Max Greil

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Max Richard Greil (born August 31, 1877 in Lößnitz ; † December 2, 1939 in Weimar ) was a German educator , school councilor , socialist education reformer and Thuringian minister of education ( USPD , from 1922 SPD ).

Life

Max Greil came from a family of craftsmen; his father was a shoemaker . After attending elementary school , he completed the teachers' seminar in Schleiz from 1892 to 1898 . From 1898 to 1919 he worked as a primary school teacher, first in Triebes and then from 1907 at the Luther School in Gera . There he also ran a committed educational policy. He joined the USPD in 1919 and became chairman of the teachers' council for the Reuss area and at the same time a member of the Reuss state parliament . During this time he was also a school councilor in Gera. From 1921 to 1924 Greil was the Thuringian Minister for Public Education. As a supporter of the Association of Decided School Reformers , he campaigned for a radical reform of the Thuringian school system: for longer joint learning, for contemporary educational content and for the separation of school and church , which brought him sharp opposition from conservative and ethnic circles. In 1922 he joined the SPD and with her mandate was a member of the Thuringian state parliament until 1932 . Until his death he lived in Weimar as Minister of State a. D. The hostility of the Nazi rulers and excitement about himself made his heart disease worse. On December 2, 1939, he died of a heart attack on the street. Greil left behind his wife, two sons and a daughter.

Honors

  • The grammar school in Schleusingen was called from 1946 to 1991 "Max-Greil-Oberschule".
  • The state regular school in Weida bears the name "Max Greil School".
  • There is a “Max Greil settlement” in the Tröbsdorf district of Weimar .

See also

literature

  • Paul Mitzenheim: The Greil school reform in Thuringia , Jena: Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., 1966
  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 550
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it ?, Volume 9/1928 , Leipzig 1928, p. 523

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State regular school "Max Greil" Weida ( Memento from July 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved May 21, 2011
  2. ↑ Christian Faludi: The “new” versus the “old spirit”. Willingness to reform and resistance at the University of Jena 1921-24 . In: Michael Dreyer, Andreas Braune (ed.): Weimar writings on the republic . tape 2 . Steiner, Stuttgart 2018, p. 285-306 .
personal data
SURNAME Greil, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greil, Max Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German state politician (USPD / SPD) and educational reformer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Loessnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1939
Place of death Weimar