Ernst Theodor Eichelbaum

Ernst Theodor Eichelbaum (born June 23, 1893 in Berlin ; † April 16, 1991 in St. Peter-Ording ) was a German educator and politician for the CDU .

Life

Eichelbaum was born in Berlin as the son of the Supreme Court Judge Julius Eichelbaum (1850-1921) and his wife Magarethe (née Bushenius, 1854-1915). He had three sisters. In 1911 he made his Abitur at the Thomas School in Leipzig. He then studied German , history , religion and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin . When the First World War broke out in 1914, he volunteered for military service. He was wounded and while he was recovering, he passed the state examination for the teaching post . For his services, most recently as a lieutenant in the reserve, in the regiment and as commander of an artillery battery, he received the Iron Cross 1st Class, the Albrechts Order (Knight's Cross 2nd Class) and the Wound Badge in black.

In January 1919 he became a teacher into the College of St. Thomas School, where he remained until 1943 and again in 1945-46. He taught German, history and religion. In addition, Eichelbaum was an inspector in the Thomanerchor Alumnate for six years . In 1943 Eichelbaum, who had Jewish ancestors, was banned from practicing his profession, and from now on he was responsible for claims claims in the city administration. At the time of National Socialism he belonged to the Confessing Church . In 1945 Eichelbaum was one of the co-founders of the CDU in Leipzig, of which he was second district chairman until 1948. He was also a member of the Saxon state executive. City councilor since 1946 , he was second mayor of Leipzig from 1945 to 1948 .

Eichelbaum left Leipzig and the Soviet occupation zone in October 1948 and has lived in West Germany ever since. From 1949 to 1957 he worked as senior director at the natural science grammar school in Wuppertal - Elberfeld . After fleeing to the western zones, he belonged to the CDU in Wuppertal. He became a board member of the CDU in exile and of the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU and CSU. In 1952 he was a co-founder of the General Union of Soviet Zone Refugees, of which he was federal chairman until 1963. From 1957 to 1965 Eichelbaum was a member of the German Bundestag . Eichelbaum was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

In 2000, a street in the Großzschocher district of Leipzig was named after Eichelbaum ( Eichelbaumstraße , previously: Alfred-Rosch- Straße ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Otthein Rammstedt , Angela Rammstedt (Ed.): Georg Simmel. Letters 1912–1918. Youth letters. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-28423-0 , p. 605.
2. ↑ Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932. Commissioned by the Thomanerbund, self-published, Leipzig 1934, p. 11.
3. ↑ His sister, teacher Agathe Eichelbaum (1894–1981), who had taught botany, zoology and chemistry at the Gaudig School in Leipzig since 1922 , was resigned on September 25, 1933 on the basis of the law to restore the civil service because of her Jewish descent Dismissed from the Saxon school service (cf. Andreas Pehnke : Message of Reconciliation. The Leipzig peace and reform pedagogue Waldus Nestler (1887–1954) , Sax – Verlag, Beucha 2004, p. 37).
4. ^ Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch (ed.): The Thomas School in Leipzig between the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. (= Brochures of the Thomanerbund eV; 2) Leipzig 2000, p. 90.