Georg Streiter (politician)

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Georg Streiter (born December 14, 1884 in Berlin , † spring 1945 in Ravensbrück ) was a German politician ( DVP ).

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Stolperstein , Schönhauser Allee 130, in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

German Empire (1884 to 1918)

Streiter was born in 1884 as the son of Carl Streiter and Wilhelmine Streiter, b. Schulz, born in Berlin. After attending elementary school , he completed an apprenticeship in a textile store. He later worked as a clerk and a nurse in the service of the Inner Mission . In addition, he attended theological, economic and linguistic courses at the Royal Art School in Berlin.

Even as a youngster, Streiter was involved in the "Evangelical Youth Association for Social Work" in Berlin, a group of young people who advocated a union organization for nursing staff on a Christian basis.

In the constitution of the " Trade Union of Nurses, -Pflegerinnen and related occupations of Germany" on 18 October 1903 champion at the age of 19 years, the management was transferred the association. In November 1903, Streiter was also the editor in charge of the association gazette of the union of the nurses . From 1904 to 1920 Streiter took part as a delegate at all trade union congresses of the " General Association of Christian Trade Unions in Germany " and has always been confirmed as a member of the "General Association" committee since October 1906 (General Committee of the "National Workers' Election Committee").

Streiter had been active full-time in the workers' and salaried employees' movement since 1907: at the delegates' day on January 13, 1907 in Berlin, he was elected as the successor to Carl Hintsche as chairman of the trade union. In addition, he continued to hold the post of editor-in-chief and managing director. He thus became the first paid functionary of the organization, which now changed its name to the "German Association of Nurses". On the following delegate days (1909 in Berlin; 1913 in Nuremberg, 1919 in Berlin, 1922 in Würzburg) Streiter was always confirmed in the office of chairman. At this time, Streiter was able to continuously increase the number of its members: while the association only had 879 members in 1907, by 1909 it had already reached 1,409 members.

Politically, Streiter's association was against socialism and communism , but on the other hand he declared the strike as a trade union weapon to be justified as long as “the people's welfare is not endangered”. The “Streiter Association”, as the association was also called due to Streiter's undisputed leadership role, programmatically called for the nursing profession to be developed from a “transitional to a life profession”. To this end, the economic and social situation of occupational nursing should be improved, regular training for nurses should be ensured and the inclusion of women in Christian trade union organizations should be expanded.

In 1910, Streiter published his book on the situation of nursing in Germany, which was later reprinted several times, and which is considered the first scientific framework on German nursing and is still often cited as a source in works on nursing history. At the extraordinary congress of Christian trade unions in November 1912, Streiter campaigned for the right of Christian workers to organize in the so-called “trade union dispute”.

During the First World War Streiter was employed as a nurse of the Red Cross in Belgium, Poland and Turkey and with the Iron Cross 2nd class on the White-Black Band, the Prussian Cross of Merit for War Aid, the Prussian Red Cross Medal 2nd and 3rd class as well as the Austrian Medal of Honor from the Red Cross.

From 1916 to 1918, Streiter headed the welfare service for the disabled of the Christian national workers' movement. In this capacity he also became a member of the Reich Committee for War Disabled and Survivor Welfare in the Reich Ministry of Labor . There he performed tasks in the legislative and career counseling committees.

At that time, Streiter was also a member of the advisory board of the “ National Foundation for the Survivors of those Fallen in the War ”, a member of the Brandenburg State Advisory Board for War Disabled Welfare, a member of the trust council of the Old Prussian Evangelical Upper Church Council and a member of the German Evangelical Church Congress (here chairman of the faction of workers' representatives). In addition, he worked as a career advisor for the city of Berlin for nursing needs and as a church elder and member of two synods .

Weimar Republic (1919 to 1933)

Immediately after the end of the war, Streiter took over the management of a central information center for employment agencies for those returning from the war. In December 1918, Streier helped found the German People's Party (DVP). In the party, he soon appeared publicly as a co-founder of the central board and as its health policy spokesman. He was also a member of the party's internal committees for workers 'issues and local politics, a member of the executive committee of the constituency association of the DVP in Berlin and responsible for the editing of the workers' newspaper of his party.

Streiter took over his first public political office when he became a member of the Berlin city council on March 20, 1919 , of which he was a member until 1925.

