Christoph König (politician)

Christoph König (born March 17, 1882 in Lutter ; † February 26, 1944 in Lutter ) was a leading social democratic school politician during the Weimar Republic and a member of the Prussian state parliament .

job

After elementary school, König attended the preparatory institute and then the teachers' college in Heiligenstadt . In 1902 he successfully completed the first and in 1905 the second teaching examination. In the Prussian school service since 1902, König was an elementary school teacher in Frankfurt am Main from 1909 to 1919 . Between 1919 and 1921 he was an unskilled worker in the Ministry of Science, Art and Education in Berlin. He was also a representative of a government and school council office in Potsdam . From 1921 to 1925, King was a district school councilor in Swinoujscie . After that he was a school councilor or high school councilor at the Provinzial Schulkollegium based in Berlin until 1933. At the same time, King was vice-president of this institution.

politics

König was one of the leading social democratic school politicians. He was one of the most influential people in the study group of social democratic teachers. He was also a member of the main school policy department of the German teachers' association. In 1929 he was traded for the office of the Prussian Minister of Education.

König was a member of the constituent Prussian state assembly between 1919 and 1921 and then a member of the Prussian state parliament until 1932.

Web links

• Biography of Christoph König . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)