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

Germany

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 educator.

Oestreich was born in Kolberg, within the German Empire

German Empire

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's Prussian

Kingdom of Prussia

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 Province of Pomerania. He studied mathematics

Mathematics

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, philosophy

Philosophy

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, pedagogy

Pedagogy

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, and new languages at the universities of Berlin and Greifswald from 1896-1900. In Berlin-Schöneberg, Oestreich was a teacher from 1901 and a Studienrat from 1905.

In 1919, Oestreich founded the Bund entschiedener Schulreformer and led it until 1933. From 1945-1949, Oestreich was Hauptschulrat in Berlin-Zehlendorf. From 1949 to 1950 he worked in the Hauptschulamt of the Magistrat of Groß-Berlin Dezernent for higher education.

Paul-Oestreich-Straße is a street named after Oestreich in Berlin-Weißensee

Berlin-Weißensee

Weissensee is a locality in the borough of Pankow in Berlin, Germany, named for the small lake Weißer See within it. Before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, Weissensee was a borough in its own right, consisting of the localities of Weissensee, Heinersdorf, Blankenburg, Karow and...

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Literary works

• An editor of the "Neue Erziehung" (bulletin of the Bund entschiedener Schulreformer)
• Die Produktionsschule, 1920
• Die elastische Einheitsschule, 1921
• Die Technik als Luzifer der Pädagogik, 1947
• Die Schule zur Volkskultur, 1947

External links

• Paul-Oestreich-Straße