Adolf Poschmann

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Adolf August Poschmann (born January 2, 1885 in Neuendorf in Warmia , † December 24, 1977 in Münster ) was a German pedagogue , local researcher and non-fiction author .

Life

August Poschmann was born in Neuendorf (today Nowa Wieś Mała) in the Heilsberg district in 1885 . He passed the Abitur in Braunsberg and studied German and history in Innsbruck, Berlin and Munich as well as geography in Königsberg . In Berlin he became a member of the CV connection Hansea, in Munich the KDStV Aenania Munich and in Königsberg the Tuisconia. In 1910 he was in geography at the Friedrich Hahn in Königsberg for his doctorate doctor . Subsequently he was senior teacher and then director of the German high school in Madrid as well as a teacher and from 1922 to 1945 director of the state high school in Rößel . In between he was director of the castle school in Braunsberg from 1930 to 1933. After the end of the war he headed the state advanced high school in Rüthen, Westphalia, until his retirement in 1950 .

For years, Adolf Poschmann researched constitutional and social history as well as church, cultural and economic history in Warmia and wrote monographs a . a. about the cities of Braunsberg, Rößel and Seeburg . This was followed by publications on the Augustinian monastery and the Jesuit college in Rößel.

From the end of the 1920s, August Poschmann was a member of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research and for many years a member of the Historical Association for Warmia . In recognition of his services as a teacher, headmaster and local history researcher, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1960 .

Awards

  • 1960: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Fonts (selection)

  • The settlements in the Braunsberg and Heilsberg districts . Warmian newspaper and publishing house printing, Braunsberg 1913.
  • The Jesuit college in Rößel . Warmian newspaper and publishing house printer, Braunsberg 1933.
  • The introduction of the Stein town regulations in Braunsberg. The magistrate and city councilors 1809–1817 . Verlag Rößel, 1936.
  • 600 years of Rößel. Pictures from old and new times 1337–1937 . Publishing house B. Kruttke successor, Rößel 1937.
  • 600 years of Seeburg. Pictures from old and new times 1338–1938 . Publishing house city administration, Seeburg 1938.
  • Warmia. A Catholic farming country in the east of Germany . A. Fromm Verlag and Handelsdruckerei, Osnabrück 1960.
  • The parish of Heinrikau in old and new times. Heinrikau, Kleefeld, Komainen, Neuhof, Braunsberg district, East Prussia . Truso-Verlag, Bremerhaven 1973.
  • The Scots in Warmia . In: Warmian house calendar . Maximilian Kaller Foundation (Ed.), 1963, pp. 145–155.

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SURNAME Poschmann, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poschmann, Adolf August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, local researcher and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuendorf, Warmia
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1977
Place of death Muenster