Kurt Schatter

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Kurt Schatter (* 24. December 1881 in Olbernhau , † 23. March 1962 in Berlin-Koepenick ) was a German elementary school teacher , social democratic resistance fighters against the Nazis , school Speaker , Member of the German People's Council and the People's Chamber of the GDR and VVN - activist .

Life

After obtaining his university entrance qualification, Schatter studied pedagogy and worked for many years as a primary school teacher in Chemnitz . He was particularly interested in the project of land reform , which was dealt with in detail in his history class , for which he also published his own publication. In 1917 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), to which he belonged until 1930. In 1920 he founded the Chemnitz Youth and Welfare Office , which provided social support to children and young people in the difficult years after the First World War . He was elected to the city ​​council with the mandate of the SPD .

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, a professional ban was imposed on him with the “ Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ” . Schatter moved his residence to Berlin and joined the resistance group around Wilhelm Külz . Together with Fritz Müller , after the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he helped Carl Goerdeler , who was wanted by the Nazi authorities , to temporarily hide from persecution. In September 1944, Schatter himself was arrested and sentenced by a court to one year in prison .

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, Schatter became assistant consultant for elementary, middle and special schools in September 1945 . In the school department of the German Administration for National Education in Berlin, he was appointed head of the single school commission. In 1946 he became a consultant for elementary and rural schools. Schatter joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) in 1945 and became chairman of the Berlin-Friedrichshagen branch . In 1947 he became deputy head of the LDPD school department. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as the main department head in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR .

In March 1948 Schatter was elected with the mandate of the LDPD in the First People's Council of the Soviet Zone and in 1949 in the Second People's Council , the forerunner of the later People's Chamber, this time for the VVN. The same happened on October 19, 1950 during the election to the First GDR People's Chamber .

He made his experience in resistance and persecution available to the VVN's work on remembrance politics , of which he was a member of the inner committee. In the mid-1950s he initiated the creation of a scientific work on the resistance movement, for which Karl Raddatz offered him his collaboration.

estate

His political legacy is kept in these archives:

  • Archive of the library for research on the history of education of the German Institute for International Educational Research: inventory overview, as of February 2004
  • Signature: SCHATT 3: Estate of Kurt Schatter - 2.2 Letters to Kurt Schatter: Letter from Karl Raddatz to Kurt Schatter / Kurt Schatter [addressee], Karl Raddatz [writer] Berlin, June 10, 1955. - 1 letter, mach. In it: Raddatz offers to work as head of an editorial board on the schatter proposed scientific work on the resistance movement.

Publications

  • Land reform in school practice. Greßler, Langensalza 1913, DNB 362581487 .

literature

  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 580.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schatter, Kurt. In: Andreas Pehnke: Resistant Saxon school reformers in the sights of Stalinist politics (1945-1959). Lang, 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-56993-1 , accessed July 21, 2011.
  2. ↑ Schatter, Kurt. in the catalog of the German National Library, accessed July 21, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Kurt Schatter. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Library for Educational History Research (BBF) , accessed July 21, 2011.
  4. ↑ Schatter, Kurt. ( Memento from June 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 60 kB) in the inventory overview of the Library for Research on the History of Education (BBF) , accessed July 21, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Schatter, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator (SPD, LDPD), Member of the Bundestag and VVN activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Olbernhau
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1962
Place of death Berlin-Koepenick