Paul Hermann August Oestreich (30 March 1878 – 28 February 1959) was a German

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and

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Early life

Oestreich was born in Kolberg, within the

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Province of Pomerania. He studied

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, and new languages at the universities of

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and

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from 1896 to 1900.

Career

In Berlin-Schöneberg, Oestreich was a teacher from 1901 and a

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from 1905. He joined the

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and the Liberals Association to

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, which he represented 1906–08 in the

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, then the Democratic Union. He became a member of the "Federal New Fatherland", and later, in 1921–26, he was a board member of the "German Peace Society". From 1918 till 1931 he was a member of the

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. In 1919, Oestreich founded the ''Bund Entschiedener Schulreformer'' (BESch) and led it until 1933. After the Second World War, Oestirch joined the

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and later the

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. From 1945-1949, Oestreich was ''Hauptschulrat'' in

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. From 1949 to 1950 he worked in the ''Hauptschulamt'' of the Magistrat of Groß-Berlin Dezernent for higher education. In 1949 he became a head of the 29 higher schools in east Berlin. In autumn of 1954 he received the award "Verdienter Lehrer des Volkes" by the Soviet Council of Ministers. Paul-Oestreich-Straße is a street named after Oestreich in Berlin-Weißensee.

Works

* An editor of the ''Neue Erziehung'' (bulletin of the ''Bund Entschiedener Schulreformer'') * ''Die Produktionsschule'', 1920 * ''Die Einheitsschule als Schule der Menschenbildung'', 1920; * ''Die elastische Einheitsschule'', 1921 * ''Die Produktionsschule als Nothaus und Neubau'', 1924; * ''Der neue Lehrer'', 1926 (with O. Tacke); * ''Erziehung zur Liebe'', 1930 (with E. Dehmel); * ''Der Einbruch der Technik in die Pädagogik'', 1930; * ''Hat dieser Wettbewerb einen Sinn'', 1931 (with A. Horschitz) * ''Die Technik als Luzifer der Pädagogik'', 1947 * ''Die Schule zur Volkskultur,'' 1947Oestreich, Paul
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