Oskar Gründler

Friedrich Louis Oskar Gründler (born September 27, 1876 in Gebesee , † July 30, 1947 in Gotha ) was a German teacher and politician ( DDP ).

Life

He was born the son of a farmer and grew up in Gebesee. After school he attended the "Staatliche preparandenanstalt" in Wandersleben from 1890 and from 1893 he attended the "royal Prussian teacher training college" in Erfurt , which he completed in 1896 with the first teacher examination. His first teaching position was at the elementary school in Grüningen . On October 1, 1901, he began teaching German and history at the Löfflerschuleto teach in Gotha. His almost 45-year teaching career was only interrupted by his military service in the First World War (1914-18). As a dialect and local history researcher, he wrote numerous articles as well as educational essays for the teacher's newspaper and poems. He also played the violin and piano and composed.

Politically, he was initially involved in the national-liberal state association and from 1918 in the German Democratic Party . From 1923 to 1932 he was the only member of the Gotha City Council. He wrote about it himself: "I had a difficult position in the city council, I tipped the scales, but my name was given with respect in Gotha."

In the time of National Socialism , criminal proceedings against him were initiated in 1937 after he was publicly critical of the collection of the Winterhilfswerk , the renaming of the Gotha "Gartenstraße" to "Straße der SA", and the demand for a subsequent " Aryan certificate " for his 1933 with only The woman who died 57 years ago had expressed. In 1939 he married a second time.

After the end of the war he was with Hermann Henselmann , Hugo Meister and Günther Gottschalk in the anti-fascist committee that was formed on May 3, 1945 in Gotha. His main merits lay in the rebuilding of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Gotha school system, for which he immediately campaigned personally with the Americans and then with the Russians. On October 1, 1945, he was appointed by the President of Thuringia, Dr. Rudolf Paul , appointed provisional school councilor. In 1947 he suffered a stroke on a business trip on his bicycle and died as a result in the Gotha hospital.

Works

• The Thuringian Waidbau and its final end , Thüringer Monatsblätter, Weimar 1907
• Gebesee - From the city's past , Gotha 1930

Honors

The Oskar-Gründler-Straße in Gotha as well as the Oskar-Gründler-Straße in Gebesee and the Oskar-Gründler-Gymnasium in Gebesee were named after him.

literature

• Matthias Wenzel: He was an upright democrat all his life in: "Gothaer Allgemeine" from July 26, 1997

Web links

• Literature by and about Oskar Gründler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website Oskar-Gründler-Gymnasium Gebesee