Gerhard Gerlich

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Gerhard Gerlich (photo 1958)

Gerhard Gerlich (born September 9, 1911 in Troppau , Austria-Hungary , † December 27, 1962 in Neumünster ) was a German educator and politician ( CDU ).

education and profession

After graduating from a humanistic grammar school , he studied history and geography in Prague for higher education. At the Charles University in 1935 and his doctorate to Dr. phil. with a thesis on the politics of Corinth up to the Peloponnesian War . He then worked as a high school teacher at German schools in Czechoslovakia . On June 1, 1938, he joined the SS . The exact time of his entry into the NSDAP cannot be precisely determined. At the same time he was professor at the German State School Board for Bohemia in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in Prague and lecturer at the Pedagogical Academy there. He did military service in the Wehrmacht, most recently as Lieutenant dR Towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in 1947 to Neumünster . In the denazification process, he kept quiet about his SS membership. In Neumünster he received a teaching position in the technical school and was active first as a primary school teacher, later as a senior teacher at the grammar school. In 1948 he founded the “Aid Community of Sudeten Germans” with the former “Nazi politician Josef Domabyl ”.

family

Gerhard Gerlich was married to Emma Strilek and had four children. The children are called Gerhild (born April 13, 1941), Gerhard (born April 6, 1942), Gerburg (born July 30, 1943) and Gerlinde (born September 10, 1944 - † September 9, 1945). His brother was Walter Richard Gerlich

MP

Gerlich was a member of the CDU, whose state board in Schleswig-Holstein he belonged and from 1950 until his death he was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein for the CDU. From 1958 to 1962 he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group . From 1954 to 1958 Gerlich was deputy chairman of the state parliament committee for expellees and from October 29, 1962 until his death chairman of the finance committee. Gerlich had always entered the state parliament as a directly elected member of the Plön- Süd constituency . He participated as a member in the federal assemblies for the election of Theodor Heuss (1954) and in the election for Heinrich Lübke (1959).

Public offices

From August 7, 1950 to August 6, 1954, he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Minister of Education with responsibility for youth and sport in the state governments led by Prime Minister Walter Bartram and later Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke . From June 6, 1955 until his death he was parliamentary representative of the minister of education.

Honors

Gerlich was deputy chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Philologists Association and deputy chairman of the Sudeten German country team . The "Dr. Gerlich School" in Trappenkamp had been named to him since March 12, 1969. After Gerlich's secret SS membership became known through an expert report in 2015, the school conference submitted an application for renaming.

Works

  • The politics of Corinth up to the Peloponnesian War . Prague 1935 (Diss. Phil.)

literature

  • Klaus Deneke: Materials on the person of Dr. Gerhard Gerlich, about the Dr. Gerlich School Trappenkamp and the history of the communities of Trappenkamp and Bornhöved . Klaus Deneke, Kiel 2007, DNB  987041266 .
  • Christina Schubert: The members of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament after 1945. In: Sönke Zankel (Hrsg.): Scandals in Schleswig-Holstein. Contributions to the history competition of the Federal President . Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 2012, ISBN 978-3-88312-419-3 , p. 90.

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Gerlich  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bach systems sro: Digitální archive ZA v Opavě. Retrieved November 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Federal Archives Berlin, BDC RS B5131 / Gerlich, Prof. Dr. phil.
  3. ↑ Trappenkamp: Will the school be renamed? . In: Lübecker Nachrichten of July 16, 2016, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Tobias Weger : “Volkstumskampf” without end? Sudeten German Organizations 1945–1955. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 132 (Diss.University Olderburg 2005)
  5. ^ History of the Dr.-Gerlich School online
  6. ↑ Trappenkamp: Will the school be renamed? . In: Lübecker Nachrichten of July 16, 2016, p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Gerlich, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Troppau , Sudetenland
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1962
Place of death Neumunster