Carl Strehl

Carl Strehl ( born July 27, 1886 in Berlin, † August 18, 1971 in Marburg) was co-founder and director of the German Institute for the Blind, as well as Honorary Professor of Blind at the Philipps University in Marburg.

Life and career

Carl Strehl was the third of four children of the royal Prussian first fire inspector to Berlin and lecturer, born of fire engineering at the Technical College of Charlottenburg Carl Strehl and his wife Helene born Keilmann.

Due to the father's occupation as a civil servant of the Prussian state, the family had to move frequently, so Strehl attended schools in Berlin -Altona, Gera, Insterburg, Pomerania and Berlin light field. When Carl Strehl was 8 years old, his father died and his mother sent him to the military school. These cadets training, he broke the end of 1900, went with 14 1/2 years at sea, and continued the next 5 years as a cabin boy or sailor on German, British and American ships.

Carl Strehl blind in December 1907 in an accident at a chemical plant in New York in 1908 and returned back to Insterburg. For 1 1/2 years, he attended the Johanneum in Hamburg. After passing the matriculation examination in 1913, he studied at the University of Marburg philology and economics. 1915 have been set up courses for War Blind Blind techniques for learning by the then director of the Marburg University Eye Clinic Alfred Bielschowsky; he commissioned Strehl with the line. Together they founded the Association of blind academics in Germany ( today German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired Students and Professionals ), who saw to it that in 1916 the German Institute for the Blind was founded in Marburg; Bielschowsky became its honorary chairman, Strehl her counsel. - 1921 was the PhD. with a thesis on the war with the Blind. An excerpt from the social policy.

Strehl 1927 was appointed director of the Institute for the Blind; This post he held until retirement.

From 1931 he took teaching positions at the University of Blind and the Blind. In 1940 he was appointed Honorary Professor of blind persons, as Subsection of Ophthalmology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Marburg.

Honors

  • Dr. hc. Philipps- University of Marburg (1961 ),
  • Carriers of the Medal of Merit of the city of Marburg (1966 ),
  • Knight of the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany ( 1966).
  • The Training Center of the Institute for the Blind in Marburg named Carl- Strehl School.
  • In Marburg, there is a Carl- Strehl road.
  • The German Institute for the Blind and the German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired Students and Professionals jointly confer the Carl- Strehl badge.

Others

Carl Strehl was also active in local politics; he ran in April 1933 on an independent civil list for the Marburg City Council. Since 1923 he was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Marcus Aurelius to the blazing star in Marburg.

Writings (selection )

  • The Institute for the Blind in Marburg -Lahn. Their creation and development 1916 - 1958 Festschrift for the dedication of the Carl- Strehl School. Marburg 1958.
  • Gedenkschrift 25 years Blindenstudienanstalt Marburg ( Lahn): from its foundation to the present day. Edited by Carl Strehl. Marburg: Institute for the Blind, 1942.
  • Vocational, vocational and post-exposure care for blind and visually impaired. A reference work for government agencies, caregivers, physicians, educators, blind people and their families. Leipzig: Thieme, 1939.
  • The war with the Blind of the Marburg -blind study Institution of 1915 - 1932 Marburg 1932..
  • The higher education of the blind and their uses. [ Berlin] 1931.
  • The war with the Blind. An excerpt from the social policy. Berlin: Springer, 1922.
  • The care for the blind academics. Marburg: Association of the Blind academics in Germany [about 1918 ].

Swell

  • Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis. Volume 2: 1911-1971. Rev. by Inge Auerbach. Marburg 1979, pp. 396f.
  • Freemasonry
  • Ludwig, Hans Carl Strehl - A life in the service of the blind. Bad Godesberg in 1969.
  • Mohammad Reza Malmanesh: Blind under the swastika: a study of the German Institute for the Blind Association Marburg and the association of the blind academics eV Germany under fascism, Marburg, Ger. Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired Students and Professionals, DVBS, 2002
  • Master, John -Jürgen: dealing with the past - a dark chapter in the history of the DVBS and the German Institute for the Blind, in: horus 4/2003
  • Scholler, Heinrich: Professor Carl Strehl and his international work in the field of higher education Blind in: 200 years of Blind Education in Germany ( 1806-2006 ). Würzburg: edition Bentheim 2006
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