Ernst Osterloh

Ernst Wilhelm Hermann Osterloh (born September 2, 1889 in Elmendorf near Bad Zwischenahn , † July 10, 1967 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German educator and politician ( DNVP and NSDAP ).

Life

Education and early years

Osterloh was born in Elmendorf as the son of the main teacher Sophus Osterloh. From 1899 to 1905 he attended the real department of the Mariengymnasium Jever and then until 1908 the Protestant teacher training college in Oldenburg. From 1908 to 1913 he was a primary school teacher in Grabstede and Rüstringen . On September 23, 1913, shortly after his second teacher examination, Osterloh passed the Abitur at the Jever grammar school on September 23, 1913. In the winter semester of 1913/14 he was enrolled at the University of Jena and studied German, history and geography . From August 14, 1914 until the end of the war he did military service during the First World War . Most recently he had the rank of lieutenant in the reserve . For his services during the war he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class.

From 1919/20 he continued his studies in Jena. There he received his doctorate in 1920 and passed the state examination in 1921. As early as 1920 he taught at the Oberrealschule Oldenburg . In 1921, after a short preparation period and an assessor examination, he became a teacher at the Oldenburg Evangelical Teachers' Seminar.

Political career and activity in the Third Reich

After the end of the war, Osterloh was also politically active. With his entry into the German National People's Party (DNVP), founded in 1918, as well as the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund , he was able to gain first political experience. However, he only accepted political offices in the final phase of the Weimar Republic , so Osterloh sat for the DNVP in the Oldenburg city council and was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament from 1931 to 1933 . Since 1932 he was also its 1st Vice President. As a member of the nationalist wing of the DNVP led by Alfred Hugenberg , Osterloh advocated the merger of his party with the NSDAP.

When the school councilors Wilhelm Stukenberg and Schlüter were ousted from their offices by the Oldenburg Nazi government Röver , Osterloh was appointed as their successor in 1932 and thus benefited from the National Socialist personnel policy. When the Oldenburg DNVP then distanced itself from the government in December 1932 because of this personnel policy, Osterloh resigned from the DNVP and, at the beginning of January 1933, resigned from the NSDAP.

In 1936 the Reich government commissioned Osterloh to set up a college for teacher training in Saarbrücken and in 1937 formally appointed him professor for educational sciences in the Prussian state service at the former Pedagogical Academy in Bonn (now also a college for teacher training). From 1938 Osterloh took up his office in Saarbrücken.

With the approach of the western front in autumn 1944, the teacher training institute was closed and Osterloh was initially active in the party operation in Saarbrücken, later as a representative for school relocations in the Gau Westmark . At the end of March 1945 he returned to Oldenburg because of the hostilities in the west. There he got a job as a school council on April 19.

Activity after 1945

After the end of the war, the British military government initially rejected Osterloh's application for continued employment in the civil service. In 1947 Osterloh's objection to this decision was granted, but he retired before a new position could be assigned to him.

In the 1950s, Osterloh worked with Wilhelm Grotelüschen on a geographical map of the Weser-Ems region that had already been started during the war. The homeland map between Weser and Ems that was edited here is still a standard work today and has been published in several editions.

family

Osterloh was married to Anna Jaspers (1891–1978) since July 8, 1920. The marriage had four children.

Works

• Ed. Together with Wilhelm Grotelüschen: Map of the Weser-Ems area. (1: 150,000), Leipzig 1943;
• Arrangement with Wilhelm Grotelüschen: Home map. Between Ems and Weser. (1: 300,000), Oldenburg (around 1950, numerous later editions).
• Map of the district of Ammerland (1: 100,000). Oldenburg. 1954.
• Map of the district of Friesland (1: 100,000). Oldenburg. 1954.
• Map of the city and district of Oldenburg and the city of Delmenhorst (1: 100,000). Oldenburg. 1954.
• Map of the Wesermarsch district (1: 100,000). Oldenburg. 1954.

literature

• Hilke Günther-Arndt : Osterloh, Ernst Wilhelm Hermann. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 543-544 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Osterloh in the catalog of the German National Library