Carl Strehl

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Carl Strehl (born July 27, 1886 in Berlin , † August 18, 1971 in Marburg ) was co-founder and director of the German Institute for the Blind and Honorary Professor for the Blind at the Philipps University in Marburg .

Life and career

Carl Strehl was the third of four children of the royal Prussian first fire inspector in Berlin and private lecturer in fire extinguishing at the Technical University of Charlottenburg Carl Strehl and his wife Helene, née. Keilmann, born.

Due to the father's occupation as an official of the Prussian state, the family had to move frequently, so that Strehl attended schools in Berlin-Altona, Gera, Insterburg, Köslin and Berlin-Lichterfelde. When Carl Strehl was 8 years old, his father died and his mother sent him to the cadet institute. He broke off this cadet training at the end of 1900, went to sea at the age of 14½ and spent the next 5 years as a cabin boy or sailor on German, English and American ships.

Carl Strehl went blind in December 1907 in an accident in a chemical company in New York and returned to Insterburg in 1908. For 1½ years he attended the Johanneum in Hamburg. After passing the school leaving examination in 1913, he studied philology and economics at the University of Marburg. In 1915, Alfred Bielschowsky, then director of the Marburg University Eye Clinic, set up courses for war blind people to learn techniques for the blind; he hired Strehl to manage it. Together they founded the Association of Blind Academics in Germany (today the German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired in Study and Work ), which ensured that the German Institute for the Blind could be founded in Marburg in 1916 ; Bielschowsky became their honorary chairman, Strehl their syndic. - In 1921 the doctorate to Dr. phil. with a thesis on the subject of welfare for the blind. An excerpt from social policy.

In 1927 Strehl was appointed director of the college for the blind; he held this office until he retired.

From 1931 he took up teaching positions at the University for the Blind and Welfare for the Blind. In 1940 he was appointed honorary professor for the blind as a sub-area for ophthalmology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Marburg.

Honors

  • The training facility of the Institute for the Blind in Marburg is called the Carl-Strehl-Schule .
  • There is a Carl-Strehl-Straße in Marburg .
  • The Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt and the German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired in Study and Work jointly award the Carl Strehl plaque .

Others

Carl Strehl was also involved in local politics; in April 1933 he was running on an independent list of citizens for the Marburg city council. Since 1923 he was a member of the Freemason Lodge Marc Aurel zum Flammenden Stern in Marburg.

Fonts (selection)

  • The university for the blind in Marburg-Lahn. Its establishment and development 1916–1958. Festschrift for the inauguration of the Carl Strehl School. Marburg 1958.
  • Commemorative publication 25 years of the Marburg (Lahn) university for the blind. From the foundation to the present day. Edited by Carl Strehl. Marburg: Institute for the Blind 1942.
  • School, professional and follow-up care for the blind and visually impaired. A reference work for authorities, welfare workers, doctors, educators, the blind and their relatives. Leipzig: Thieme 1939.
  • The war blind welfare of the Marburg Institute for the Blind from 1915–1932. Marburg 1932.
  • The higher education of the blind and their uses . [Berlin] 1931.
  • War blind welfare. An excerpt from social policy . Berlin: Springer 1922.
  • Caring for blind academics. Marburg: Association of Blind Academics in Germany [approx. 1918].

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As a book publication s. Fonts.
  2. ^ H. Keiler: Freemason Documentation Marburg. Giessen 1980 (Marburg University Library).
personal data
SURNAME Strehl, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 1971
Place of death Marburg