Günter Scheele

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Günter Scheele (born October 22, 1905 in Berlin-Britz ; † April 15, 1982 ) was a German university professor .

Life

After attending the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin until he was “one year old”, Günter Scheele attended the teachers' seminar in Berlin-Köpenick from 1923 . There he passed the first state examination for elementary school teachers in 1925 and the second in 1927. At the same time, he made up his Abitur examination. He then continued a provisional study of history, political science, German studies, philosophy and pedagogy at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1932 with a thesis on "Psychological Perspectivism in Novels". The supervisors of the dissertation were the Germanist Julius Petersen and the pedagogue Eduard Spranger . During his studies he worked as a junior teacher at a school in Berlin-Neukölln and qualified as an academic gymnastics and sports teacher at the Prussian University for Physical Education.

In 1928 Scheele joined the SPD . He became a close associate of the SPD politician Max Fechner , who was a member of the Prussian state parliament . Dismissed from school for political reasons in 1933, he worked briefly at a school for Jewish children in Berlin-Wannsee . Scheele's contact with Fechner ended in 1937 when he joined the NSDAP . From then on he taught at a high school in Berlin-Adlershof .

After the end of the war, Scheele rejoined the SPD. Fechner wanted him as a personal assistant or speaker and told the SPD that Scheele's accession to the NSDAP was a tactical step that had been agreed upon with him, after which the SPD rehabilitated him. Scheele supported Fechner, who was a member of the central committee of the SPD, journalistically in the fight against internal party opponents of the merger with the KPD, which came about in 1946 in the form of a forced union. Fechner became a member of the party executive or central committee of the SED . Scheele remained Fechner's personal advisor when he took office as Minister of Justice of the GDR in 1949. From 1950 he held parallel lectures on Marxism-Leninism at the Law Faculty of the University of Berlin , where he was appointed professor with a teaching position in 1951. Scheele could no longer complete the promotion to professor with full teaching post in June 1953 in the subject Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism , because that same month the popular uprising of June 17th resulted in the arrest and dismissal of Fechner. Scheele had the Ministry for State Security disappear in secret in his central remand prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen in order to interrogate him. After his release in August 1953 he was first a lecturer, later professor and from 1956 to 1965 rector at the Pedagogical University of Potsdam . From 1965 until his retirement in 1971, Scheele was director of the section there for Marxism-Leninism.

Awards

Web links

Fonts

  • Psychological perspectivism in the novel, Berlin 1933.
  • German physical exercises. Physical education as an expression of a culture of strength, Berlin / Leipzig 1936.

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 .
  • Jan-Peters Janssen: Günter Scheele. On the career of an academic gymnastics teacher in the Third Reich and in the German Democratic Republic - on the nature and change of a personality, In: Jürgen Court / Arno Müller / Andrea Schulte (eds.): Yearbook 2008 of the German Society for the History of Sports Science, p. 177-205. limited preview
  • Kristin Kleibert: The legal faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin in upheaval - The years 1948 to 1951, Berlin 2010, pp. 149–156.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Wentker : Justice in the Soviet Zone, GDR 1945–1953. Transformation and role of their central institutions . Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-486-56544-7 p. 228 ff.
  2. ↑ Kristin Kleibert: The legal faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin in transition - The years 1948 to 1951, Berlin 2010, p. 153.
personal data
SURNAME Scheele, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports educator
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Britz
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1982