Jump to content

Otto Landsberg: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
Yobot (talk | contribs)
Line 13: Line 13:
After the dissolution of the Cabinet Scheidemann, Landsberg was ambassador of Germany in Belgium from 1920 to 1923. He served a second term as deputy to the Reichstag from 1924 to 1933.
After the dissolution of the Cabinet Scheidemann, Landsberg was ambassador of Germany in Belgium from 1920 to 1923. He served a second term as deputy to the Reichstag from 1924 to 1933.


{{start box}}
{{s-start}}
{{s-off}}
{{s-off}}
{{succession box
{{succession box
Line 21: Line 21:
| after = [[Eugen Schiffer]]
| after = [[Eugen Schiffer]]
}}
}}
{{end box}}
{{s-end}}

<!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]] -->

{{DEFAULTSORT:Landsberg, Otto}}
[[Category:1869 births]]
[[Category:1957 deaths]]


{{German|Otto Landsberg|August 30, 2007}}
{{German|Otto Landsberg|August 30, 2007}}


<!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]] -->
{{Persondata
{{Persondata
|NAME=Landsberg, Otto
|NAME=Landsberg, Otto
Line 50: Line 45:
[[Category:Members of the Reichstag of the German Empire]]
[[Category:Members of the Reichstag of the German Empire]]
[[Category:Members of the Weimar National Assembly]]
[[Category:Members of the Weimar National Assembly]]
[[Category:Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic]]
[[Category:Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic]]
[[Category:People of the German Revolution of 1918–19]]
[[Category:People of the German Revolution of 1918–19]]
[[Category:People who emigrated to escape Nazism]]
[[Category:People who emigrated to escape Nazism]]

Revision as of 20:07, 2 January 2012

Otto Landsberg (December 4, 1869 – December 9, 1957) was a German jurist and politician.

Life

Landsberg was born in 1869 in Rybnik in the Province of Silesia. After passing the Abitur in 1887 in Ostrowo, he moved to Berlin to study law. In 1895, having passed the First (1890) and Second State Examination (1895), he opened a lawyer's office in Magdeburg. In the beginning of 1924, he moved it to Berlin, pleading the case for Friedrich Ebert in one of his defamation suits surrounding the Dolchstosslegende in 1925.

After 1933, Landsberg emigrated first to Czechoslovakia and Belgium, later to the Netherlands. He died in 1957 in Baarn.

Political career

Having joined the SPD in 1890, Landsberg was elected to the Reichstag for Magdeburg from 1912 to 1918. In 1919 and 1920, he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly. In this time, he was a member of the Council of the People's Deputies, being responsible for the press, arts and literature. In 1919, he was a member of the Cabinet Scheidemann as Minister of Justice.

After the dissolution of the Cabinet Scheidemann, Landsberg was ambassador of Germany in Belgium from 1920 to 1923. He served a second term as deputy to the Reichstag from 1924 to 1933.

Political offices
Preceded by Justice Minister of Germany
1919
Succeeded by

Template:German

Template:Persondata