Emil Straus

Emil Straus (born September 7, 1899 in Göllheim , † July 4, 1985 in Nice ) was a German educator , diplomat and politician ( CVP ).

Life and work

After attending school, Straus first attended a teachers' seminar. On September 6, 1918, he moved to Frankenthal and worked as a cantor and religion teacher for the Frankenthal Jewish Community. On July 5, 1920 he moved to Grünstadt. He then worked as a primary school teacher. On July 29, 1925, he married Hilde Nahm in Grünstadt, who was born on August 28, 1902 in Grünstadt. The twins Gerhard Stefan and Franz August were born in Saarbrücken on December 27, 1929. He took up a university course, which he finished in 1935 with a doctorate . His dissertation on the social structure of the Saar area: A sociographic description was given in a very German national language. Sun quoted him as Der Spiegel in 1952 with the words "The desire of the Saar is the loyalty to the German home!" As a German Jew who emigrated it after the connection of the Saarland to the German Empire as a result of the racial policies of the Nazis . He went to France and applied for French citizenship in 1937 , which he did not receive until 1947 through a decree of the Journal officiel de la République française . Converted to Catholicism as early as 1934 .

Straus returned to Saarland after World War II and joined the CVP. From October 1946 to December 1947 he was director of education in the administrative commission of the Saarland . During this time he laid the foundation stone for the Saar University of Music based on the French model. From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the Saarland Landtag . From December 20, 1947 to April 14, 1951, he was Minister for Culture, Education and Public Education in the Saarland government led by Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann . During his tenure, he spoke out vehemently against middle schools and promoted the music industry.

In 1952 he was appointed ambassador and head of the diplomatic mission of the Saar government in Paris .

See also

• Cabinet Hoffmann I

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Straus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christine Frick: Emil Straus . on Saarland biographies

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Theobald: Jewish fellow citizens in Frankenthal with the districts of Eppstein and Flomersheim from 1800 to 1940 . Issued June 2014
2. ↑ ^{a b} Politics is business . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1952, pp. 8 ( online ).
3. ^ Emil Straus (limited preview). Munzinger Archive , accessed on September 16, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Christa Kersting: Pedagogy in post-war Germany . Julius Klinkhardt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7815-1581-9 , pp. 357 .
5. ^ Wolfgang Behringer, Gabriele B. Clemens: History of the Saarland . CH Beck, 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58456-5 , pp. 113 .