Otto Nuschke

Who was Otto Nuschke?

Otto Nuschke was a German politician.

Nuschke was born in Frohburg in the Kingdom of Saxony. In 1910 he was elected General Secretary of the liberal Progressive People's Party of Kassel. In the same year he became chief editor of the Berliner Tageblatt and in 1915 co-editor of the Berliner Volkszeitung.

Nuschke soon joined the Liberal Union, left-wing liberal organisation, and became its general secretary of Kassel in 1906. As this group fused with other left-liberal organisations to form the Progressive People's Party, Nuschke became the general secretary of the new party in Kassel.

In 1918 he took part in establishing the German Democratic Party. In 1919 he was a delegate of the German Democratic Party to the National Congress of Weimar and from 1921 to 1933 he was a member of the Reichstag for the German Democratic Party. In 1920s Nuschke was at times the deputy chairman of the German Democratic Party. Nuschke was one of the founders of the republican Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and became the general secretary of the German State Party in 1931.