Karl Schrader (politician, 1834)

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Karl Wilhelm Franz Gabriel Schrader (born April 4, 1834 in Wolfenbüttel , † May 4, 1913 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) was a German lawyer and politician, co-founder of many social institutions, foundations and associations.

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Schrader grew up with his father's three children from his first marriage in Wolfenbüttel. Shortly after the birth of his brother, who was two and a half years his junior, his mother died. Karl Schrader studied law in Berlin and Göttingen after graduating from high school . In 1853 he became a member of the Alemannia Göttingen old fraternity . After completing his studies, he took on a leading position as an administrative clerk at the Duke of Braunschweig State Railways . In addition, he was involved in the social field:

He founded a men's gymnastics club, a savings and credit association, a building cooperative for little people who could get their homes and property in this way, a branch of the Lette association of the association founded by Adolf Lette in 1866 to promote higher education and employability of women, and he even becomes secretary of the Patriotic Women's Association .

Karl Schrader wrote about the latter association:

The association devoted itself to its tasks with seriousness, procured a nursing home, accepted nurses and worked diligently in the care of the wounded in 1870/71 ... In the association, through my vote, I had given the decision that not secular nurses but deaconesses should be employed became ... After my departure, a large deaconess house developed from it.

In 1872 he was appointed director of the Berlin-Anhalter Railway . In the same year Karl Schrader married Henriette Breymann . The couple moved to Berlin. In 1883 the lawyer took on a consultancy role for Deutsche Bank , was a member of the supervisory board of the Anatolian railway company from 1889 and sat on the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank from 1894.

Schrader was also active politically. At first he belonged to the left wing of the National Liberal Party and with it carried out all the splits and associations between 1880 and 1910, starting with the Liberal Association (1880), through the German Liberal Party (1884) and the Liberal Association (1893), to the Progressive People's Party (1910). As a member of these parties, he sat in the Reichstag for a total of 26 years between 1881 and 1913 - with a brief interruption . Schrader was also president of the German Protestant Association he co-founded , which propagated liberal Protestantism. He also worked as a local politician in Schöneberg and was elected the first elder in the first election of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Schöneberg.

In the capital of the German Empire, the Schraders set up many social institutions, associations and foundations, for example the “Berlin Association for Home Health Care” and in 1874 the “Berlin Association for Public Education”. The latter association was able to acquire a house at Steinmetzstrasse 16 in Schöneberg as early as 1879. Among other things, a seminar for kindergarten teachers and nanny, a cooking and housekeeping school as well as facilities for preschool and school children were created there. The Schrader institution, which quickly enjoyed a good reputation far beyond the city, which still exists today in a different form and to which he bequeathed all of his fortune, was named “ Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus ” in memory of the great educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Friedrich Froebel . In 1886, Schrader was also a co-founder of the Berlin building cooperative , in which he was initially a member of the supervisory board and from 1900 until his death on the board.

Today Karl Schrader is remembered in several places in Berlin: The street in front of the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus was renamed Karl-Schrader-Straße a few months after his death. The Berlin building cooperative had built houses in the Baumschulenweg district ; Schrader was its chairman, which Schraderstrasse has been remembering there since 1904. Commemorative plaques were also placed in Klosterstrasse (district Mitte ) and Malplaquetstrasse 14a (district Wedding ).

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  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 325.
  2. ↑ Moltmann-Wendel 2003, p. 111 f.
  3. ↑ quoted from Lyschinska 1927, p. 512 f.
  4. ^ Karl-Schrader-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  5. ↑ Schraderstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Schrader, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schrader, Karl Wilhelm Franz Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (DFP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1913
Place of death Berlin-Schöneberg