Paul Hermann August Oestreich (30 March 1878 – 28 February 1959) was a German educator and pedagogue.
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 to 1900.
[1] In 1919, Oestreich founded the Bund Entschiedener Schulreformer (BESch) and led it until 1933.
In autumn of 1954 he received the award "Verdienter Lehrer des Volkes" by the Soviet Council of Ministers.