Emil Menke-Glückert

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Emil Menke-Glückert (born December 15, 1878 in Bonn , † January 13, 1948 in Dresden ) was a German historian , ministerial official and liberal politician ( FVP , DDP , LDP ). He taught at the University of Leipzig and the Technical University of Dresden .

Life

Menke-Glückert passed the Abitur at the secondary school in Gotha in 1903 and then studied classical philology, German, philosophy and history in Vienna , Berlin and Leipzig . In 1906 he received his doctorate with a study of Goethe's philosophy of history under Karl Lamprecht . In 1912 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the historiography of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and then worked as a teacher at the old grammar school in Bremen until 1911 . From 1912 to 1920 he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig. In 1917 he was appointed Real Privy Councilor by the Saxon King and charged with reforming the Saxon school system.

Since 1911 Menke-Glückert was a member of the Progressive People's Party . In 1918 he sat on the Leipzig Workers 'and Soldiers' Council . From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the German Democratic Party in the Saxon People's Chamber .

From 1920 to 1933 Menke-Glückert worked as a ministerial advisor and consultant in the Saxon Ministry of Education and was employed as an honorary professor for political science at the Technical University of Dresden from 1924 . In 1934 he was dismissed by the National Socialists because of his liberal attitude and was banned from publication. In addition, disciplinary proceedings were opened against him for favoring Jews. In 1944 he was in contact with those involved in the July 20 assassination attempt, such as the Mayor of Leipzig, Carl Goerdeler, and therefore experienced a number of house searches.

After the end of the Second World War , Menke-Glückert was one of those striving for a new liberal start in Dresden, and in July 1945 co-founded the local “Democratic Party of Germany”, which had been the Saxon state association of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since mid-August . From its founding until March 1947, Menke-Glückert was a member of the executive board of the LDP in Saxony . In 1945 he was appointed ministerial director in the state administration of Saxony , where he was acting head of the office for popular education. Subsequently, as State Secretary he was responsible for the management of the Office for Popular Education at the Central Administration for Science, Art and Education in the Soviet zone of occupation .

Menke-Glückert's son Peter was a ministerial director a. a. Head of the Department for Environmental Affairs in the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

Fonts

  • Goethe's philosophy of history , Voigtländer, Leipzig 1907.
  • Goethe as a history philosopher and the history-philosophical movement of his time , Voigtländer, Leipzig 1907.
  • The historiography of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Bodin and the justification of the methodology of history by Bartholomäus Keckermann , Osterwieck 1912, new print Leipzig 1971.
  • The November Revolution 1918, its origins and its development up to the National Assembly , Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1919.
  • (Ed.) Paul Boerner: Memories of a Revolutionary , 2 vol., Haberland, Leipzig 1920.
  • On the reorganization of the school system in Saxony , Dresden 1926.
  • Goethe in Dresden , Dresden 1936.
  • Volkswohl Association 1888-1938 , Dresden 1939.

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber : SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-486-55261-4 , pp. 134, 142, 566, 718, 729.
  • Kurt Koloc (ed.): 125 years of the Dresden University of Technology 828–1953. Verlag der Wissenschaft, Berlin 1953, DNB 900322373 , p. 62.
  • Dorit Petschel (arr.): The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Böhlau, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-02503-8 , p. 618.
  • Johannes Rohbeck , Hans-Ulrich Wöhler (Ed.): On the way to the university. Cultural Studies in Dresden 1871–1945. Thelem, Dresden 2001, ISBN 978-3-933592-28-6 , p. 408.
  • Hans Schleier : The bourgeois German historiography of the Weimar Republic. Volume 2: The Left Liberal Historians. Akademie-Verlag, DNB 750528400 , Berlin 1975, p. 602.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Menke-Glückert's personal estate. In: archiv.sachsen.de. Main State Archive Dresden , archived from the original on March 5, 2011 ; accessed on August 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Menke-Glückert, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1948
Place of death Dresden