Auf der Heide was born in New York City on December 8, 1874, and attended the public schools. He moved with his parents to West New York, New Jersey, in 1887, where he later was engaged in the real estate business.

He was a member of the town council from 1899 to 1902, and was a member and president of the board of education of the West New York School District in 1903–04. Auf der Heide was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1908 to 1911. He served on the board of assessors of West New York in 1912 and 1913 and was Mayor of West New York, New Jersey, from 1914 to 1917. He was elected as a member and subsequently a director of the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders, serving in office from 1915 to 1924.

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Auf der Heide was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1925, until January 3, 1935. In redistricting following the United States census, 1930, he was shifted to the newly created 14th congressional district. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.

After leaving Congress, he resumed the real estate and insurance business.

He died in West New York, New Jersey, on March 29, 1945, aged 70, and was interred in Hoboken Cemetery in North Bergen.^{[citation needed]}

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• United States Congress. "Oscar L. Auf der Heide (id: A000338)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Oscar L. Auf der Heide at Find a Grave