Georg Schreiber (politician)

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Georg Schreiber

Georg Schreiber (born January 5, 1882 in Rüdershausen near Duderstadt , † February 24, 1963 in Münster ) was a German politician ( center ) and church historian . In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the German Reichstag , to which he was a member until 1933. He was also a professor in Regensburg and Münster.

Life and work

Georg Schreiber was born into a forester family and attended the Josephinum Hildesheim grammar school , which he graduated from high school in 1901. He then studied theology , history and law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and the University of Berlin . In 1901 he joined the Catholic fraternity Unitas Frisia. In the following year he was elected chairman of the student committee of the University of Münster. On April 7, 1905, he was ordained a priest in Hildesheim . He received his doctorate in 1909 in Berlin as a doctor of philosophy and in 1913 in Freiburg im Breisgau as a doctor of theology. In the same year he completed his habilitation at the University of Münster.

Schreiber taught as a regular associate professor from 1915 to 1917 for canon law , constitutional law and administrative law at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg . He then moved back to Münster, where from 1917 to 1935 and from 1945 to 1951 he was a full professor for middle and recent church history and historical Caritas studies at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the university. In 1927 Schreiber founded the Research Center for German Abroad and Foreign Studies in Münster, in 1929 an emigration advice center in Münster and in 1933 the "German Institute for Folklore" in Münster. The law faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1928.

On April 2, 1935, he was forcibly transferred from the National Socialist regime to the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg in East Prussia . However, he was able to prevent this deportation through early retirement .

According to the Security Service (SD), Schreiber was a sharp opponent of National Socialism. In January 1939 the Gestapo searched his house and confiscated his institutes. He was placed under house arrest and had to quit his journalistic activities. A case opened by the senior public prosecutor in Münster for alleged violations of property and administrative regulations at his institutes was discontinued in 1942. Due to a warning, Schreiber went into hiding in Bavaria and Tyrol after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 . He returned to Münster in the early summer of 1945.

From 1945 to 1946 Georg Schreiber was the first post-war rector of the University of Münster. As a board member of numerous scientific organizations, he helped rebuild German science. From 1951 until his death in 1963 he was a scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg . Schreiber was chairman of the Historical Commission for Westphalia from 1946 to 1962 . In 1962 he received the Harnack Medal of the Max Planck Society , which is awarded for special services to society.

Schreiber's estate has been in the Münster University Archives since 2013 .

politics

In addition, he worked as a science and cultural politician for the Catholic German Center Party . Schreiber sat for them in the Reichstag from 1920 to 1933 . One of his priorities in his work as a politician was cultural policy . He worked on the so-called Prussian Concordat of 1929 and was thus able to set strong impulses not only in the imperial church but also in the imperial cultural policy. He was also committed to the next generation of academics and to strengthening the international relations of German universities. Schreiber was a Senator of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society from 1926 to 1933 , later a Senator and Honorary Senator of the Max Planck Society.

Historical work

In addition to his political activities, Schreiber was one of the most prominent cultural and church historians of his generation. His work on the Council of Trent , published in 1951, is still considered a standard work and has not been replaced. Other work concerned the German administrative history, but also more specific cultural-historical topics, such as the history of viticulture in Germany and Central Europe. In terms of church history, his writings on taxation, the history of miracles and popular piety are worth mentioning. All studies are characterized by a blending of the various approaches, which was not a matter of course at the time, especially including folklore , and thus make Schreiber one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary research in Germany.

Fonts

  • Mother and Child in the Culture of the Church. Studies on source studies and the history of Caritas, social hygiene and population policy. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1918.
  • German cultural policy and Catholicism. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1922.
  • German civil servants and German cultural policy. In: Werner Friedrich Bruck , Heinrich Weber (eds.): Officials and Administrative Academy: Commemorative publication for the meeting of the Reich Association of German Administrative Academies on June 1 and 2, 1928 in Münster i. W. and Bochum. Westfälische Vereindruckerei, Münster 1928, pp. 81–90.
  • German abroad as a cultural question. Aschendorff, Münster 1929.
  • National and international folklore. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1930.
  • Volkstum und Kulturpolitik: A Collection of Essays. Dedicated to Georg Schreiber on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. Edited by Heinrich Konen and Johann Peter Steffes. Gilde, Cologne 1932.
  • German peasant piety from a folklore perspective. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1937.
  • German Miracle Books: On Source Studies and Meaning. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1938.
  • Between democracy and dictatorship. Personal memories of the politics and culture of the Reich 1919–1944. Regensbergsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1949.
  • Iroschottische and Anglo-Saxon wandering cults in Westphalia . In: Heinrich Börsting , Alois Schröer (Ed.): Westfalia sacra. Sources and research on the church history of Westphalia , Vol. 2. Aschendorff, Münster 1950, pp. 1–132.
  • The World Council of Trent. His becoming and working. 2 volumes. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1951.
  • German science policy from Bismarck to the nuclear scientist Otto Hahn. West German Publishing House, Cologne 1954.
  • West German characters. Dates and memories of the history of science and social policy of the last decades. In: Westphalian research. Vol. 9 (1956), pp. 54-82.
  • German wine history. Wine in popular life, cult and economy. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7927-0331-9 .

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ludwig Freibüter: Georg Schreiber . In: Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch . tape 2 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1996, p. 242 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Peter Johannsen, Norbert Schäfers: The emigration advice center in Münster , Münster 2013, p. 16.
  3. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster: History of the Institute for Religious Folklore , accessed on February 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ See Ottobeuren Monastery # History .
  5. ↑ Sören Flachowsky : " Armory for the swords of the spirit". The Deutsche Bücherei during the Nazi era . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3196-9 , p. 775.

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predecessor Office successor
Herbert Siegmund Rector of the WWU Münster
1945–1946 		Emil Lehnartz
personal data
SURNAME Schreiber, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science and culture politician (center), Member of the Parliament, lawyer, church historian and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudershausen
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1963
Place of death Muenster