Rudolph Strauss

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Rudolph Strauss (born August 28, 1904 in Niederwiesa ; † May 27, 1987 in Berlin ) was a German educator and archivist .

Life

Strauss came from a large family. From 1918 to 1925 he attended the teachers' seminar in Frankenberg / Sa. He then worked as a teacher at several auxiliary and elementary schools. In 1929 he came to Chemnitz . In 1933 he was imprisoned in Sachsenburg concentration camp for some time . After the Second World War, Strauss worked as a member of the SED to train new teachers and became director of the Brühlschule in Chemnitz. Due to a hearing impairment, he was forced to change jobs. In 1947, despite the lack of specialist training, he took over the management of the Chemnitz City Archives .

On his 66th birthday in 1970, Karl Czok awarded him an honorary doctorate from the Karl Marx University of Leipzig . Czok confirmed that the honoree “is filled with passionate support for the cause of the revolutionary working class and its party, which has been researching its history in one of the most traditional centers of the German labor movement for a lifetime. With his life's work ”,“ the city archivist of Karl-Marx-Stadt has become a researcher who is known in the circles of historians and archivists far beyond the borders of the GDR ” .

In 1960 he was awarded by the German Academy " in recognition of his services to researching the situation and the movement of the Chemnitz workers in the first half of the 19th century, with which he provided a model for similar investigations into other centers of the labor movement " awarded the Leibniz Medal of Science in Berlin . Further honors were the Agricola Award in 1955, the Johannes R. Becher Medal in silver and the Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal .

Because his hearing became so bad that he could no longer follow conversations, he retired. His successor as director of the city archive was Helmut Bräuer .

literature

Works (selection)

  • The Chemnitz workers' movement under the Socialist Law , Berlin: Verl. Tribüne 1954
  • * (with Siegfried Becker and Hans-Joachim Schröter ): The Immediate Effects of the Great October Socialist Revolution on the Labor Movement in Chemnitz , Karl-Marx-Stadt 1971 (contributions to the local history of Karl-Marx-Stadt; 18)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Fritzsche : He exposes the sources! City archivist Dr. hc Rudolph Strauss, Karl-Marx-Stadt . In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge 16 (1971) H. 10, S. 208
  2. ↑ Helmut Bräuer, Gabriele Viertel: On the 100th birthday of the city archives director Rudolph Strauss. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 51 (2005) 1, p. 48
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederwiesa
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1987
Place of death Berlin