Martin Karsten

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Martin Elimar August Johannes Karsten (born December 21, 1890 in Plau , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , † December 19, 1995 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the DDP and the CDU .

Life

Grave of Martin Karsten Friedhof Plau am See
Parents grave

Karsten's parents were the pastor Albert Karsten (1852–1920) and his wife Katharine geb. Bad luck. Grandfather was Pastor Achim Franz Sigismund Gottlieb Karsten (1821–1888), great-grandfather Pastor Heinrich Ludwig Johann Karsten (1791–1871), great-great-grandfather Franz Christian Lorenz Karsten (1751–1829). Heinrich Schliemann , who discovered Troy, was a great uncle.

After graduating in 1909, Martin Karsten studied Classical Philology at the University of Rostock , the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich . He took part in the First World War as a soldier. In 1919 he entered the school service as a teacher at the Schwerin Lyceum with a college in Schwerin . Politically, he joined the DDP; At times he was chairman of the Schwerin local group. In 1936 he was transferred to the Schwerin high school for boys. In the post-war period in Germany , Karsten was one of the founders of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 1945 he took over the chairmanship of the Schwerin local group and was chairman of the Schwerin district association from April 6, 1946. In the municipal elections in the Soviet Zone in 1946 he received a mandate for the Schwerin city council. Even after the DC circuit of the East German CDU Karsten remained connected to the party. In 1950 he was heavily attacked by the SED because he refused to accept their leadership role. The minister of education of Mecklenburg Gottfried Grünberg also made Karsten jointly responsible for the differences between church-bound youth and the FDJ at the Goethe high school , where he taught. Karsten was therefore forcibly transferred to another school as a teacher. Karsten volunteered beyond his retirement age in the Schwerin cathedral community and in the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg. He died in Hamburg at the age of 105 and was buried in the family grave in Plau am See.

swell

  • ACDP 03-036-031, hand file on local politics, district association Schwerin, curriculum vitae Martin Karsten o. D.
  • BStU: "Tatort" Goethe School. The events at the Schwerin Goethe School from 1949 to 1953: [1]
  • Georg Herbstritt : Remaining true to oneself through the ages. Martin Karsten died at the age of 105 , in: Schweriner Volkszeitung, January 6, 1996, p. 11
  • Georg Herbstritt: "... creating the new person." School and education in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the conflicts over the Goetheschool in Schwerin from 1945 to 1953. Schwerin 1996
  • Schwießelmann, Christian: The CDU in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 1945 to 1952. From the founding to the dissolution of the regional association: a representation of the history of the party , Düsseldorf 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry of Martin Karsten's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Karsten, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karsten, Martin Elimar August Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians of the DDP and the CDU
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Plau , Mecklenburg-Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1995
Place of death Hamburg