Adolf Petersen

Adolf Petersen (born May 20, 1874 in Steinfeld ; † August 22, 1949 ) was a Prussian post office clerk, local politician and local researcher .

Life

He grew up in a modest, rural environment and was employed as a postal assistant after three years of training in Kiel , Plön and Schenefeld . When he was appointed head of the local post office in 1899 and married the following year, Süderbrarup became Petersen's center of life. In this position he was responsible for a number of technical innovations such as the expansion of telecommunications technology or the establishment of omnibus lines, which, together with other reasons, meant that the place became the rural center of the area.

The construction of the post office, which he financed privately (1902), was a symbol of this development. Together with his wife, he developed a strong local commitment, partly in honorary positions, partly in community policy committees. In the local elections in 1933, Petersen ran as the top candidate of the “non-political citizen list” against the National Socialists and lost. In the same year he resigned from all his offices and began writing as a local historian. In the following years he wrote the chronicles of Dollrott , Brebel , Nottfeld , Steinfeld and Süderbrarup . During the Second World War he was the author of the so-called “Heimatbriefe” to soldiers from the community. In 1945 Petersen was appointed mayor for a short time and held several local offices until his death.

Petersen is an example of the Schleswig-Holstein, rural entrepreneur who implemented the upswing induced by technical progress. As such, he will be remembered by his contemporaries. The strong ties to the homeland emerged with a pronounced bourgeois-conservative attitude, which felt itself to be apolitical, but had a political effect and thus came into the focus of the local National Socialists in 1933. He was certainly not a resistance.

The extent to which he could not be viewed as a follower due to his personally declared internal opposition and his resignation from office remains to be seen. For today's generation of chroniclers, Petersen's works represent the core of the modern arrangements (Süderbrarup, Steinfeld, Brebel), some of which were taken over directly by Petersen in the processing of the early archival and archaeological sources. He is thus a representative of the early generation of chroniclers, whose works are the only existing ones for some villages to this day.

Works

• Nottfeld village register , Nottfeld 1942.
• Village book for the municipality of Steinfeld , Süderbrarup 1944. - The Steinfeld village chronicle , revised and supplemented by Detlef Lille, Steinfeld 1979
• (together with Peter Hinrichsen): Dollrott village book , Dollrottfeld 1943.
• Village book Brebel , Süderbrarup 1944.

literature

• Thomas Petersen: Postmaster Adolf Petersen, Süderbrarup. A conservative in the local election campaign in 1933 , yearbook of the Heimatverein der Landschaft fishing, 52nd year, 1988, pp. 152–166.
• J. Nagel: Adolf Petersen , Yearbook of the Angler Heimatverein, 13th year, 1949, p. 5ff.
• Süderbrarup. Market place and sub-center. Chronicle new edition, Süderbrarup 2006, p. 12.