Arnold Streit

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Arnold Streit as governor of the Royal Saxons. Administrative Authority Dresden-Altstadt, around 1910
Elementary School Bernhard Hantzsch , formerly Dr. Streit recovery home for school-age children (1913–45) in the health resort of Hartha
Memorial plaques to Arnold Streit to the left and right of the main entrance to the Bernhard Hantzsch primary school in the health resort of Hartha
Text of the memorial plaque for Arnold Streit at the Bernhard Hantzsch elementary school in Kurort Hartha on June 21, 2013

Arnold Edmund Streit (born May 10, 1867 in Chemnitz , † June 21, 1940 in Dresden ) was a Saxon secret councilor, governor of the Royal Saxons. Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt and President of the Saxon Higher Administrative Court in Dresden.

Family and school time

Arnold Edmund Streit was born on May 10th, 1867 as the son of the businessman Edmund Wilhelm Streit and his wife Malwine Franziska, b. Hunchback, born. He had a sister and three older brothers: Gustav Streit (pastor in Eula near Nossen ), Conrad Streit (senior physician in Dresden ) and Felix Streit (senior teacher in Plauen / Vogtland ).

From 1871 the family lived in Tharandt , where his father retired and died in 1874. There he was prepared from 1873 in the first year at the boys' institute (today: Heinrich-Cotta-Straße 11) of the cantor and teacher Carl Friedrich August Heyne (1824–1902) for the Princely School St. Afra in Meissen , which he, like before, his Brothers, attended from 1881 to 1887 and left with the school-leaving certificate.

After military service in infantry regiments 107 and 102, most recently as captain of the reserve, he studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1887 to 1891 and received his doctorate on both rights in Leipzig in 1892 . He had been a member of the Normannia fraternity in Leipzig since 1887 , to which he remained connected to the end. His grandfathers, Carl August Wilhelm Streit (court attorney and syndic in Ronneburg ) and Carl Gustav Glöckner (secret finance councilor in Dresden) were lawyers.

In 1903 he married Johanna, geb. Bleyl, who died in 1916. The family of his only son, Dr. jur. Wolfgang Hans Arnold Streit (in 1932 delegated to the district administration Annaberg and most recently president of the Cologne Administrative Court ), with five grandchildren, was bombed out in Dresden-Johannstadt and left Dresden after the Second World War in 1946 via Röthenbach near Dippoldiswalde to western Germany.

job

He spent his legal traineeship at the local courts in Wurzen and Johanngeorgenstadt , at the Agricultural Credit Association in Dresden and at the Dresden Regional Court and from 1894 in the internal administration of the Dresden Police Department. After passing the assessor examination at the Saxon Ministry of Justice, he worked from 1896 to 1903, most recently as a councilor, in the Kamenz and Dresden-Altstadt authorities. In 1904 he moved to the Royal Ministry of the Interior and in 1909 was appointed governor of the Dresden-Altstadt.

After the First World War he was appointed to the Ministry of the Interior as a secret government councilor and lecturer in 1917 and was a member of the examination commission for the higher administrative service. From 1923 he was Senate President and from 1929 to 1932 President of the Saxon Higher Administrative Court in Dresden.

He died on June 21, 1940 in Dresden.

Volunteering

Arnold Streit worked for several years in the church council of the ev.-luth. Christ church community Dresden-Strehlen and was most recently chairman of the board of directors of the Albertverein der Landfrauen of the German Red Cross .

Merits

As the Royal State Commissioner for the Weißeritztalsperre, he was involved in the construction of the Malter Reservoir (1908–1913) and the Klingenberg Reservoir (1908–1914).

In 1913/14 he had the non-profit foundation of the Dresden-Altstadt (district administration) Dresden-Altstadt ( Dr. Armed rest home for school-age children in rear Gersdorf (now the spa town of Hartha ) establish that the First World War from 1914 to 1918 as an association hospital or from February 1945 briefly as a district office Dresden was used and since 1 October 1945 is used as a school. A commemorative plaque for Arnold Streit as the founder of the children's recreation home was installed on June 21, 2013 at the Bernhard Hantzsch primary school in the Hartha health resort as part of a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary . Another board has been pointing to the children's home named after him at today's elementary school since 1995.

In 1923 the first Saxon municipal code he had written was adopted as a law by the Saxon state parliament , on which he held lectures at the civil service academy in Dresden from 1924 and published an explanatory book.

Awards

Arnold Streit received numerous awards, such as the Albrechts Order with the Crown, the Iron Cross on a white and black ribbon and the 1st Class Decoration of Honor of the German Red Cross.

Works

Commentary on the Saxon municipal code. Roßbergsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1924.

literature

  • Wolfgang Streit: Afranisches ECCE of the Association of Former Princely Students , Dresden, 1940
  • Christoph Jestaedt: The Saxon Higher Administrative Court from 1901 to 1941 and its five presidents . In: Claus Meissner (ed.): The Saxon Higher Administrative Court - Administrative jurisdiction in Saxony 1901–1993 . (= Saxon Justice History Volume 1). Saxon State Ministry of Justice, Dresden 1994, pp. 14–21 ( online) (PDF; 7.1 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 489.
  2. State Archives Chemnitz, inventory 30041, Amtshauptmannschaft Annaberg, No. 7198, 1932
  3. Jestaedt erroneously states 1932 as the year of Streit's death.