Reinhard Strecker (politician)

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Heinrich Wilhelm Reinhard Strecker (born January 22, 1876 in Berlin ; † July 26, 1951 in Gießen ) was a German philosopher , educator and politician .

Life

Strecker was the son of a major and his wife Caroline, née Hattendorf. His first marriage was in 1904 with Clothilde Hainer. From this marriage the daughter Marie, born on September 29 of the same year, emerged. After Clothilde's death, Strecker married Emilie Magdalena Habler on May 30, 1947.

Strecker studied geography , German literature and history at the universities in Greifswald , Heidelberg and Leipzig . He successfully completed his studies in his hometown in 1901 with the dissertation The aesthetic pleasure based on aesthetic apperception . Then Strecker got a job as a teacher at various grammar schools in Hesse and finally advanced to the position of director of the secondary girls' school in Friedberg . In the middle of the First World War , Strecker was able to complete his habilitation in Gießen in 1917 with a thesis on Fichte's state philosophy . His career took him to the University of Jena as an honorary professor in 1923 when he was appointed to the secondary school board . In 1930 he received a teaching position for natural philosophy at the forestry college in Eberswalde and was dismissed in 1933 for political reasons. In 1945 he became city school councilor and honorary professor for education in Leipzig and came to West Germany shortly afterwards with the help of the Americans. In 1946, Strecker was appointed honorary professor for state philosophy at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen . He received a remunerated teaching position for philosophy and education, which was terminated after the summer semester of 1948 for financial reasons and in view of his age. Since 1947, Strecker was also director of the newly founded Gießen adult education center. Strecker was a member of the German Peace Society and the Good Templar Order .

Political career

Politically interested and left-wing liberal active from his youth, Strecker had been a member and functionary of the Progressive People's Party (FVP) since 1910 . After the First World War he was one of the founding members of the German Democratic Party (DDP) in Hesse and was elected to the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse for this party in 1919 . In the following year he was appointed minister of culture in the Ulrich II cabinet . Both predecessor and successor in this office was Otto Urstadt . He held this office from February 22, 1919 to October 1, 1921. Strecker lost his office because at the end of 1921 he left his party to protest against the policy of Reichswehr Minister Otto Geßler (also DDP) and switched to the SPD . He resigned his parliamentary mandate. From 1924, Strecker was again a member of the state parliament for the SPD, from which he finally resigned on February 22, 1925. Adam Lang moved up for him in the state parliament. As a member of the Reichsrat , he took part in the drafting of the Weimar Constitution in 1919 . He fought anti-Semitism , was a member of the German Peace Society and head of the Order of Good Templars in Germany. In 1925, Strecker settled in Berlin in order to take account of his increased political commitment. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he was removed from his offices and honorary positions. Nevertheless, in November 1933, he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . With his former Hessian ministerial colleague Wilhelm Leuschner and others, he took part in preparations for the overthrow of Hitler at a cautious distance in 1944. As a member of the Nauheimer Kreis , which advocated a neutral Germany, he was expelled from the SPD.

Honors

A street in Rüsselsheim am Main and a path in Gießen-Wieseck are named after Reinhard Strecker .

Works

  • The aesthetic enjoyment based on the aesthetic apperception. Kindt, Giessen 1901.
  • Contributions to the history of the city of Oppenheim. Traumüller, Oppenheim 1905.
  • The moral phrase in liberalism. A reply. Roether, Darmstadt 1907.
  • Religion and Politics in Goethe. Roth, Giessen 1908.
  • Sunday reflections on Schiller's poems. Roth, Giessen 1908.
  • God and the Church (= Bremen pamphlets from the spiritual battle of the present , Volume 2). Concordia, Berlin 1908.
  • Democracy and socialism. An argument with Magnus Biermer. Roether, Darmstadt 1908.
  • Kant's ethics. Roth, Giessen 1909.
  • The duty to know. New territory, Berlin 1928.
  • Pedagogy and Politics. Zahnwetzer, Kassel 1947.

literature

  • Ulrich Peter: Reinhard Strecker (1876–1954). A religious socialist in “godless” Leipzig. In: Michael Rudloff, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): “Such pests also exist in Leipzig”. Social Democrats and the SED. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-631-47385-0 , pp. 160-173.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 251.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Peter: Reinhard Strecker (1876–1954). A religious socialist in “godless” Leipzig. In: Michael Rudloff, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): “Such pests also exist in Leipzig”. Social Democrats and the SED. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-631-47385-0 , p. 162.
personal data
SURNAME Strecker, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strecker, Heinrich Wilhelm Reinhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1951
Place of death to water