Friedrich Wilhelm Elchlepp

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Friedrich Wilhelm Elchlepp (born March 18, 1897 in Stendal ; † November 6, 1956 in Erfurt ) was a German teacher and curator.

Life

He was born as the son of the Stendal Magistrate Secretary Otto Elchlepp. The First World War was for Elchlepp as war volunteers after four years of service in an AA Regiment and awarded the Iron Cross ended as a lieutenant of the reserve. The SPD member Friedrich Elchlepp, who could be called "Fritz", initially worked as a teacher at the secondary school of the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale . From 1923 to 1929 Elchlepp was head of the Heyrothsberge hard stone works . From November 1929 to March 1930 Elchlepp continued his teaching profession as a study assessor at a high school in Oschersleben and left school as a teacher on the 31st of the month. Elchlepp was appointed to the position of second director of the Wolfenbüttel prison in 1930 and in 1931 Elchlepp got a job as a teacher at the Berlin Police Vocational School. On the "Personalblatt A for directors, academic teachers and candidates for higher teaching post" there is an entry that Elchlepp was "Protestant creed (religion)" at that time. He was sworn in to the Weimar Constitution on April 25, 1922 and the state constitution on the same day, and the beginning of his seniority for higher education in Prussia began on April 1 of the following year.

In the “Third Reich” Elchlepp ran a children's home in Bad Suderode after he had been removed from the school service of the Berlin Police Vocational School - like almost all active members of the democratic parties. As a teacher at the police vocational school, Elchlepp lived in the Berlin district of Treptow. After his departure from Berlin, the student adviser (ret.) Dealt with family and genealogy research in addition to managing the rest home for children and self-published a magazine in Bad Suderode from 1935 to 1937 . In the final phase of the Second World War , the former lieutenant from 1917 was made compulsory by the Volkssturm and deployed according to his officer ranks, but was able to get rid of their weapons and uniforms with his Volkssturm men - even before the arrival of the Americans.

Life after 1945

Immediately after the Second World War, Elchlepp worked temporarily as district administrator for the district of Quedlinburg , but was transferred to the Ministry of Education of the Provincial Government of Saxony-Anhalt in the Soviet Zone on October 1, 1945 at his own request . From December 1945 Elchlepp succeeded the unencumbered university curator, Friedrich Tromp (* 1875, † 1954), who was still in office after the end of the war, and in this capacity was the representative of the education minister of the provincial government of Saxony-Anhalt at the University of Halle . At that time the Protestant theologian Otto Eißfeldt was rector there .

In the role of university curator, Elchlepp had the right to object to the rector's suggestions for appointments and made use of it several times, for example in the case of law professor Arthur Wegner (* 1900; † 1989). and with the intended reappointment of the former Halle professor Waldemar Mitscherlich (* 1877; † 1961), who after his return to the city of Saale in 1946 held representations and exercises at the MLU until 1947. In other cases, Elchlepp sought the return of former Halle professors from exile. So the curator wrote through the medium of his famous teacher / headmaster in 1946 to the former Halle classical scholar Paul Friedlander (1882 to 1968) and to the former university professor Richard Laqueur (1881 to 1959), the Jewish because of their descent in Nazi Germany from the Martin Luther University were ousted and dismissed as to whether they would not return to the University of Halle. For various reasons, however, his efforts were unsuccessful with both scientists. Elchlepp was initially intended for the preparation of a ministerially ordered university celebration in the auditorium on September 13, 1947, at which those persecuted by the Nazi regime were to be honored from the teaching staff from 1933 to 1945, including the economist and political scientist Waldemar Mitscherlich. In 1941 he had to leave the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg because of another political clash with National Socialist students. The curator was able to hand over the organizational preparation of the celebration to those responsible for the content, to the rector Eißfeldt, the senate and the student body, thanks to a decree by the education minister Thape .

Hall: workplaces of the curator Elchlepp and the rector (left building next to the Thomasianum / center of the picture), Universitätsplatz 10

Curator Elchlepp and the Soviet university officer, Major Rosenbaum , showed moral courage in 1946 when he urged SMAD to have a group of LDP students from Halle arrested in 1946 be released on short notice. From March 1947, the curator received legal support from a university syndicate, one of his acquaintances from Bad Suderode and Quedlinburg, the doctorate in law Dietrich Wilde , who later characterized Elchlepp as a “master of political tactics” after his escape to western Germany. In mid-February 1948, the curator campaigned for the state government of Saxony-Anhalt to quickly appoint the socialist Leo Kofler as professor of history and the philosophy of history, since his interest was particularly in dialectical and historical materialism.

