Gerhard Gerlich
Gerhard Gerlich | |
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| File:Dr. G. Gerlich.JPG Gerhard Gerlich pictured in 1958. | |
| Member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein | |
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| Born | 9 September 1911 Opava, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 27 December 1962 (aged 51) Neumünster, West Germany |
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| Spouse(s) | Emma Strilek |
| Children | 4 |
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Gerhard Gerlich (9 September 1911 – 27 December 1962) was a German pedagogue and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician.
Education
After completing his Abitur, he studied history and geography in Prague, receiving his PhD from Charles University for his thesis Die Politik Korinths bis zum peloponnesischen Krieg (The Politics of Corinth Before the Peloponnesian War). Afterwards he taught at schools for ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia while also presiding as a member of the German Educational Authority of Bohemia in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in Prague. He also was a lecturer at the Pedagogical Academy in Prague.
Work Under the Nazi Regime
Under the Nazi Regime, Gerlich was a member of the NSDAP.[1] Historians Uwe Danker and Lehmann-Himmel characterise him and his conduct during this time as "instrumental / career-oriented".[2] He joined the SS on 1 July 1938, eventually being put into military service on the Eastern Front where he achieved the rank of lieutenant. Towards the end of the war he was taken as a prisoner of war by the Soviet Union, from which he was released in 1947.
After the War
After being released by the Soviets, he settled in Neumünster, where he continued to work in education, first as a teacher in a Volksschule, and then eventually as a senior professor at a Gymnasium. During the denazification process he hid his SS membership.[3]
Gerlich also became a member and representative of the CDU, acting as a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein for the CDU from 1950 until his death in 1962, as well as a member of the Landesvorstand of Schleswig-Holstein. He achieved a number of notable positions in the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag, such as deputy minister of the Landtag Committee for German Expellees, deputy minister of the CDU, deputy of the Ministry of Education, and leader of the Finance Committee.
| Position | From | Until |
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| Member of the Landtag | 7 August 1950 | 27 December 1962 |
| Deputy of Education | 6 June 1955 | 27 December 1962 |
| Deputy of the Landtag Committee for German Expellees | 11 October 1954 | 22 January 1958 |
| Deputy of the CDU | 27 October 1958 | 26 October 1962 |
| Leader of the Finance Committee | 29 October 1962 | 27 December 1962 |
In 1948 he founded the "Association for Sudeten Germans" (German: Hilfsgemeinschaft der Sudetendeutschen, lit. 'Mutual aid association of Sudeten Germans') with former Nazi politician Josef Domabyl.[4] He also held the office of Vice-President in the Schleswig-Holstein chapter of the Society of German Philologists and deputy leader of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft in Schleswig-Holstein.
Family
Gerlich married Emma Strilek and had 4 children, Gerhild (born 13 April 1941), Gerhard (born 6 April 1942), Gerburg (born 30 July 1943) and Gerlinde (10 September 1944 - 9 September 1945). He also had a brother, Walter Richard Gerlich.
Distinctions
The "Dr.-Gerlich-Schule“ in Trappenkamp was named after him on 12 March 1969.[5] After a report in 2015 uncovered his membership in the SS, the school's conference proposed to rename the school.[6] In January of 2017, the name was changed to the "Grundschule Trappenkamp mit Förderzentrumsteil“.[7]
Works
- Die Politik Korinths bis zum peloponnesischen Krieg. Prag 1935 (Diss. phil.)
Literature
- Klaus Deneke (2007), Materialien zur Person von Dr. Gerhard Gerlich, zur Dr.-Gerlich-Schule Trappenkamp und zur Geschichte der Gemeinden Trappenkamp und Bornhöved (in German), Kiel: Klaus Deneke, 987041266CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- Christina Schubert: Die Abgeordneten des Schleswig-Holsteinschen Landtags nach 1945. In: Sönke Zankel (Hrsg.): Skandale in Schleswig-Holstein. Beiträge zum Geschichtswettbewerb des Bundespräsidenten. Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 2012, ISBN 978-3-88312-419-3, S. 90.
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- Gerhard Gerlich im Landtagsinformationssystem Schleswig-Holstein
- Nachruf auf Gerhard Gerlich (Union in Deutschland. Informationsdienst. 17 Jg. Nr. 1, Bonn 4. Juli 1963, S. 8)
External Links
- ↑ Landtagsdrucksache 18-4464, S. 120, abgerufen am 24. März 2021.
- ↑ Landtagsdrucksache 18-4464, S. 179, abgerufen am 24. März 2021.
- ↑ Trappenkamp: Wird Schule umbenannt? In: Lübecker Nachrichten. 16. Juli 2016, S. 17.
- ↑ Tobias Weger: „Volkstumskampf“ ohne Ende? Sudetendeutsche Organisationen 1945–1955. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008, S. 132 (Diss. Uni. Oldenburg 2005)
- ↑ Geschichte der Dr.-Gerlich Schule online
- ↑ Trappenkamp: Wird Schule umbenannt? In: Lübecker Nachrichten. 16. Juli 2016, S. 17.
- ↑ Es ist amtlich: Name der Dr.-Gerlich-Schule ist gelöscht. LN-Online. 12. November 2016, abgerufen am 1. März 2021.
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