Otto Beck [SEP] position held
Otto Beck
Otto Beck (30 March 1846 – 19 May 1908) was a German politician, and former senior mayor for Mannheim from 1891 to 1908. Moreover, by having founded the "Handelshochschule Mannheim" together with Heinrich Gothein in 1907, he is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the University of Mannheim.
Education.
Beck was born in Krautheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He studied law at the Heidelberg University until 1871, where he obtained his "Staatsexamen" (equivalent to Juris Doctor
time as being involved in the coup attempt.
A.
- Major Wolfgang Abshagen (1897–1945)
- Colonel Otto Armster (1891–1957), Head of the counterintelligence ("Abwehr") station in Vienna; arrested on 23 July 1944 and held captive until the end of the war. Liberated but was later arrested and imprisoned by NKVD until 1955.
B.
- Colonel General Ludwig Beck, Chief of the German General Staff (1880–1944); attempted suicide when the plot failed and was murdered soon after. He