Elchlepp was also responsible for the administration of the former Francke Foundations , which he had got to know in detail as a student trainee in 1922 at the secondary school located there. As university curator, the later Dr. phil. In 1947 Elchlepp took the initiative to found the university archive and entrusted the former student councilor Friedrich Prillwitz (* 1892; † 1962) with the development and management. In September 1948, curator Elchlepp supported the appointment of the lawyer and former SPD member Willi Brundert as professor for economic, tax and administrative law at the Martin Luther University in a letter to the minister of education on the grounds that his lectures - in contrast to other lecturers of the law faculty - are structured "according to Marxist points of view". After the end of his activity as a curator due to the abolition of the board of trustees at the University of Halle - as at all universities of the Soviet zone - Elchlepp became ministerial conductor in the Ministry for Popular Education, Art and Science in Halle (Saale) under Minister Ernst Thape and then - under the acting minister of education Richard Schallock - Head of the School Department.

Elchlepp is counted among the victims of totalitarianism in a study . He was controversial in his administration. In 1950 the former curator was accused of embezzlement and detained for six months without interrogation or charge, but was rehabilitated by the SED in 1951 . From August 1953 Elchlepp was director of the Waldsieversdorf high school in the then Frankfurt / Oder district and then a high school teacher in Erkner and later in Erfurt .

Private

Friedrich W. Elchlepp was married. The marriage produced a son and a daughter. His son was the rear admiral of the People's Navy Friedrich Elchlepp . His grandfather Otto Elchlepp established the family tradition that up to the great-grandchildren's generation, one son was given the first name "Friedrich". Friedrich W. Elchlepp died in Erfurt at the age of 60.

Non-fiction author

Elchlepps' place of work in Bad Suderode (photo 2014), house Brinkstrasse 32, 34; left house number 34 right number 32

