Karl Pflug

Karl Hermann Felix Pflug (born January 14, 1880 in Waldenburg ; † April / May 1945 in Berlin-Nikolassee ) was a German educator and politician ( DNVP ).

Life

The son of the high school teacher Karl Pflug and Margarete, b. Examiner, attended the Humanist High School in Waldenburg, where he passed his Abitur at Easter 1898. He then studied German and Protestant theology at the universities in Marburg , Greifswald , Berlin , Halle and Breslau until 1902 . On May 27, 1903, he passed the state examination in philology . He completed his preparatory service at the royal Prussian grammar schools in Liegnitz , Kreuzburg and Lauban .

Pflug worked as a senior teacher at the royal grammar school in Ohlau from 1905 to 1909 and switched to the Helmholtz Realgymnasium in Schöneberg at Easter 1909 . From August 1914, he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer and was seriously wounded. During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, the Wound Badge and the Cross of Merit for War Aid.

After returning from the war, Pflug continued teaching in Schöneberg. In addition to his professional activity, he wrote articles for educational magazines and was co-editor of the National Education from 1919 to 1924 . After the November Revolution , he joined the German National People's Party (DNVP), was first chairman of the German National Teachers Association (DNLB) and chairman of the national political working group of the DNVP. In June 1920 he took part in the Reich School Conference as a representative of the DNLB . From March 1919 to January 1921 he was a member of the Schöneberg city council and after the formation of Greater Berlin, he was district councilor for the 11th district. In February 1921, he was elected to the Prussian Landtag as a national election proposal by the DNVP , to which he was a member until 1924.

From 1924 to 1933, Pflug was the director of the Friedenauer Gymnasium as senior teacher . At the end of the 1920s he lived at Maybachplatz 5.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Pflug was appointed to the Berlin Oberpräsidium (Provincial School Council) as a senior school officer. Just one year later, he was given early retirement due to the law to restore the civil service . In 1940 he took over the management of the boarding school Deutsche Heimschule in Waldsieversdorf . Ralf Dahrendorf , who was one of his students there, noted in his autobiography in 2002 that Pflug “hated Nazis”.

Karl Pflug was divorced and had a son. In 1942 he married Ulrike Scheidel, director of studies and a former member of the Reichstag . According to his first wife, he was shot dead by Red Army soldiers in his house in Berlin-Nikolassee on May 1, 1945. Together with his second wife, who also died in the shooting, he was buried in the old cemetery in Wannsee .

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Issue for the 1st electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1921, p. 290.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 1179.
• Franz Kössler: Personal Lexicon of 19th Century Teachers: Paalhorn – Pyrkosch. Advance publication, Giessen 2007 ( PDF; 4.0 MB ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christian Ritzi, Ulrich Wiegmann (ed.): Authorities and educational associations in National Socialism. Between adaptation, synchronization and resolution. Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2004, p. 151.
2. ↑ Centralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Prussia. Volume 76, 1934, p. 154.
3. ↑ Ralf Dahrendorf: Beyond borders. Life memories. 4th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49338-6 , pp. 62-63.
4. ↑ Paul Oestreich : From the life of a political educator. Autobiography. Verlag Volk und Wissen, Berlin / Leipzig 1947, p. 81.
5. ↑ Online project Memorial Monuments , accessed on November 4, 2015.