Karl Frey (politician, 1886)

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Karl Frey (born September 3, 1886 in Mengen (Schallstadt) ; † August 4, 1987 on Farm Eorondema, South West Africa ) was a German teacher and businessman , Senator of the South African Union .

Live and act

Frey was born the son of a master teacher and attended the grammar school in Ettenheim . He studied modern languages, English and French as well as German and French at the University of Strasbourg and the Sorbonne in Paris . During his studies in 1905 he became a member of the Arminia Strasbourg fraternity . In 1909 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate , in 1910 he passed the state examination for teachers and entered the state service of the Grand-Ducal Baden as a teacher. He taught at the grammar school in Durlach and the Goethe School in Karlsruhe . In 1911/12 he was a one-year volunteer with the infantry regiment "King Wilhelm II of Württemberg" (6th Royal Saxon) No. 105 .

In 1912 he worked at the Oberrealschule / Lessingschule in Mannheim , but in the same year he emigrated to German South West Africa , where he became a senior teacher at the imperial secondary school in Windhoek . He took part in the First World War from 1914 as a member of the Imperial Protection Force and was soon taken prisoner of war , so that he could only return to school in Windhoek in 1915. In 1920 he founded the German School Association Windhoek . In 1923, although a German citizen, he was accepted into the civil service of the South African Union through an intervention by Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts , and was second school inspector from 1923 to 1939 . In this function he was instrumental in building the school system for the indigenous population, which did not exist in this form before. From 1940 to 1946 he was imprisoned in several internment camps in South Africa . After his release, he bought the Eorondema farm in South West Africa and retired in 1946. In 1950 he was appointed to the excited he school board, dedicated to the development and expansion of public and private school system employed. He advocated the introduction of German as the third national language. In 1958 he became Senator for South West Africa in the Senate of the South African Union ( National Party ). Frey was a staunch supporter of apartheid and warned several times about the fall of white South Africa .

Publications

Frey published, among other things, a geography textbook and a school hiking map of South West Africa.

  • The classic saga of gods and heroes in the dramas by Marlowe, Lyly, Kyd, Greene and Peele. Karlsruhe 1909. Dissertation University of Strasbourg, 1909.
  • A regional geography of South West Africa. Windhoek, South West Africa 1924.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 71-72.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Eberhardt: Between National Socialism and Apartheid: The German Population Group of South West Africa 1915-1965. (Periplus Studies 10), Münster: LIT 2007 ISBN 9783825802257 , p. 163
  2. ↑ Martin Eberhardt: Between National Socialism and Apartheid: The German Population Group of South West Africa 1915-1965. (Periplus Studies 10), Münster: LIT 2007 ISBN 9783825802257 , p. 501, see also p. 469f for his view on ethnicity
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and businessman, Senator of the South African Union
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Quantities (Schallstadt)
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1987
Place of death Farm Eorondema, South West Africa