Paul Oestreich

Paul Hermann August Oestreich (30 March 1878 – 28 February 1959) was a German educator.
Oestreich was born in Kolberg, within the German Empire's Prussian Province of Pomerania. He studied mathematics, philosophy, pedagogy, 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 (BESch) 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.

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