Gustav von Goßler

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Gustav von Goßler

Gustav Konrad Heinrich von Goßler (born April 13, 1838 in Naumburg (Saale) , † September 29, 1902 in Danzig ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official . He headed the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs and was President of the Province of West Prussia .

Life

Origin and family

Gustav Konrad Heinrich von Goßler was the son of Karl Gustav von Goßler (1810–1885) and Sophie von Mühler (1816–1877), the daughter of the Prussian State and Justice Minister Heinrich Gottlob von Mühler . He came from the Goßler family , 2nd line of the noble family. Four sons came from this marriage: in addition to Gustav, the three generals Heinrich Wilhelm Martin von Goßler (1841–1927) , Konrad Ernst von Goßler (1848–1933) and Albert Theodor Wilhelm von Goßler (1850–1928) .

Gustav von Goßler had married Mathilde von Simpson (born April 15, 1847 in Wensöwen near Marggrabowa , East Prussia; † February 13, 1901 in Danzig) on June 14, 1867 at Gut Georgenburg in the Gumbinnen district . She was the daughter of George William of Simpson . The marriage resulted in two sons (one died in infancy) and three daughters. One son was the later author and district administrator of the Naugard district Wilhelm Gustav von Goßler (1883–1945).

The daughter Mathilde Sophie Emilie von Goßler (* 1872) married Ernst Reinhold Gerhard von Glasenapp in 1904 .

Career

Gustav Konrad Heinrich von Goßler finished his school days at the Kneiphöfischen Gymnasium in Königsberg . He then studied law in Berlin , Heidelberg and Königsberg. He met Theodor Fontane around 1855 and in 1888 applied for the Knight's Cross of the Hohenzollern House Order to be awarded to Fontane. During his studies he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . As an auscultator, he started his legal career as a Prussian civil servant in 1859. In 1861 he became a trainee lawyer and in 1864 an assessor at the higher regional court in Insterburg . From 1865 to 1874 he was district administrator of the Darkehmen district . From 1874 he was an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior , where he was entrusted with the implementation of the new district regulations. In 1877 he became a 4 member of the Reichstag in the Gumbinnen district of the Reichstag and joined the German Conservative Party . In 1878 he accepted a position at the Higher Administrative Court , but it was not very satisfactory. The then Prussian minister of education, Robert Viktor von Puttkamer , brought him to his ministry in 1879 as undersecretary of state. In 1881 he was also elected President of the Reichstag , in the same year he succeeded Puttkamers as Minister for Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs ( Minister of Education), who had taken over the Ministry of the Interior, on June 17 .

The dominant theme in the area of ​​culture was the cultural war with the Catholic Church , which was gradually becoming less pronounced . Von Goßler adhered to the School Supervision Act of 1872 and got into a dispute with the center politician Ludwig Windthorst , who advocated the restoration of religious school supervision . Von Goßler also devoted himself to the problems of minorities in the Polish-populated areas. He opposed the increased penetration of the Polish language and banned the Polish language of instruction from elementary schools, including religious instruction , which was often given by Polish clergy. This suppressed the Polish, predominantly Catholic minority in the eastern provinces.

In 1884, Gustav von Goßler made it possible for Gottfried Berthold to study in Naples. He also extended his teaching post in Göttingen in 1885. He also paid attention to the university's appointment policy, including the appointment of Friedrich Althoff .

Following his conservative outlook and his humanistic concept of education, he held on to the primacy of the humanistic grammar school and opposed the expansion of the secondary schools and thus against the emperor. For these reasons, and also because the state leadership needed the support of the Catholic party, he left the ministerial office in 1891 after ten years after a reform of the Prussian school system had failed. Still highly valued by the emperor for his energy and eloquence, in 1902 he was appointed head president of the recently re-independent province of West Prussia with his official seat in Danzig. Here, too, he took a decisive stand against the Polish population. In addition to his crackdown on the Polish language in elementary schools, he increasingly brought in German farmers from the western parts of the empire in order to strengthen the German population in the province. He paid particular attention to the establishment of the TH Danzig .

In order to strengthen the military strength, he issued the Goßler'schen player decree in 1881 , which became the economic prerequisite for regular physical education in high schools. That became the prerequisite for the game movement . In order to support this organizationally, he also joined the Central Committee for the Promotion of Youth and Popular Games .

Awards

Street sign Goßlerstrasse, Berlin

Publications

  • On his initiative: The Natural Science and Medical State Institutions of Berlin: Festschrift for the 59th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Doctors , 1886.
  • Speeches and speeches. Berlin 1890.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses - page - ULB Düsseldorf. P. 272 ​​ff. , Accessed on March 26, 2018 .
  2. ^ Roland Berbig: Theodor Fontane Chronicle . Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-021560-1 , p. 471 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2018]).
  3. ^ Roland Berbig: Theodor Fontane Chronicle . Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-021560-1 , p. 2960 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Katharina Ruttig, Thomas Friedl, Volker Wissemann: "Whether you get angry with your food and arable land, don't get upset, because God created it": Gottfried Dietrich Wilhelm Berthold (1854–1937), a contribution to history in biology at Georgia Augusta Göttingen . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86395-022-4 , p. 46 ( google.de [accessed on May 16, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Katharina Ruttig, Thomas Friedl, Volker Wissemann: "Whether you get angry with your food and arable land, don't get upset, because God created it": Gottfried Dietrich Wilhelm Berthold (1854–1937), a contribution to history in biology at Georgia Augusta Göttingen . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86395-022-4 , p. 50 ( google.de [accessed on May 16, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Eerke U. Hamer: The beginnings of the "game movement" in Germany. (= Articles and sources on sport and society. Volume 3). Arena Publ., London 1989, ISBN 0-902175-48-3 .
  7. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Education through physical education or "Pro patria est dum ludere videmur". In: R. Dithmar, J. Willer (Hrsg.): School between Empire and Fascism. Knowledge Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1981, pp. 102–122.
  8. ↑ Gerd Steins (Ed.): Game Movement - Movement Game, 100 Years of Gossler's Player Decree. State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin, 7 May - 24 June 1982. Forum for Sports History, Berlin 1982, DNB 930675185 .
  9. ^ Members of the previous academies. Gustav Heinrich Konrad von Goßler. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed March 30, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Goßler, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goßler, Gustav Konrad Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian Minister of State and Politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1902
Place of death Danzig