Oskar Karstedt

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Oskar Karstedt (1941)

Oskar Karstedt , complete Franz Oskar Karstedt (born March 10, 1884 in Lübeck , † autumn 1945 in the Sachsenhausen special camp ) was a German geographer, colonial official and ministerial official.

Life

Oskar Karstedt was a son of the captain and chairman of the Schiffergesellschaft in Lübeck Peter Carl Hinrich Karstedt († 1916). He attended the secondary school branch of the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school in Easter 1902 and studied natural sciences , geography and economics at the universities of Leipzig , Helsinki and Berlin . In 1905 he was in Leipzig with a dissertation on the southern Finland archipelago Dr. phil. PhD.

He entered the colonial service of the German Empire and went to German East Africa , where he mainly worked as a district office secretary in Dar es Salaam. Due to illness, he returned to Germany in autumn 1913 and was retired. He then worked as a journalist for the Deutsche Kolonialzeitung of the German Colonial Society and as an author.

In 1918 he became a consultant in the Reich Committee for the Welfare of War Disabled Persons and in 1919 a councilor. From 1920 he was a Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Labor . In the 1920s he was with Siddy Wronsky co-editor of the German magazine for welfare and the series of publications Die Wohlfahrtspflege in individual presentations . In 1932 he was part-time managing director of the Hindenburg donation .

In 1933/34, his area of ​​responsibility included the processing of objections from doctors who lost their health insurance license for political or racial reasons in the course of the National Socialist takeover . In his work and his report published in 1934 Karstedt strictly followed the ordinance and accepted numerous complaints. The review of the exclusion practice by the Reich Ministry of Labor, which was strictly based on the wording of the ordinance, caused displeasure on the part of the party and the National Socialist doctors' leadership. In particular the Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner expressed his displeasure with Karstedt's attitude. During this time, those affected saw him as “highly decent people”.

In 1937 Karstedt held the funeral speech for Hans von Ramsay in the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Around 1943 Karstedt was head of the working group on international labor and social policy in the Reich Ministry of Labor and head of the specialist group on colonial social policy in the colonial science department of the Reich Research Council . At the same time, he gave lectures and exercises on colonial social policy at the foreign studies faculty of the University of Berlin.

At the end of the war in 1945 he was captured by Soviet troops and taken to special camp No. 7 (Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen), where he died in autumn.

Awards

Fonts

  • The southern Finnish skär coast from Wiborg to Hangö: a contribution to the geography of the Baltic coasts. Schmidt, Lübeck 1906. (also Leipzig, phil. Diss., 1906)
  • Contributions to the practice of indigenous justice in German East Africa. German East African Newspaper, Dar es Salaam [1912].
  • with Maurice Smethurst Evans and H. Hardy: The Settlement of Europeans in the Tropics. Part 3: Natal, Rhodesia, British East Africa. (= Publications of the Verein für Socialpolitik: SVS / Society for Economic and Social Sciences). Duncker & Humblot, Munich et al. 1913.
  • German East Africa and its Neighboring Areas: A Handbook for Travelers. Reimer, Berlin 1914.
  • German East Africa 1914: Memorandum. JJ Weber, Leipzig (1914).
  • Germany's colonial misery. Colonial economy Committee, Berlin 1917.
  • Colonial Peace Goals. Duncker, Weimar 1917.
  • What was German colonial possession like to us? What does he have to become to us? German Colonial Society, Berlin 1918.
  • with Heinrich Rabelin: The public small pensioner welfare: with special consideration of the imperial measures . Heymann, Berlin 1923.
  • as Ed .: Concise Dictionary of Welfare Care. Heymann, Berlin 1924.
  • with Otto Martens: Africa: a handbook for business and travel. Edited at the suggestion of the German Africa Lines. Reimer, Vohsen, Berlin 1930.
2nd Edition. 1931; 3. Edition. 2 volumes, Reimer; Andrews & Steiner, Berlin 1936, 4th edition. 1938
English edition: The African Handbook and traveler's guide. G. Allen & Unwin, London 1932,
2nd edition: The African Handbook; A guide to West, South and East Africa. Allen & Unwin, London 1938
  • International fight against unemployment by opening up overseas territories: At the same time a contribution to the problem of increasing world trade. Hobbing, Berlin 1931.
  • as editor: Erich Marcks, Ernst von Eisenhart Rothe: Paul von Hindenburg as a person, statesman, general. Stollberg, Berlin [1932]
  • Hermann v. Wissmann: the man of the twelve-fold mind. (= Germany's colonial heroes). Stollberg, Berlin 1933. (2nd edition. 1938)
  • The white struggle for Africa.
Volume 1: England's African Empire. Stollberg, Berlin 1937
Volume 2: Germany in Africa: 30 years of German colonial work. Stollberg, Berlin 1938
  • Africa as a common socio-political task for Europe. Reale Accademia d'Italia, Rome 1938.
  • This is how the empire drives social policy. Stollberg, Berlin 1940.
  • with Peter von Werder: The African worker question. (= Africa. Handbook of practical colonial studies 18). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1941.
  • Problems of African Native Politics. (= Colonial Scientific Research: Results and Problems). Mittler, Berlin 1942.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) (digitized version) , p. 95, No. 172
  2. ^ Eckhart G. Franz, Peter Geissler: German East Africa Archive. Inventory of the "German Records" department in the National Archives of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dar-es-Salaam. I: Introduction, Central Administration. Archive School Marburg, Marburg 1973, p. 87 .
  3. ^ Leonie Wagner, Cornelia Wenzel: Women's movements and social work. In: Leonie Wagner (Ed.): Social work and social movements. Springer, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-91901-0 , p. 44.
  4. ↑ The implementation of the Aryan and Communist legislation by the health insurance doctors, dentists, etc. In: Reichsarbeitsblatt. 2 (non-official part, 1934), pp. 179–183, also: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. 64, pp. 591-596 (1934).
  5. ↑ 80 years ago: Exclusion of Jewish doctors from the medical practice. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . 2013.
  6. ↑ Michael H. Kater: Doctors under Hitler. UNC Press Books, Chapel Hill 2005, ISBN 0-8078-7604-6 , p. 138.
  7. ↑ Dr. Georg Jaffé, quoted by Stephan Leibfried: Stations of the defense: professional bans for doctors in the German Reich. 1982, p. 5; see also Fritz Goldschmidt : My work in representing the interests of Jewish doctors in Germany since July 1933. University of Bremen, 1979, pp. 22–24, 30–36, 44–61, 124ff.
  8. ^ Stephan Leibfried: stations of the defense: professional bans for doctors in the German Reich. 1982, p. 27 note 10.
personal data
SURNAME Karstedt, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karstedt, Franz Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer, colonial official and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Sachsenhausen special camp