) was a German social democratic politician.
Biography
Hörsing was born in Groß Schilleningken near
German Association of Metalworkers in Upper Silesia in 1905 and District Secretary of the SPD in Oppeln (1906–1914).[1]
He served in the
Kattowitz
in 1919.
In 1919 and 1920 Hörsing was the Reichs- und Staatskommissar for Silesia and Posen and the Oberpräsident of the Province of Saxony in 1920 until 1927.[2]
He was a member of the
Prussian Landtag (1924–1933). Hörsing represented the Province of Saxony in the Reichsrat in 1922–1930 and was a co-founder and the first Chairman of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold (1924–32), which he described as a 'non-partisan protection organization of the Republic and democracy in the fight against the swastika and the soviet star'.[3] In 1932, Hörsing founded the Sozial-Republikanische Partei Deutschlands after he was expelled from the SPD and the Reichsbanner. In the Reichstag election of November 1932, this new organization received only 8,395 votes.[4]
Following the
Nazi
take over in 1933, they banned all opposition parties and discontinued Hörsing's pension benefits. He died impoverished in Berlin in 1937.
References
- University of Magdeburg(in German)
- ^ Biography at Friedrich Ebert Foundation (in German)
- ^ Osterroth, Franz; Schuster, Dieter (1980). "Chronik der deutschen Sozialdemokratie" (in German). Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
- ^ "Deutschland: Wahl zum 7. Reichstag 1932". www.gonschior.de.
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