Adolf Meyer (local history researcher)

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Adolf Meyer , also called Adolf Meyer-Immensen (born June 30, 1929 in Erpensen ; † April 5, 2018 ), was a German bookseller , elementary school teacher , school principal and local researcher .

Life

Adolf Meyer was born the son of a village school teacher in Erpensen. After attending school in Erpensen, Wittingen and Uelzen, Adolf Meyer trained as a bookseller in Wittingen, Bad Nauheim and Frankfurt am Main .

In the post-war period Meyer studied from 1952 to 1954, first in Celle at the local teacher training college and at the teacher training college in Osnabrück . During his studies to become a primary and secondary school teacher, he met his future wife Ilse, with whom he also passed the teaching exams.

Also in the 1950s, Meyer's first local history work appeared under the title Contributions to the History of Village Schools in the Wittingen Parish .

On May 18, 1956, Adolf and Ilse Meyer married in the Kreuzkirche in Sehnde .

After working as a teacher at the elementary school in Resse , Adolf Meyer worked from 1956 as a teacher at the elementary school in Immensen , where he also worked as deputy principal from 1962. As a result, he also led teacher training seminars. From 1969 Meyer worked as the main teacher in Immensen and worked there from 1975 until his retirement in 1992 as rector. It was not until he was very old that Meyer wrote a book with numerous illustrations about the time up to the end of the Second World War under the title Eine Dorfkindheit. Erpensen from 1929 to 1945 .

Adolf Meyer wrote numerous publications on the eastern Lüneburg Heath , the Gifhorn district and the Altmark . Up to 2008 he had published 15 books, including the ten-volume Ortschronik Immensen . In addition, he published around 450 articles in the series Der Sachsenspiegel, which appears in Celle . Sheets for history and homeland maintenance as well as around 250 articles in the Heidewanderer published in Uelzen . Meyer also worked as editor of the home calendar published in Celle for the Lüneburg Heath and from 1994 to 2009 for the magazine Lehrter Land & Menschen .

Honors

In 1997, Adolf Meyer was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Fonts (selection)

  • Local history. Sources and representations of the history of Immensens , from volume 10 under the title Ortschronik Immensen , Lehrte-Immensen, [Weidekamp 5]: A. Meyer
    • Vol. 1: Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Immensen parish on April 1, 1976. Sources and representations on the history of the former chapel and today's parish of Immensen , 1976; contents
    • Vol. 2 .: Chronicle of the immense school. Sources and descriptions on the history of the school system in Immensen , 1979; contents
    • Vol. 3: Immense a farming village. Contributions to the history of the old 52 rows. Sources and representations for the history of Immensens , 1981
    • Vol. 4: Immense figures in the 19th century. Structural change in a village. Sources and representations for the history of Immensens , 1984; contents
    • Vol. 5: From the Empire to the Republic. Immensen in the years 1900 - 1932. Sources and representations on the history of Immensens (= Stadtgeschichtliche Hefte der Stadt Lehrte , Vol. 7), 259 pages with illustrations and notes, 1988
    • Vol. 6: Immense people in ancient times. Sources and representations on the history of Immensens (= Stadtgeschichtliche Hefte der Stadt Lehrte , Vol. 9), 1991
    • Vol. 7: A village under the swastika. Immense numbers in the years of National Socialism; Sources and representations on the history of Immensens , 1994
    • Vol. 8: Experienced village events. Fifty years of post-war history in Immensen , 1995
    • Vol. 9: Mining. Immensen village development from 1860 to 1914. 100 mining sites and their history , 2001
    • Vol. 10: Immense. Change of the townscape. Old and new views on village history, seen and experienced by Adolf Meyer , 2006
  • Adolf Meyer, Klaus-R. Rose (Ed.): The Great Free. Local history texts and bibliography from “Our District”, supplement to the Burgdorfer Kreisblatt / Lehrter Stadtblatt from 1949 to 1986 , Hübner, Lehrte 2008, ISBN 978-3-927359-65-9 ; Table of contents and content text
  • A village childhood. Erpensen from 1929 to 1945 , Kulturverein, [Wittingen] 2013

literature

  • Horst Hoffmann: Bibliography Adolf Meyer-Immensen (= Uelzener Bibliographien , Vol. 9), in: Der Heidewanderer. Home calendar for the city and district of Uelzen. Altmark-Blätter, Hoffmann, Uelzen 2009
  • Hans-Wilhelm Mölbitz: Adolf Meyer on his 80th birthday . In: Lehrter Land & People: Magazine on history, culture and local history , publisher: Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV, Hanover, Lehrte 2009, ISSN  0946-0365

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i o.V. : Meyer, Adolf in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of April 6, 2010, last accessed on April 9, 2018
  2. ↑ Lehrte / home historian Adolf Meyer is dead ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from April 11, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Katja Eggers: Lehrte / Adolf and Ilse Meyer celebrate diamond wedding ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 18, 2016, updated on May 21, 2016, last accessed on April 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer-Immensen, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, elementary school teacher, school principal, editor, regional historian and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Erpensen
DATE OF DEATH 5th April 2018