Otto Landsberg

Otto Landsberg (December 4, 1869 – December 9, 1957) was a German jurist and politician. 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. Having joined the SPD in 1890, Landsberg was elected to the Reichstag for Magdeburg from 1912 to 1918. In 1919...