Adolf Heitmann (writer)

Adolf Heitmann

Adolf Heitmann (born September 12, 1858 in Diesdorf , † December 16, 1946 in Schleibnitz ) was a German educator and writer.

Life

Heitmann was born the son of a farmer. After attending elementary school in his birthplace, he was trained at a teachers' college from 1876 to 1878 . In 1878 he started his first job as a teacher in Pöhlde . Then he became a teacher at the Salbker School . He stayed in Salbke until he became a teacher in Altenweddingen in 1895 .

In 1895 he published his work Legacies of a Poor Girl under the pseudonym Ernst Volksmann . Confessions of a miner's daughter . The book contains 252 letters from Marie Müller, an educated miner's daughter, to her fiancé, the editor. The book was a success and received positive reviews from critics. It illuminates the social conditions of the time in the 1880s and deals with the position of women and the life of servants . In 1910 he published a second edition called the People's Edition, in which he confessed his real name.

In 1912 he was to be transferred to Roklum near Halberstadt , which, due to his reputation, led to opposition and a mass petition , after which the transfer did not take place. In 1914 he was transferred to nearby Schleibnitz. In 1923 he retired. He died in Schleibnitz in 1946.

Works

• (Editor) Legacies of a Poor Girl. Confessions of a miner's daughter , 1895

literature

• Heinz Nowak : Heitmann, Adolf. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 284.
• Theobald Ziegler, review of the first edition of "Legacies of a poor girl. Confessions of a miner's daughter" in Die Frau , Berlin 1895/96