Michael Kausch (teacher)

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Michael Kausch , pseudonym: Hansjerch Prahlmann (born August 18, 1877 in Módos ( German  Modosch ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † December 18, 1942 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ) was a German - Romanian teacher and politician .

Life

Michael Kausch was born in Modosch on August 18, 1877. His father was a farmer, his mother Marianne geb. Schummer from the neighboring town of Tschawosch . According to the parents' wishes, the two oldest children, Josef and Margarete, should continue to run the farm and the two younger sons Michael and Peter study.

After finishing high school in Szegedin , Michael Kausch went to the seminary following the wishes of his parents . When he realized that the priesthood did not meet his wishes and ideas, he left the seminary without the consent of his parents. With tutoring for the subjects German and Hungarian he was able to finance his subsequent study of philosophy himself. After completing his degree, he obtained a doctorate in Dr. phil. with “summa cum laude.” He got his first job as a high school teacher and married Anna geb. Sorrow in Weißkirchen . Between 1906 and 1916 they both had four daughters, Marie, Hertha, Edith and Hedwig. The daughter Edith died very young.

Michael Kausch became a member of the German People's Party . Under the Hungarian Karolyi government , he was Section Councilor for the German School System until 1919. After the German-Swabian Cultural Association was founded in Timișoara, he and Karl von Möller were elected executive chairman of the association. Now he began, with the support of the German local groups that had meanwhile emerged with his initiative throughout the Banat , which at that time was divided between the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Romania , to promote the establishment of German-language schools in this area. This is how German-language grammar schools and secondary schools emerged all over the Banat, and German-language teaching had established itself in many other schools.

After the political situation in Timișoara had stabilized by incorporation into the Romanian state, Michael Kausch was appointed to the section council in the fall of 1919 with its seat in Timișoara and entrusted with the organization of the German school system in the Banat. In Timișoara, in addition to German kindergartens and elementary schools, a community school, a commercial school, a teacher training institute with German parallel classes, a boys 'and a girls' grammar school were established. Under the Brătianu government , Michael Kausch was elected as a liberal-democratic member of the Romanian parliament. In 1939 he retired from politics and taught at the teacher training college in Timișoara. In the meantime his three daughters had left Romania; the eldest daughter moved to Austria, the two younger ones married and moved to northern Germany. Michael Kausch died on December 28, 1942 after a brief illness. His wife Anna lived in Timișoara until 1947, where she passed away on April 2nd, 1947.

Fonts

  • The school and the public , Weißkirchen 1910.
  • Letters from the Swabian Parliament by Hansjerch Prahlmann , Timișoara 1926.
  • Turning point in the life of the Banat German people. The struggle to recapture the völkisch convictions and the national goods , Temeschburg 1939 ( DNB 560617763 )
  • Michael Kausch: New legal principles through the Karlsburger resolutions . Extrapost, Temeschburg 1940, OCLC 72131569 (52 pages).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk (Hrsg.): Publications of the Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk: Scientific works . Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1954, ISSN  0081-9115 , OCLC 213806670 , p. 141 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Kaspar Hill: policy and school: educational and cultural policy papers of a man Donauschwaben school (1933-1978) (=  Donauschwäbisches Archive: Research Report of the ADL . Band 7 , no. 1 ). AG Donauschwäbischer Lehrer, Munich 1978, OCLC 16272167 , p. 113 ff . (206 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Slovakia, Carpathian Ukraine, Croatia, Memelland Landtag, Silesian Landtag, comparative analysis, sources and literature, register . In: Gemeinnützige Hermann-Niermann-Stiftung, Düsseldorf (ed.): From Reval to Bucharest: Statistical-biographical manual of the parliamentarians of the German minorities in East-Central and Southeastern Europe, 1919–1945 . 1st edition. tape 2 . Documentation Verlag, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-5-0 , p. 570 ff . (987 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Kausch, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prahlmann, Hansjerch (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Romanian teacher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Modosch , Romania
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1942
Place of death Timișoara , Romania