Heinrich Landahl

Heinrich Landahl (born January 25, 1895 in Altona , † October 22, 1971 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( DDP , SPD ) and long-standing Hamburg school senator .

Life

Landahl - son of a teacher - took part in the First World War as a volunteer . His right hand was permanently damaged by a war wound. In 1919 he became a teacher and joined the left-wing liberal German Democratic Party (DDP). From 1926 to 1933 he was the rector of the lightwark school in Hamburg, which is oriented towards reform pedagogy .

On October 3rd, 1924 Gustav Dahrendorf , Egon Bandmann, Theodor Haubach and Alfred Vagts (all SPD) as well as Heinrich Landahl, Hans Robinsohn and Ernst Strassmann (all DDP) founded the club of October 3rd . On the one hand, his aim was to fight together against the enemies of the Weimar Republic . On the other hand, it should also ensure mutual support for political initiatives.

From 1924 to 1933 Landahl was a member of the Hamburg parliament , in 1930 he was one of its vice-presidents. In 1933 he was a member of the Reichstag for a short time , where he voted for Hitler's Enabling Act on March 23, 1933, together with the other members of his party, which has since been renamed the German State Party ( DStP ) - including the later Federal President Theodor Heuss .

Landahl, however, was a staunch Democrat and was therefore retired after the 1933 summer vacation for political reasons with a small pension. At first he worked as a private teacher. After the founding of the publishing house H. Goverts by the two publishers Henry Goverts and Eugen Claassen , Landahl had been an employee since 1935. In retrospect, he described these years as a time of inner emigration .

Resting place of the Heinrich Landahl family

From 1945 to 1953 and from 1957 to 1961, Landahl, who has since joined the SPD , was the first post-war school senator in Hamburg to be responsible for rebuilding the Hamburg school system and the university. In the first few years he was one of the initiators alongside Adolf Grimme who enabled German prisoners of war incarcerated in English camps to graduate from the Norton Camp study camp . The administration led by him was responsible for the recognition of the Abitur taken in England, which was successful in that the Norton Abitur was finally recognized in all three western zones.

From October 1950 to November 1951 and again from March to December 1961 he was President of the Conference of Ministers of Education . From 1946 to 1966 he was also a member of the citizenship again.

Landahl became an honorary senator at the University of Hamburg in 1962 . In 1965 he was awarded the Mayor Stolten Medal and in the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Hamburg.

He died on October 22, 1971 in his hometown of Hamburg and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

literature

Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Landahl, Heinrich. In: Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . Lexicon of persons. Vol. 5. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , pp. 224-226.
Rainer Nicolaysen : The “yes” of a later social democrat. About Heinrich Landahl (1895–1971) and his approval of the “Enabling Act” on March 23, 1933. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . Vol. 98, 2012, pp. 151-192.

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Landahl in the catalog of the German National Library
Newspaper article about Heinrich Landahl in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Heinrich Landahl in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Start as a bourgeois left party (= DemOkrit. Vol. 3). Martin Meidenbauer Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 , pp. 68f. (At the same time: Hamburg, Helmut Schmidt University, dissertation, 2004).
↑ Bernhard Zeller (Ed.): Eugen Claassen. From the work of a publisher. Marbacher Magazin 19/1981, p. 8.
↑ Nicolaus Schmidt, Willi Lassen - a biographical sketch, in "Democratic History" Vol. 26, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, 2015, pp. 205f
^ List of KMK presidents since 1948 .
↑ Honorary Senators of the University of Hamburg ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
^ Johann Anselm Steiger (Ed.): 500 years of theology in Hamburg. Hamburg as a center of Christian theology and culture between tradition and future. With a directory of all doctorates of the theological faculty Hamburg (= work on church history. Vol. 95). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2005, ISBN 3-11-018529-6 , p. 487.

personal data
SURNAME	Landahl, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (DDP, SPD), MdHB, MdR and Hamburg School Senator
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altona
DATE OF DEATH	October 22, 1971
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Start as a bourgeois left party (= DemOkrit. Vol. 3). Martin Meidenbauer Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 , pp. 68f. (At the same time: Hamburg, Helmut Schmidt University, dissertation, 2004).

[2] Bernhard Zeller (Ed.): Eugen Claassen. From the work of a publisher. Marbacher Magazin 19/1981, p. 8.

[3] Nicolaus Schmidt, Willi Lassen - a biographical sketch, in "Democratic History" Vol. 26, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, 2015, pp. 205f

[4] List of KMK presidents since 1948 .

[5] Honorary Senators of the University of Hamburg ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).

[6] Johann Anselm Steiger (Ed.): 500 years of theology in Hamburg. Hamburg as a center of Christian theology and culture between tradition and future. With a directory of all doctorates of the theological faculty Hamburg (= work on church history. Vol. 95). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2005, ISBN 3-11-018529-6 , p. 487.