Rudolf Krüger (politician, 1898)

Rudolf Georg Karl Krüger (born January 25, 1898 in Hagenow , † July 30, 1968 in Bensberg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and civil servant. From 1932 to 1933 he was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Live and act

Rudolf Krüger was the son of a businessman. First he attended the elementary and city school in his native Hagenow in Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Then he continued his education at the secondary schools in Ludwigslust and Schwerin and obtained his Abitur at Easter 1918. He began studying German, history and philosophy at the University of Rostock and moved to the University of Heidelberg in the summer semester of 1919 . In April 1921 he returned to the University of Rostock, but had to break off his studies in February 1922 for financial reasons and instead worked as a tutor in Moltenow near Schwerin. Two years later he passed the examination to become a high school teacher for German and English. He then worked as a teacher at the elementary school in Neustadt-Glewe and from 1924 to 1932 at the middle school in Goldberg .

In Goldberg, Krüger was involved in local politics as a city ​​councilor . On January 1, 1931, he joined the NSDAP . Shortly afterwards he also joined the Nazi teachers' association and the SA . From April 1931 to August 1932 he headed the local branch of the NSDAP and was the leader of the SA storm in Goldberg. In June 1932 he became a member of the seventh parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . On July 13, 1932, he was elected President of the State Parliament. He received 35 of the 57 votes cast (the NSDAP had 30 seats), his opponent Willi Schröder (KPD) received three votes. In the eighth state parliament, Krüger was confirmed as president on June 1, 1933.

In August 1932, Krüger was appointed to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry for Education, Art, Spiritual and Medical Affairs and appointed to the state school board . He thus succeeded Rudolf Puls (SPD). In this function, Krüger was involved in drafting a new law on the development and management of rural continuing education schools. In April 1933 he was appointed to the government council . He worked as a consultant for personnel issues in the ministry, which meant that he was responsible for around 3000 teachers in Mecklenburg.

In 1933 Krüger published together with the Dassower Rector Otto Lemke the textbook "German Farming", which was officially introduced in Mecklenburg and reprinted several times. The Reich Office for the Promotion of German Literature praised the textbook as one of the best of its kind, which received its “lasting value” through “numerous passages from the Fuehrer's works and speeches”.

From 1933 Krüger sat on the program advisory board of the Norddeutsche Rundfunk AG in Hamburg . In 1934 he was appointed consultant and head of Department VIII in the teaching department of the Mecklenburg State Ministry. In this function he was responsible for legislation in vocational, technical, advanced training and trade schools as well as for broadcasting. In 1936 he was promoted to the Upper Government Council . From June 1936 to February 1943, Krüger was head of the Office for Educators in the Mecklenburg Gauleitung and Gauwalter of the NS teachers' association in Mecklenburg. In 1937 he resigned from the Protestant church.

With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Krüger volunteered for the Wehrmacht , but instead only served a three-month Homeland War deployment in a motor vehicle replacement company. From February 1940 to September 1941 he headed the culture department at the government of the Generalgouvernement in Warsaw . Back in Germany, he initially represented Wilhelm Bergholter as acting head of the science, education and popular education department of the Mecklenburg State Ministry. From May 25, 1943 to May 1, 1945 he regularly took over this office. In February 1943 he was appointed Ministerialrat and curator of the University of Rostock . He was also active in Mecklenburg as a school representative for the extended Kinderlandverschickung and as a supervisor of teacher training institutes and examination boards.

On May 15, 1945, Krüger took up the post of head of the science, education and popular education department again, but was already on leave on June 1 by order of the Allied military government by State Minister Friedrich Stratmann and on June 29, 1945 by Hanns Jess from Mecklenburg State service dismissed. Krüger died at the age of 70 in Bensberg near Cologne.

Fonts

• with Otto Lemke: Deutsches Bauerntum: a book for the Mecklenburg rural youth. Beltz, Langensalza 1933.
• with Otto Burmeister , Adolf Plagemann: Our primer. Beltz, Langensalza 1936.
• with Otto Burmeister, Adolf Plagemann: The holistic method: methodical introduction to 'Our Primer'. Beltz, Langensalza 1936.

literature

• Krüger, Rudolf In: Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. A biographical lexicon. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 , pp. 180-182.

Web links

• Literature about Rudolf Krüger (politician, 1898) in the state bibliography MV
• Rudolf Krüger in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
3. ↑ Entry on de-registration on February 22, 1922
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Heipertz, Otto In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 180.
5. ↑ Heipertz, Otto In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 181.
6. ^ Entry on Rudolf Krüger in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
7. ↑ ^{a b} Heipertz, Otto In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 182.