Erich Drechsler (artist)

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Erich Drechsler (born June 10, 1903 in Gera  ; † November 21, 1979 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist , neurologist , director of a psychiatric hospital and union official .

Life

Drechsler was born into a social democratic working class family. His father Hermann Drechsler was a trained weaver , later editor of a workers' newspaper and district administrator with the mandate of the USPD .

Drechsler completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter after attending primary school . From 1919 to 1921 he studied painting and graphics at the Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden under Richard Müller and worked as a freelance in the following years . Erich Drechsler's graphic, painterly and press graphic work was created between 1918 and 1928. His work encompassed an area of ​​tension between allegorical symbolism , visionary expressionism , socially critical verism and new-objective imagery.

His political commitment began in 1917 when he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ), followed by membership in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1924 . From 1931 to 1936 he studied medicine in Jena , obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1937 and was an assistant doctor under director Berthold Kihn at the Jena University Psychiatric Clinic until 1945 .

Drechsler was an assessor at the Jena Hereditary Health Court and was part of the decision to carry out compulsory sterilization . At the beginning of the Second World War he was a medical soldier in the Wehrmacht in Erfurt and Kassel for two years . In 1938 a painting was shown at the Berlin exhibition Degenerate Art .

In 1945 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) like his father and became a member of the SED in 1946 when the SPD and KPD were forced to unite . From July 1945 to May 1946 he was head of the State Health Office and in the main health department in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior . In 1947 he became Minister of Labor . From May 1949 to April 1974 he was head or medical director of the specialist hospital for neurology and psychiatry in Stadtroda. Drechsler was a member of the SED district leadership in Stadtroda from 1954 to 1958 and a member of the FDGB federal executive committee in the 1960s .

Erich Drechsler was buried in the east cemetery of Gera.

In 2000, documents were found in the files of the Gauck authorities , from which it emerged that Drechsler handed a report to a representative of the MfS in November 1964 that euthanasia crimes had been committed during the Nazi era under his predecessor, Prof. Gerhard Kloos .

Publications

  • Hermann Drechsler. Nickelmann: cheerful animal fables , drawings by Erich Drechsler. Jena: Thuringian publishing company. u. Printing house, [1925]
  • Courage for a home visit , Marburg: Marburger Blätter-Mission, [1985?]
  • SPD storm against Adenauers Wind-Saat , Hamburg 1, Gurlittstr. 40: Working group on left orientation d. Social Democracy , 1956
  • The rate of erythrocyte subsidence in relation to inflammatory gynecological diseases , Jena, 1938

honors and awards

  • In the exhibition Doctors as Artists - 100th Exhibition of the Moritz Clinic in Bad Klosterlausnitz , which was opened on November 26, 2008 as the 100th exhibition in the Moritz Clinic Bad Klosterlausnitz, there are paintings, graphics and drawings by 29 doctors ( three of them already died like Erich Drechsler) have been shown.
  • In 1973 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

literature

  • Erich Drechsler . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 200 .
  • Kirsten Fitzke: "Here is death the strangler". The work of Erich Drechsler on the First World War , Marburg 2011.
  • Kirsten Fitzke: Erich Drechsler's rediscovered dance of death drawings - reflections on a previously unknown dance of death cycle for the First World War , in: L'Art Macabre 7 (2006), pp. 53–67.
  • Kirsten Fitzke: Erich Drechsler's Abitur exam: A reflection on his dance of death cycles for the First World War , in: Der Heimatbote. Contributions from the district of Greiz and the surrounding area 51 (2005), pp. 6-9.
  • Erich Drechsler. 1903-1979; Paintings, pastels, drawings; Art Collection Gera, Orangery, exhibition from September 5 to November 14, 1999 / [Ed .: Art Collection Gera. Catalog editor: Holger Peter Saupe. Text authors: Ulrike Rüdiger ...]
  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Small series Volume 29, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 544.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Reif-Spirek, Annette Leo: Vielstimmiges Schweigen , Metropol, 2001, p. 35
  2. ↑ http://www.gera.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=49711&_page=1&_stadtteil=62873&_ategorie=62888&_beherung=&_nummer_liste=2 Retrieved May 18, 2011
  3. ↑ http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/archiv/artikel.asp?id=38763 Retrieved May 18, 2011
  4. ↑ DNB 574686495
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 18, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.l-va.city-bizzy.de
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , September 21, 1973, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Wood turner, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1979
Place of death Gera