Otto Boelitz

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Otto Boelitz (born April 18, 1876 in Wesel , † December 29, 1951 in Düsseldorf ) was a German educator and politician ( DVP , later CDU ).

Life and work

Otto Boelitz came from a pastor family - his father was Paul Boelitz - with seven siblings; his brother was the later poet and writer Martin Boelitz . After graduation in 1896 studied Otto Boelitz theology and philosophy in Berlin , Halle (Saale) and Bonn , graduated as Dr. phil. and then entered the higher education service. He had been a teacher at a secondary school in Bochum from 1904 , taught at the German secondary school in Brussels from 1905 and became director of the German secondary school in Barcelona, which was qualified for the military in 1909 . From 1915 to 1921 he was rector of theArchigymnasiums Soest .

Boelitz was a member of the Reich School Conference and since 1926 president of the Bühnenvolkbund. In 1927 he spent a long time in South America. Boelitz was appointed director of the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) in Berlin in 1930, but had to resign on March 31, 1934 after the National Socialist “takeover” of power. In 1945 he was a co-founder of the daily newspaper Westfalenpost .

politics

In 1918 Boelitz was elected to the board of the citizens' committee and chairman of the DVP in Soest. Boelitz was a member of the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly from 1919 to 1921 , then belonged to the Prussian State Parliament until 1932 , where he was the cultural-political spokesman for the DVP parliamentary group. From November 17, 1921 to January 6, 1925, he was the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and Education in the state government led by Prime Minister Otto Braun . Nevertheless, he was one of the enemies of the republic. After the Second World War , he helped found the CDU in Westphalia .

See also

Fonts

  • Causality and Necessity in Émile Boutroux's Doctrine of Contingency: a Contribution to the History of Latest French Philosophy. Leipzig 1907
  • The doctrine of chance at Émile Boutroux: a contribution to the history of the latest French philosophy. Leipzig 1907
  • Prussia's dismemberment - Germany's downfall . 2nd edition, Berlin 1919
  • Prussia and the unified state . Berlin 1920
  • The cultural policy in the program of the German People's Party . Berlin 1919
  • Dismantling and expansion of our education system? , Leipzig 1924
  • The structure of the Prussian education system after the state upheaval . Leipzig 1925
  • The movements in German educational life and the German educational unit . Leipzig 1926
  • The character of the high school . Leipzig 1926
  • Border and Abroad Germanism: Its History and Its Meaning. Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1926
  • La instrucción pública alemana después de la guerra .
  • Basic information on the current cultural situation . Berlin 1931
  • The actual intercambio cultural entre Ibero-América y Alemania

literature

  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 .
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 40f.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Agnes Blänsdorf (2004)
personal data
SURNAME Boelitz, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and politician (DVP, CDU), Prussian Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1951
Place of death Dusseldorf