Otto Buchwitz

Otto Buchwitz
Otto Buchwitz
	Buchwitz in 1947
Chairman of the; Central Party Control Commission
	In office; 29 November 1948 – 24 July 1950 Serving with Hermann Matern
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Hermann Matern
Chairman of the; Socialist Unity Party in Saxony
	In office; 21 April 1946 – 4 December 1948 Serving with Wilhelm Koenen
Deputy	Erich Mückenberger
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Erich Mückenberger
Preceded by
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Volkskammer
	In office; 8 November 1950 – 9 July 1964
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Heinz Franke
Member of the Reichstag ; for Liegnitz
	In office; 27 May 1924 – 7 July 1933
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Otto Buchwitz; 27 April 1879; Breslau, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Wrocław, Poland)
Died	9 July 1964 (aged 85); Dresden, Bezirk Dresden, East Germany
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1964)
Other political; affiliations	Social Democratic Party; (1898–1946)
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Metal Worker;
Awards	Order of Karl Marx; Hero of Labour; Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Lenin Peace Prize; Banner of Labor;
	Central institution membership 1946–1964: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1949–1950: Member,; Provisional Volkskammer ; 1948–1949: Member,; German People's Council ; 1946–1952: President,; Landtag of Saxony ; 1946–1952: Member,; Landtag of Saxony ; 1921–1924: Member,; Landtag of Prussia ;

Otto Buchwitz (27 April 1879 – 9 July 1964) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism, politician and party functionary of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Socialist Unity Party (SED).

A Social Democratic politician in the Weimar Republic, Buchwitz went into exile in Denmark until being arrested and imprisoned in 1940. After the war, he supported the forced merger of the SPD and KPD and subsequently co-chaired the SED in Saxony and, briefly, the powerful Central Party Control Commission (ZPKK).

His career was cut short in 1950, when former Social Democrats were largely purged from party functions.

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