Hans Schregle

Hans Schregle (born April 7, 1890 in Nuremberg , † January 13, 1970 in Erlangen ) was a German college teacher and politician ( SPD ). After the Second World War he was briefly Lord Mayor of Ansbach . From October 1945 he held office as district president of Upper (until 1948) and Middle Franconia (until 1958).

Life

Hans Schregle was the son of a master saddler. He studied at the University of Erlangen . Originally he was interested in studying botany, but because of his talent for languages ​​and on the advice of his professors, he decided to major in new languages. He studied Romance languages (French, Italian and Spanish) and English and other languages ​​such as Russian and Arabic. On the side, he continued to educate himself in botany and his other passions, art, history, and art history.

Hans Schregle was also very committed to sports. After he became a member of 1. FC Nürnberg in 1907 , he was chairman of the club (1925-1930) and 1946-1947 president.

From 1911 to 1912, in an exchange program as part of his French studies, he was sent to Châteauroux in France by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture . In August 1914 he passed his university examination at the University of Erlangen and pursued his studies in German literary history. He then went to London for a few months to complete his English. After his return he wrote his doctoral thesis on Goethe's " Götz von Berlichingen ", which was published in 1923 by Niemeyer Verlag.

During the First World War, Hans Schregle was not sent to the front for health reasons (as a child he was seriously injured in a traffic accident), but was delegated to Grafenwoehr near Nuremberg as an interpreter in a German camp for French prisoners of war.

After the end of the war he went back to Erlangen, where he was called a study assistant and later a teacher at the Humanistic Gymnasium in Erlangen - Hans Schregle was an exceptional teacher and was very popular with his students.

Hans Schregle was politically active from an early age, against Adolf Hitler and National Socialism . On June 27, 1931, he published the article "Hitler's anesthesia and what's behind it" in the Erlanger Volksblatt. After Hitler came to power in March 1933, he was taken into protective custody as a Bavarian school advisor. He managed to warn various Jewish families of their imminent arrest and helped them and the Emil Rotenstein family (with the other dissident Michael Poeschke ) to flee. He himself was to be sent to Dachau , but was finally transferred to the Carolinum Gymnasium in Ansbach in November 1933 . There he met Robert Limpert and other supporters of the Ansbach resistance.

When the American army liberated Ansbach on April 18, 1945, Hans Schregle was appointed mayor of Ansbach by its city commandant Edward Haight because of his political convictions and his perfect knowledge of English. In October 1945 the military government appointed him to the office of regional president of Upper and Middle Franconia . He was confirmed in this office by the Bavarian Prime Minister with a document dated January 17, 1946, issued on January 31, 1946, retrospectively to October 15, 1945.

As part of his service, he continued to decorate the American former Secretary of War John J. McCloy , who had saved the city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber from total destruction.

From April 30, 1949, after the administrative separation of Upper and Middle Franconia, he was the District President of Middle Franconia. After his retirement in 1958, Hans Schregle moved back to Erlangen. Hans Schregle was married to Marie Schregle (nee Rothmund) and has two sons, Johannes Schregle (1922) who lives in Geneva, and Götz Schregle ( 1923-2014 ) a well-known Arabist.

In Ansbach, Schreglestrasse is named after him.

Web links

• House of Bavarian History: Dr. phil. Hans Schregle , accessed on October 16, 2016.
• Literature by and about Hans Schregle in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

• Hans Woller: Society and politics in the American zone of occupation: The Ansbach and Fürth region 1945-1949 , Oldenbourg Verlag, 1986. ISBN 3-486-53841-1 .