Ernst Schütte (politician)

Ernst Schütte (born July 11, 1904 in Eickel or in Wanne , † October 24, 1972 near Antalya ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Ernst Schütte attended elementary school and then took a job in coal mining in 1917, where he worked until 1923, when he became unemployed due to the occupation of the Ruhr . He obtained his Abitur in evening classes, and from 1930 he took up the subjects of history, German, philosophy and geography in Leipzig, Heidelberg and Freiburg / Br. to study and finish with a doctorate in 1936 at the University of Leipzig . Hermann Heimpel and Theodor Litt were among his teachers . He went to school as a teacher and served in World War II. As director of studies, he taught at the Kettwig Pedagogical Academy from 1946 , where he became professor of history and sociology in 1954 and was in charge of it until 1956.

After the World War he joined the SPD. From 1956 he was ministerial conductor in the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs and in 1959 took over the office of Hessian Education Minister in the cabinet of Georg August Zinn , which he held for ten years. In 1962 he was elected to the Hessian state parliament for the SPD , to which he was a member until 1970. His tenure fell a reform of teacher training and, above all, the abolition of mostly one- to two-class rural primary schools in favor of centralized central schools . In a speech in Munster he advocated the end of the "illusion" of student participation in the research of university teachers.

From 1966 to 1968 he was a member of the documenta council for the 4th documenta in 1968 in Kassel .

He died in a car accident in Turkey. He found his final resting place in the north cemetery in Wiesbaden .

Honors

• 1969: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1971: Wilhelm Leuschner Medal

Publications

• Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein, a contribution to the characterization of his politics , Berlin 1936 [= Dissertation Leipzig 1936]
• World history of our time , Essen 1955

Web links

• Schütte, Ernst. Hessian biography. (As of December 15, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Biography at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
• Ernst Schütte in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)