Friedrich von Eichel-Streiber

Friedrich von Eichel-Streiber (born December 31, 1876 in Eisenach ; † April 20, 1943 there ) was a German politician of the German National People's Party .

Life

Originating from Acorn Streiber, from a religious and conservative landowner family, studied at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen law . In 1896 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . He was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. In 1919 he became a member of the German National People's Party . From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the state parliament in the Free State of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . As a member of the Thuringian state parliament , he became parliamentary group leader of his party. He was active in the newly founded Thuringian Evangelical Church , where he belonged to the parliamentary group of the " Christian Volksbund ". He became a member of the 1st to 4th  Landeskirchentag and was its president from the 2nd Landeskirchentag from 1925 to 1933. Since 1928 he was a member of the social committee of the church parliament.

In 1933 he took over the chairmanship of the Christian Volksbund. Together with the regional bishop Wilhelm Reichardt , he signed all laws and ordinances that served to bring his church into line with the Nazi state. These included, among other things, the “Church Enabling Act” in May 1933, which withdrew its powers from the church parliament, a “law against Marxism”, and a new church order, according to which a marriage could be denied “if there was a difference of race”, and four months later that “Law of September 12, 1933 on the position of church officials in relation to the nation”, according to which a “non-Aryan” or a theologian married to a “non-Aryan woman” could no longer be appointed pastor.

Since 1934 he was a member of the Lutheran Confessional Community , part of the Confessing Church of Thuringia. At the 2nd meeting of the Thuringian State Church Congress on January 9, 1934, the deputy NSDAP Gauleiter Fritz Wächtler accused him of his conflict with the dominant group of German Christians in Thuringia : “Our people are in the toughest struggle with the outside world, and you saw earlier said - it must be possible to determine by the shorthand, the meaning was as it is claimed by the emigrants abroad - that bondage prevails in Germany. This is not about this little question, but about the right to life of the German people. You stab the Führer and the movement in the back with your arguments here. ”( Marie Begas :)

Services

The members of his family were active as patrons of the Eisenach school system, culture and nursing and set up several foundations in these areas. In 1920 Eichel-Streiber made the castle on the Pflugensberg available to the newly founded Thuringian Church as an official residence.

literature

• Apoldaer Tageblatt 1919 and 1920
• Thuringian Church Gazette and Church Gazette. Law and news sheet of the Thuringian Protestant Church , years 1933 and 1934
• Erich Stegmann: The church struggle in the Thuringian Evangelical Church 1933-1945 , Berlin 1984
• Thomas A. Seidel (ed.): Thuringian ridge walks . Contributions to the 75-year history of the Protestant regional church of Thuringia, series: Herbergen der Christenheit. Yearbook for German Church History, special volume 3 , Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-374-01699-5

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hasso von Etzdorf, Wolfgang von der Groeben , Erik von Knorre: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen and the Landsmannschaft Saxonia (1840-1844) as of February 13, 1972, p. 82.
2. ^ Marie Begas, "Diaries on the Church Struggle 1933–1938", edited by Heinz-Werner Koch, Folkert Rickers and Hannelore Schneider. Volume Documents on the Church Struggle in Thuringia 1933–1938 ", published in 2016 in the series" Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia ", Large Series, Vol. 19, digitized by the Landeskirchenarchiv Eisenach [1] ; quoted under [2] page 73