Karl Steinhoff (administrative lawyer)

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Karl Steinhoff (born June 25, 1893 in Varel , † June 2, 1996 in Oldenburg ) was a North German teacher, lawyer, first senior district director of the Friesland district after the end of World War II, author and translator.

Life

Karl Steinhoff was born in 1893 as the son of master rope maker Heinrich Steinhoff in Varel in the district of Friesland . He spent his childhood and youth in the Haferkamp in Varel.

When asked by a customer whether his son would also become a master rope maker, Heinrich Steinhoff replied: “Oh, dor schall don't want to väl van weern, de Jung sitt all day eight de Boker”.

At home they spoke Low German, at school "the first (and only) foreign language" was High German. He first attended the elementary school for boys on Windallee together with his cousin Ludwig Eden, with whom he had no friendship. Karl Steinhoff later switched to the "Höhere Lehranstalt", the boys' grammar school in the small Frisian town. At the age of 15, his parents' house burned down and his family was temporarily housed in the neighborhood until the home was rebuilt.

In order to be able to take his Abitur, he switched to the Leibniz School in Hanover for a day . In 1920 he prepared himself for the Abitur examination himself and without outside help, which "cost a bit of work".

After graduating from high school, he moved to Oldenburg (Oldb) and completed training at the Evangelical Teachers' College in Oldenburg from 1908 to 1913 . Among his classmates were the poet Georg von der Vring and the later publisher Peter Suhrkamp , with whom Karl Steinhoff was loosely friends.

After graduating, he worked as a teacher at various village schools in the Oldenburger Land between 1913 and 1920 . He then also worked at the Varel teacher training college. Between all the academically trained teacher colleagues, he harbored a great desire: at the university to study. Therefore Karl Steinhoff took leave in 1921 by his ministry and moved to Berlin in order there law to study. Then he switched to the universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen and completed his studies with a successful doctorate . In 1925 he published his legal dissertation under the title "The development of divorce law in the struggle between state and church".

He recorded his childhood and youth memories and thus at the same time a documentary about a youth in the turn of the century in Friesland in the autobiography "Das Seilerrad" written in 1980.

In 1934 he married Gretha von Halem from Glückstadt . She brought three daughters into the marriage: Sigrid Feuerherdt, Liselotte Froese, geb. Feuerherdt and Lore Vogt, b. Feuerherdt. One of his five grandchildren is the art historian Prof. Dr. Paul Vogt , another of the physicists Prof. Dr. Manfried Faber.

He was the lodge brother of the Oldenburg Freemasons . He was the author of many articles and several books. As the editor of the history of Oldenburg teacher training , he received a literary award from the Oldenburg School History Foundation of the Education and Science Union on December 9, 1979. In the eulogy was noted that one of his students from the Bissel he village school, Wilhelm Grotelüschen, later professor and rector of the University of Education Oldenburg was.

His personal preferences included translating Anglo-Saxon poetry and reading original Latin and ancient Greek texts. A selection of his translations was published on his 100th birthday. As a long-standing church leader of the Eversten-Ansgari parish, he asked for donations for the third church bell instead of gifts or flowers at his birthday party. He last lived at Helene-Lange-Straße 28 in the Eversten district of Oldenburg . He died shortly before his 103rd birthday. The funeral service was held in Eversten Ansgari Church.

Services

Between 1931 and 1945 he was deputy head of the Oldenburg State Insurance Company, where he acquired extensive knowledge of administration.

Since he had always distanced himself from National Socialism , he was after the end of the war by the Allies, British and Canadians, together with the temporary senior city director Dr. Fritz Koch was placed at the head of the administration of the city of Oldenburg. As a member of the government, Karl Steinhoff took over the following departments with effect from May 11, 1945: Welfare and Youth Welfare Office, Family Maintenance Office, Police Office and the Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital and Oldenburg Women's Clinic. So for a few weeks he had acted as "a kind of mayor" and campaigned for the well-being of Oldenburg.

Since June 9, 1945, he worked as provisional district administrator in Jever and on December 20, 1945 he was elected the first senior district director of the district of Friesland . His main activity was the rebuilding of the public administration and a new infrastructure. For example, he campaigned for the expansion of what was then the Olympic plant in Wilhelmshaven . In addition, during his tenure in office he was committed to accepting and supporting refugees. In the 1960s he was also the deputy chairman of the Lower Saxony District Association .

When a Canadian officer planned to evacuate Wangerooge's civil society , he saved the island with his level-headedness and excellent language skills. In 1957 he retired. In an obituary, District Administrator Karin Evers-Meyer described him as follows: “With energy, self-sacrificing commitment, tireless drive and outstanding ability, the deceased decisively promoted the development of the district and the establishment of its facilities in the difficult post-war years. He always had great understanding for the concerns and needs of the population ”.

