Oskar Drees

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Oskar Drees also Oscar Drees , (born May 2, 1889 in Burhave ; † June 28, 1968 in Bremen ) was a German educator, sports official, politician ( SPD ) and member of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

Education, work and family

Drees attended elementary school in Burhave and Atens . From 1904 to 1911 he graduated from the Bremen teachers' seminar on Hamburger Strasse. Then he worked as a primary school teacher in Bremen- habenhausen . From 1913 he served in the military and from 1914 to 1918 was a soldier in the First World War .

From 1918/19 to 1933 he was again a teacher at elementary schools in habenhausen and in Arsten . In 1933 he was dismissed by the National Socialists as a social democrat . From 1937 to 1945 he worked, mediated by shipyard director Franz Stapelfeldt , as a post-calculator at AG Weser . After the Second World War he was able to work as a teacher again. He became headmaster, 1950 gymnastics council and 1952 regional gymnastics council in the education sector.

Drees was married. He and his wife were buried in the Bremen- Huckelriede cemetery.

politics

In 1922/23 Drees became a member of the SPD in Bremen . From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship. In the 1920s / 30s he was a leading member of the social democratically oriented, non-partisan Reichsbanner . In April 1931 he took over the management of the Bremen district. His relationship with the Bremen police command was marked by conflicts. In 1933 the National Socialists imprisoned him in the Mißler concentration camp . Drees was badly mistreated. When he and Alfred Faust (SPD) were beaten up again during a nightly beating in the boiler room of the concentration camp, Albert Oltmanns (KPD) organized a hunger strike.

Sports official

From 1920 to 1923 Drees was chairman of the Volksbund for Sport and Body Care Bremen . From 1925 to 1933 he worked as the national youth leader of the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (ATSB). From 1933 to 1945, during the Nazi era , he was not allowed to work as a sports official.

From 1946 to 1966 he was chairman (later president) of the Bremen sports association, which he founded and which soon became the state sports association of Bremen . His successor in this office was Fritz Piaskowski . In 1947 he was also temporarily the 2nd chairman of the Lower Saxony State Sports Association . From 1950 to 1960 he took on the role of Vice President of the German Sports Confederation .

Honors

literature

  • Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .
  • Karl Marten Barfuß, Hartmut Müller, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1945 to 2005. Volume 1: 1945–1969 . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-575-1 .
  • Ulrich Schröder: "We are not a warrior club , but we are not a debating club either." The Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Bremen and the surrounding area 1924-1933. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Vol. 93 (2014), pp. 121–156.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg Wollenberg: The concentration camp Bremen-Mißler . Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www-user.uni-bremen.de
  2. ^ Arnd Krüger : Sport and Politics, From the gymnastics father Jahn to the state amateur. Hanover: Torchbearers 1975
personal data
SURNAME Drees, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drees, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, politician and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Burhave
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1968
Place of death Bremen