Due to the small number of members of the "Streiter Association", the main board of the organization decided on September 5, 1920 to rename the association to "German Association for Occupational Health and Welfare Care". At the same time, the organization was affiliated to the “General Association of German Civil Service Unions”. The union newspaper published by Streiter therefore adopted a long subtitle, which took into account its broad audience in the care sector ( magazine for the entire occupational sick, insane and welfare care and the economic interests of civil servants and employees in hospitals, sanatoriums and nursing homes, University and private clinics, sanatoriums, spa, bathing, massage and disinfection facilities and in welfare and education (including infant and child care) .

From June to July 1920, Streiter was a member of the Reichstag for the first time on his party's proposal for a Reich election . The mandate was declared null and void on July 9, 1920 by the Reich Election Committee as a result of the election in constituency 6 (Polzin) being repeated. On March 7, 1921, Streiter returned to the Reichstag - again on the Reich election proposal - to which he was a member until May 1924 this time. During the budget deliberations, Streiter regularly presented his party's health and social policy positions. He also appeared as a speaker in debates on working hours in health and welfare services and in parliamentary disputes about the social pensions of war invalids and survivors. He was also a member of the 6th Committee of the Reichstag (Social Policy Committee) and the committee's rapporteur on important social policy issues. He also appeared in parliament calling for the expansion of technical emergency aid .

On the 6th delegates' day on September 4th and 5th, 1922 in Würzburg , the Nursing Association approved the merger with the "Central Association of Community Workers and Tramers", which took place on November 1st. After the merger, the community workers' organization took on the name “Central Association of Workers in Public Enterprises and Administrations”. Streiter, who had actually not wanted the merger, was taken on as a full-time employee in the new organization, in which the specialist group of nursing staff in the new association was now headed. At the Association Days in Würzburg in 1922 and in Münster in 1925 , he was co-opted into the board of the "Central Association". At the Düsseldorf Reich Conference on September 4, 1926, Streiter, as the theoretician of Christian nursing, presented the “Fundamentals of a Reich Nursing Law”.

From 1926 to 1928 Streiter was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

In December 1926, Streiter gave up the editing of the German nurse in order to be able to become more involved in the German Association of Officials (DBB). In 1927 he called the Reich Association of Nursing Staff in the DBB into being. In the Rundschau for German Nursing , Streiter developed the program of the organization that had fallen away from the Christian unions. At the same time he was President of the “German Society for Nursing”, an association that had set itself the goal of scientifically promoting nursing through training and advanced training courses.

Other tasks that Streiter performed were membership of the board of the Evangelical Social Congress , the Evangelical Social School in Bethel and the Herder University in Berlin. He was still participating in Stockholm aligned "General World Conference on political Christianity" in August 1925 and advisory board member of the constituted in Stockholm "research institute for economic and ethical issues". Finally, he was still on the board of trustees of the Dietrich Thora Foundation.

Period of National Socialism (1933 to 1945)

After the dissolution of his association and the integration of the members into the Reich Working Group of Public Enterprises, Streiter became a full-time employee of the Red Cross in 1933. On December 15, 1934, Streiter was arrested for the first time for a short time.

On November 1, 1944, Streiter was arrested in his office in the management staff of the Red Cross. The exact reasons for his arrest are not certain; However, a letter from his son from the 1960s indicates that Streiter was arrested for conveying messages to Polish and French prisoners of war. He was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . The exact circumstances of his death have not yet been fully clarified. It is believed, however, that Streiter was shot in Ravensbrück in the spring of 1945.

Honors

In Thuringia, the Institute for Nursing Science named after Streiter (Georg Streiter Institute) in the social affairs department of the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences in Jena reminds of Streiter's life and political and social activities. In the vicinity of his former place of activity in Berlin, the Reichstag, there is also a memorial plaque, which is part of the memorial for the murdered Reichstag members on Platz der Republik .

On June 8, 2009, a stumbling stone was laid in front of the former home of Streiters, Schönhauser Allee 130, in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg .

Fonts

  • The economic and social situation of occupational nursing in Germany , Jena 1910.
  • The nursing profession - not a transitory job, but a life job! A wake-up call , Osterwieck 1925.

As editor

  • Evangelical-social documents for German workers. From Bethel to Stockholm , Berlin 1926.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. 3rd edition, Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 , p. 571.

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SURNAME Streiter, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Ravensbrück