Anton Rée

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Anton Rée

Anton Rée (born November 9, 1815 in Hamburg ; † January 13, 1891 Hamburg) was a Hamburg reform pedagogue and politician.

Life

Gravestone Anton Rée Cemetery Ohlsdorf

The son of the Jewish banker Berend Isaac Rée and Johanna, b. Nathanson. was educated by private tutors and then studied at the University of Kiel philosophy .

From 1838 he worked as a teacher and from 1848 until his death as director at the Israelitische Freischule , the later foundation school from 1815 on the Zeughausmarkt in Hamburg's Neustadt district , which was converted into a cross-denominational secondary school on his initiative. Rées endeavored to establish a primary school system in Hamburg that was open to all children regardless of religion and social origin. a. led to the introduction of compulsory schooling in 1871 due to the activities of Rées in Hamburg .

Rée was elected to the Hamburg Constituent Assembly in 1848 and, along with Gabriel Riesser , with whom he worked closely, was one of the most important advocates of Jewish emancipation . In the first elections for Hamburg citizenship , Rée won a mandate in 1859. He remained a member of the citizenry until 1871. From 1867 to 1870 Rée was a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation . From 1881 to 1884 he was a member of the Reichstag and represented the third Hamburg constituency.

Honors

After Rée's death, the foundation school was renamed Anton-Rée-Realschule , it was closed in 1933. A path in the Ohlsdorf district was named Réesweg; the name was changed during the Nazi era in 1938, the former Réesweg has since been named after the Hamburg senator and colonial politician Justus Strandes .

Today a school in the Neuallermöhe district and a street in the Hammerbrook district bear the name of Rées.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At times court banker to the Danish king.
  2. ↑ 3114. Rée (Anton), in: Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , 6th volume Pauli-Schoff, Perthes-Besser and Mauke, Hamburg 1873, p. 181
  3. ↑ Hartwig Fiege: History of the Hamburg Elementary School , Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1970, ISBN 3-7815-0007-1 , p. 22.
  4. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 266, short biography p. 453.
  5. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, pp. 295-296.

literature

  • Manfred Asendorf: The Hamburg educator and politician Anton Rée. A contribution to the relationship between emancipation and education . Hamburg 1985
  • Josef Feiner: Dr. Anton Rée, a fighter for progress and law . Hamburg 1916
  • Wilhelm Sillem:  Ree, Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 255-258.

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personal data
SURNAME Rée, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue and politician (DFP), MdR, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1891
Place of death Hamburg