Hans Sievers (politician)

Hans Daniel Charles Sievers (* 25. February 1893 in Hamburg , † 16th February 1965 in Kiel ) was a German educator and SPD - politician . From 1927 to 1930 he was Brunswick Minister of Justice and Education.

life and work

The son of a businessman attended high school from 1903 to 1908. Since then he has been learning and committed to the planned language Esperanto . He then completed the teachers' seminar in Braunschweig by 1914. He took part in the First World War between April 1914 and April 1916 . From 1916 he worked as a primary school teacher in Deensen , Heckenbeck , Langelsheim and from 1919 in Braunschweig. Sievers was initially a member of the SPD, switched to the USPD in 1919 , the KPD in 1920 and rejoined the SPD in 1922.

Braunschweig State Minister

Sievers was a member of the Braunschweig Landtag from 1920 to 1933 . In the Cabinet Oerter he was from June 22 to October 23, 1920 Minister of Education. As a supporter of the Association of Resolute School Reformers , he was Minister of Justice and Education for the People under the Social Democratic Prime Minister Jasper from December 1927 to September 1930. Sievers' school program included the introduction of academic teacher training, the introduction of the 9th year of elementary school and the downsizing of the school supervisory groups. In the controversial Sieverschen school decree of 1928, he campaigned for the separation of school and church. With the Vocational Schools Act passed in 1929, the state became the sole provider of vocational schools. The compulsory vocational school was extended up to the age of 18. On February 2, 1930, he opened the Research Institute for Educational Sciences in the Salve Hospes house . Under the National Socialist Minister of the Interior and Education, Franzen , who had been in office since October 1, 1930 , significant parts of his school policy were repealed.

Emigration and return to Germany

In 1933 Sievers emigrated to Denmark and thus escaped the wave of arrests and abuse against social democratic members of the state parliament in Braunschweig. He worked as a translator, tour guide and camp manager for German refugees in Odense . In 1940 he fled to Stockholm , where he worked as a journalist and language teacher. In 1945 he returned to Denmark and until 1948 organized school lessons for German refugee children living there. After his return to Germany, Sievers was government director in the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of the Interior and Education from 1948 to 1957 . From 1950 to 1954 Sievers headed the reparation department in the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of the Interior under Minister Paul Page . From 1954 until he retired in 1957, Sievers was head of the state compensation office.

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 .
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Gerhard Schildt (Hrsg.): Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia. Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-930-29228-9 .
• Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 123-24 .
• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( Sievers, Hans ) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} biography of Hans Sievers . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
2. ^ Thomas Pusch: Political Exile as Migration History. Schleswig-Holstein emigrants and Scandinavian exile 1933-1960. Flensburg 2003, p. 461f. Full text