Karl Steinhoff was not only highly committed full-time, but also voluntarily:

  • For 14 years he was president of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg (1958–1972), of which he had been a member since 1945;
  • Together with the senior district director of the Wesermarsch district, Bernhard von Kampen, he was a co-founder of the Oldenburg-East Frisian Water Association . For 30 years, until 1979, he was the first deputy head of the Deichverband, and for one year he was also head of the association.
  • from 1948 to 1959 he was chairman of the Oldenburg State Welfare Association (today: Oldenburg District Association).
  • he was a member of the Oldenburg State Association for History, Natural History and Local History
  • from 1960 he was chairman of the "Circle of Friends of the Oldenburg University of Education"; after conversion as a university advisory board member of the university society
  • In 1961 he was together with Dr. Kurt Hartong founder and since March 26, 1966 honorary member of the Oldenburg Foundation (predecessor of the Oldenburg landscape )
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The President of the Oldenburg Landscape , who gave a laudation on Karl Steinhoff's 95th birthday, praised him as a man with “a good fund of education and experience, ability and performance, with strong commitment and high integrity, aloof calm and calm Superiority has developed, cultivated and preserved values ​​of our culture on a voluntary basis in our region over many decades ”.

Works

  • The rope wheel. A North German small town youth around 1900, Heinz Holzberg Verlag, Oldenburg 1980.
  • Childhood memories Appendix: The last master rope maker in the Friesland district. Youth memories - translations - short stories - lyric finale, 1971

Editing

  • Heinrich Diers / Karl Steinhoff / Hermann Thole (eds.): Oldenburgische Heimatpflege in the sphere of activity of the Oldenburg Foundation, Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever 1963
  • Herbert Morgen / Hermann Lübbing / Karl Steinhoff (eds.): The rural small community in northwest Germany from a historical, administrative and sociological point of view, Gebrüder Jänecke Verlag, Hanover 1963
  • Karl Steinhoff / Wolfgang Schulenberg (eds.): The Protestant Seminars (History of Oldenburg Teacher Training, Volume 1), Holzberg-Verlag Oldenburg 1979
  • Karl Steinhoff / Wolfgang Schulenberg (eds.): Teacher training between 1926 and 1945 (History of Oldenburg Teacher Training, Volume 2), Holzberg-Verlag Oldenburg 1985.
  • Karl Steinhoff / Wolfgang Schulenberg / Hilke Günther-Arndt (eds.): Teacher training in Oldenburg 1945–1973: From the Pedagogical Academy to the University (History of Oldenburg Teacher Training, Volume 3), Heinz Holzberg-Verlag, Oldenburg 1991

items

  • Article "The literary-sociable association of 1839", in: Ders. / Heinrich Diers / Hermann Thole (ed.), Oldenburgische Heimatpflege in the sphere of activity of the Oldenburg Foundation, Jever 1963, 44f.
  • Article "Oldenburgische Deichliteratur 200 years ago", in: Friesische Heimat 11 (1972)
  • Article “The spiritual and cultural situation in Oldenburg around the turn of the century”, in: Oldenburg around 1900, 1975, 221–250
  • Article “The Oldenburg State Trade Exhibition of 1905”, in: Oldenburg around 1900; 1975, 173-188
  • Article "Carl Küchler, an Oldenburg Nordland researcher", in: Leuchtfeuer 28/6 (1976)
  • Article “The first theologian at the head of the Oldenburg Church. On the 100th birthday of Heinrich Tilemann ", in: Oldenburger Sonntagsblatt 24 (1977), 4
  • Article “Gerhard Anton von Halem (1752–1819). Oldenburg historian, writer and citizen of the world in the Age of Enlightenment ”, in: Oldenburgische Familienkunde Heft 1, March 1980, pp. 147–167

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted: Ders., Seilerrad , page 118
  2. ↑ Quoted: Ders., Seilerrad , page 113
  3. ↑ See: Ders., Seilerrad , page 14
  4. ↑ a b article "I come from the previous century". Dr. Karl Steinhoff turns 90 - and is in the middle of life, NordWestZeitung from June 27, 1983
  5. ↑ Article by Peter Suhrkamp , accessed on July 9, 2017.
  6. ↑ Göttingen University Catalog (GUK) - error / results / forgotten. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  7. ↑ The rope wheel
  8. ↑ See the obituary of the NordWestZeitung on June 5, 1996
  9. ↑ Article in the NordWestZeitung from June 24, 1993: “A man from the very beginning”. Senior District Director aD Dr. Karl Steinhoff 100 years old tomorrow "
  10. ↑ Cf. “Karl Steinhoff's Memories” in: Fritz Koch: Oldenburg 1945. Memories of a Mayor, Holzberg Verlag Oldenburg 1984, pp. 56–68, in which the execution of the tasks is described in a diary.
  11. ↑ a b Report of the Oldenburg Foundation eV for the year 1965, in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch Vol. 64 (1965), 133–154, 134
  12. ^ Obituary notice of the district of Friesland in the NWZ from June 5, 1996
  13. ↑ See the directory of members of the Oldenburger Landesverein für Geschichte, Natur- und Heimatkunde, in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 58, Volume 2: Naturkunde und Prehistory (1959), 166
  14. ^ Information sheet from the University of Oldenburg from 1983 , page 4, accessed on July 9, 2017.
  15. ↑ Third Annual Report (1963) of the Oldenburg Foundation eV, in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch Vol. 63 (1964), 181–196, 183
  16. ↑ Quoted from: NWZ article “A role model” from the series “Names = Messages” from June 27, 1988
personal data
SURNAME Steinhoff, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, lawyer, senior district director, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Varel
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1996
Place of death Oldenburg