Adolf Scheidt (politician)

Grave of Adolf Scheidt in the Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin.

Adolf Scheidt (born May 18, 1870 in Hanover , † October 31, 1947 in Frauenwald ) was a German politician and senior civil servant in Prussia who played an important role in the construction of settlements.

Scheidt first studied law and was then active in the field of building cooperatives. The “Handbuch des Baugenossenschaftswesens”, published in 1913, comes from him. Since 1912, he worked in public service, first as a Councilor in the Ministry of the Interior (Ministry of Interior of the Empire). In 1918 he moved to the Reich Labor Ministry, where he became Reich and State Commissioner for Housing on December 31, 1918. In April 1919 he was initially appointed as acting, from July 1919 on, finally, Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry for People's Welfare , and later as State Secretary .

This was an important position in times of the Great Depression. Scheidt promoted significantly the construction of cooperative or housing estates organized housing complexes. In contrast to the inner city quarters with dense " tenement buildings", he tried to create affordable living space on the outskirts of the Prussian cities. This is also documented by the fact that in the garden city of Neu -Tempelhof built on the Tempelhofer Feld site in Berlin-Tempelhof in 1924–31, the central square was named after him during his lifetime (1934–55 renamed Paradeplatz). In addition, his name was also found in the naming of a street in the garden city of Staaken near Spandau, which was built in 1914-17 - although it was renamed Hackbuschstraße in 1935.

When the Reich took over Prussian government power as a result of the so-called Prussian Strike of 1932, Scheidt was appointed Reich Commissioner for the Ministry at the end of July in the Reich Commissioner Papen I in place of Minister Heinrich Hirtsiefer , who had been in office since 1921 . However, he only held this office until October, when the ministry was dissolved without replacement for cost reasons. From 1930 Scheidt was also an honorary professor at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1936, however, he was suspended by the National Socialist university administration.

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 166 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Karl Kiem: The garden city of Staaken; Types, groups, variants . Berlin 1997. p. 22 ff.