Max Kreuziger

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Max Paul Eduard Kreuziger (born August 13, 1880 in Berlin ; † March 12, 1953 there ) was a German educator and local politician .

Career

From 1898 to 1901, Max Kreuziger, born the son of a tailor, studied at the teachers' college in Berlin . From 1902, after one year of military service, he worked as a teacher .

After the First World War , Kreuziger became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1921 to 1922 he was a member of the district assembly in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district . In 1922, Kreuziger was appointed rector of a community school in Weddingen . In the years 1922 to 1928 Kreuziger was a city councilor in addition to his professional activities in the city ​​council of Greater Berlin . In 1928 he was appointed to the Berlin Magistrate School Council. In 1931, Kreuziger moved to the Prussian Ministry of Culture as a consultant for secular schools . His goal was consistently a social democratic school reform .

December 1932, after the von Papens coup , Kreuziger was dismissed from the administrative service, so that he worked again as a teacher. With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Kreuziger came more and more into the political sights. In September 1933 he was discharged from teaching combined with constant police supervision. From 1934, Kreuziger worked in various bookstores. As a result of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 , Kreuziger was also arrested and imprisoned for over two months in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

After the Second World War , the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) appointed him as Deputy District Mayor in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district . As a social democrat, Kreuziger actively supported the unification of the SPD and KPD to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and was also a member of the program committee.

From 1946 to 1948, Kreuziger was again a member of the city council as a city councilor of the SED and, together with Paul Oestreich , Ernst Wildangel and Richard Schallock, was involved in the drafting and implementation of the Berlin Unified Schools Act. Most recently, from 1948 to 1951, Kreuziger was city ​​councilor for public education in the city ​​of Greater Berlin .

Honors

In June 1950 he received the award of Honored Teacher of the People from GDR President Wilhelm Pieck .

Max Kreuziger was buried in March 1953 in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery . In addition, a new school built in Berlin-Friedrichshain in 1954 was given the honorary name Max-Kreuziger-Grundschule (Böcklinstrasse 1), which was later expanded into a secondary school. The house is now a listed building , but has not served as a school for several years. A real estate company acquired it and had it converted into a residential building, which was given the name Max-Kreuziger-Haus .

Works

  • The community school in its relationship to family and state . In: The School of the Community. On behalf of the Central Institute for Education and Teaching. Leipzig, 1925, pp. 81-89.
  • Martin Schulz with the assistance of Max Kreuziger: Old and New Berlin. A practical home book . Beltz, Langensalza 1930. (= O ur Berlin 1)
  • On the question of practical professional meetings (advanced training meetings) according to the decree of June 4, 1931 . In: Zentralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Prussia . 1932. Digitized
  • Our educational program. Speech given at the Pedagogical Congress, Leipzig, September 1947 . People and knowledge, Berlin, Leipzig 1947.
  • The school reform in Berlin. Lecture on January 29, 1947 in the Deutsches Theater . Huth, Berlin 1947.
  • Without democratization of the school there is no new democratic spirit . In: New School - New Spirit. The fight for the Berlin school reform . Regional Association of Greater Berlin of the SED, Berlin 1947, pp. 35–45.
  • Accountability report for the second year of the democratic unified school . People and knowledge, Berlin, Leipzig 1948.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Hoffmann : Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. A German national cemetery. Cultural and historical guide. Das Neue Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00959-2 , p. 133.
  2. ↑ Monument to the Max Kreuziger Primary School, 1953/54 by the architect Hans Schmidt
  3. ↑ Detailed information on the Max Kreuziger House. In: Friedrichshain. - Journal for Urban Renewal ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 11th year, issue 3/2005; Retrieved March 15, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friedrichshain-magazin.de
personal data
SURNAME Kreuziger, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreuziger, Max Paul Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1953
Place of death Berlin