Friedrich Elchlepp wrote the story of the Elchleb-Elchlep-Elchlepp-Elgleb family and self -published the multi-part work in Bad Suderode in 1937. The knightly family of Elchleben is part of this work that the author wrote in his former home in Bad Suderoder, at Brinkstraße 32 . Elchlepp wrote an article in 1945 under the heading The Spirit of the New School , in which he spoke out in favor of the "unified school as the school of the future".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Personalbogen Elchlepp, Friedrich, status: 1924; page 1
  2. ↑ Personal form in BBF archive database in Berlin, p. 2; Awarded January 1, 1917
  3. ^ Rejection of the honorary contest of student trainee Fritz Elchlepp in Stendal against the Halle stud. phil. Dr. Lampe and Rocke because of their statements about his membership in the SPD. In: Jürgen Kloosterhuis: Sources on university, student and corporation history in the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage ... p. 163, 2nd part
  4. ^ Note on page 1 of the personal data of teachers in Prussia , here: Elchlepp, Friedrich; BBF archive database Berlin ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
  5. ^ Elchlepp, Friedrich's curriculum vitae in: Catalogus professorum halensis ; curator
  6. ↑ Personal form in BBF archive database Berlin; Page 1 ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
  7. ↑ Personal form in BBF archive database Berlin; P. 2 no. 7 b)
  8. ^ Memories of the Martin Luther University 1945–89. A discussion with contemporary witnesses. In: Hermann-Josef Rupieper (Hrsg.): Hallische contributions to contemporary history . Issue 3/1997, pp. 25f.
  9. ↑ "Lifelong Police" by Dr. phil. Erich Krüger, also a "civilian teacher" at the Berlin Police Vocational School, letter to the editor of October 21, 1931, printed in Vossische Zeitung . Fifth supplement from October 25, 1931.
  10. ↑ Elchlepp, Friedrich . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1934, part 1, p. 488 (In the Berlin address books 1932, 1933 and 1934, the job title Studienrat is last with the addition a. D. in Part IV p. 1731 column 5 under the residential address: Neukölln, Berliner Str. 56/57 specified.).
  11. ^ Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the protection team: Berlin 1848–1973. Ed .: The Police President in Berlin, publisher: Haupt and Koska, Berlin, 1973, p. 38; DNB 943200393
  12. ↑ 150 years of the Schutzmannschaft: Berlin 1848–1998 . "Festschrift" Ed .: The Police President in Berlin (1998), p. 79
  13. ↑ Elchlepp, Friedrich, Stud.-Rat, Treptow, Defreggerstr. 4 in: Official telephone book for Berlin and the surrounding area 1932. Published by the Oberpostdirektion Berlin. (Completed October 31, 1931).
  14. ↑ Bad Suderode: 1935 / 36.1 (Aug.) - 1937, 10/1 (published irregularly); DNB portal .
  15. ↑ Dietrich Wilde: In those years. Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-5364-0 , p. 33.
  16. ↑ Dietrich Wilde: In those years. Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-5364-0 , p. 150.
  17. ↑ II. Academic Administration Universitätsplatz 10 Rector: Prof. Eißfeldt, Otto; Address book Halle 1946/47 .
  18. ^ Memories of the Martin Luther University 1945–89. A discussion with contemporary witnesses. In: Hermann-Josef Rupieper (Hrsg.): Hallische contributions to contemporary history . Issue 3/1997, pp. 21f.
  19. ^ Elchlepp considered Wegner intolerable because of earlier monarchist statements; catalogus professorum halensis
  20. ^ Accusation of the curator: "capitalist reactionary attitude"; University Archive Halle (UAH) Personnel File (PA) 11499 Mitscherlich; Rep. 6 No. 1407; quoted from:
  21. ↑ Arthur Köhn (* 1893); Personal card for the teacher Arthur Fritz Köhn in the archive database of the library for research on the history of education in Berlin ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
  22. ↑ Elchlepp received the address of Prof. Friedländer in the USA from the school principal who lived in Halle before the Second World War: Arthur Köhn; Hallesches address book 1940, digitized by the library of the university. Halle, part I p. 178 column 2
  23. ^ According to the Halle address book 1946/47: Köhn, Artur (printed without "h") Reilstraße 125 with occupation "Rector".
  24. ^ Wording of the letter dated September 24, 1946 from the curator of the Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg to Friedländer (UAH PA Friedländer PH 6289) and printed in: Obermayer, Hans Peter: Deutsche Altertumswwissenschaftler im American Exil. A reconstruction , Berlin a. a. O., 2014, p. 664; ISBN 3-11-030279-9
  25. ^ Old historians, curriculum vitae in: Gundel, Hans Georg, "Laqueur, Richard" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 13 (1982), p. 634 f .; Online version .
  26. ↑ The reasons for Laqueur are given in his biography produced by the University of Halle after 1945: Although Rector Otto Eißfeldt vehemently advocated him, his return initially failed due to bureaucratic obstacles from the occupying power. In 1947, colleagues thwarted the recall. Catalogus professorum halensis 1933–1945 (accessed April 9, 2015)
  27. ^ Friedemann Stengel: Excluded: In memory of the professors at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg who were dismissed from 1933–1945 . See foreword by the editor with the source from the university archives to the notification of the curator dated August 22, 1947 about the preparation of the commemoration in September 1947: UAH, Rep. 4, No. 2090; Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86977-080-2 , p. XIII f. and XVIII.
  28. ↑ Manfred Heinemann (Ed.): University officers and the reconstruction of the university system in Germany 1945-1949. The Soviet zone of occupation. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-05-002851-3 , p. 243.
  29. ↑ Bernd Sternal / Götz Wilde / Ulrich Herrmann (eds.): In those years - records of a liberated German. Volume 2 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-8119-3 , pp. 93ff.
  30. ↑ Dietrich Wilde: In those years. Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-5364-0 , p. 33.
  31. ↑ Christoph Jünke : Socialist Strandgut Leo Kofler - Life and Work (1907-1995). Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89965-197-3 , p. 206.
  32. ↑ Friedrich de Boor, Michael Lehmann (Ed.): Study and life community under the Gospel . Contributions to the history and perspectives of the Evangelical Konviktes in the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale). Halle (Saale) 1999, ISBN 3-931479-14-5 , pp. 123ff.
  33. ↑ BBF database
  34. ↑ Dissertation topic Academic Freedom . DNB 481695516
  35. ^ Archive database of the BBF
  36. ^ Exhibition 60 Years University Archives (2007); MLU press release; Accessed October 28, 2014
  37. ↑ Bernd-Rainer Barth , Beatrix Bouvier :  Brundert, Willi . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  38. ↑ Frank Hirschinger: Gestapo agents, Trotskyists, traitors. Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-36903-4 , p. 313f.
  39. ↑ Memories of the Martin Luther University 1945-89. A discussion with contemporary witnesses. In: Hermann-Josef Rupieper (Hrsg.): Hallische contributions to contemporary history. Issue 3/1997, p. 22.
  40. ^ Daily newspaper Neue Zeit. March 29, 1949, p. 2.
  41. ↑ Frank Hirschinger: Gestapo agents, Trotskyists, traitors . Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-36903-4 , p. 303f.
  42. ↑ Manfred Heinemann (Ed.): University officers and the reconstruction of the university system in Germany 1945-1949. The Soviet zone of occupation. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-05-002851-3 , p. 243, footnote 36.
  43. ^ Memories of the Martin Luther University 1945–89. A discussion with contemporary witnesses. In: Hermann-Josef Rupieper (Hrsg.): Hallische contributions to contemporary history. Issue 3/1997, p. 27.
  44. ^ Memories of the Martin Luther University 1945–89. A discussion with contemporary witnesses. In: Hermann-Josef Rupieper (Hrsg.): Hallische contributions to contemporary history. Issue 3/1997, p. 23.
  45. ↑ Dr. rer. oec. Friedrich Elchlepp, born in Halle in 1948 as the son of the naval officer and lawyer Dr. jur. Friedrich Elchlepp ; Dissertation of the grandson of Dr. phil. Friedrich Wilhelm Elchlepp
  46. ↑ Entry in the death register of the registry office Erfurt West, death 1010/1956, which is kept in the Erfurt City Archives.
  47. ↑ Title reference : History of the Elchleb family, Elchlep, Elchlepp, Elgleb - WorldCat
  48. ↑ The New School. P. 10; Ed .: Provincial Administration Saxony, Dept. Press and Propaganda, 1945; Snippet
personal data
SURNAME Elchlepp, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and curator
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1956
Place of death Erfurt