Albert Breyer

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Albert Breyer (born February 2, 1889 in Żyrardów in Russian Poland , † September 11, 1939 in Warsaw ) was a German-Polish local historian and teacher .

Life

He was initially a primary school teacher in Koluszki , Łódź and Leosin . Shortly before the start of the First World War , Breyer entered the St. Petersburg Teachers' Institute. At the beginning of the war in 1914 he was drafted into the Russian army and began officer training at the St. Petersburg Cadet Institute . During the Russian Revolution he stayed in Kharkov, Ukraine (then part of Russia ). He then returned to Poland and was an elementary school teacher in Brzeziny until 1919 .

During the Polish-Soviet War in 1920, Breyer volunteered in the Polish army. He then taught at the German high schools in Zgierz and Sompolno . In 1937, the Polish authorities withdrew his teaching license. When the attack on Poland began , he was drafted into the Polish army and took part in the fight against the German armed forces . He was wounded in the first days of the war and died shortly afterwards in a hospital in Warsaw.

Richard Breyer was his son.

Publications

  • German districts in central Poland. In: German monthly books in Poland, magazine for the past and present of Germanness in Poland. Volume 1 (11), April 1935, issue 10, pp. 395–434.
  • German draper immigration to the East Central European area from 1550 to 1830. Leipzig 1941 ( posthumously published fragment).
  • On the history of Sompolno and the surrounding area, folk series of publications to promote German homeland education and family tradition in Poland. "Our home", No. 4. Posen 1938.
  • The origin of the German farming villages in Congress Poland, in: Agricultural Calendar in Poland, Posen , 1926.
  • The literature about the Germans in the former Congress Poland , in: Deutsche Blätter in Polen, Historical Society for Posen, Volume II, Issue 3, March 1925.
  • The German colonization in the former Russian area - a dispute, in: Deutsche Blätter in Polen, Posen, Heft 5, 1927, pp. 265-276.
  • The Weichseldorf Słońsk, the oldest German settlement in the former Congress Poland, in: Volksfreundkalender, Lodz, 1928, pp. 147–150.
  • The landscape structure of Germanness in Central Poland; in: German school newspaper in Poland, XII, 10 of June 10, 1933.
  • The origin of the German rural population in the Kujawian Lake District , in: Deutsche Monatshefte in Polen, Volume 1 (11), Aug 1934, Issue 2.
  • East Germany as the motherland of the German settlements in central Poland, in: Deutsche Monatshefte in Polen, year 2 (12), issue 1/2, Jul / Aug 1935.
  • The first German city of cloth makers in Poland ( Dombie ), in: German Scientific Journal for Poland, Issue 29, Posen 1935.
  • The German villages in the area around Lodz in: Deutsche Monatshefte in Polen, Volume 2 (12), Issue 5/6, Nov / Dec 1935, also in: Freie Presse, Lodz, August 1938.
  • The emigration of German farmers from the Gostynin region to Volhynia (1855–1885), in: Deutsche Monatshefte in Polen, Volume 3 (13), Issue 8/9, Feb / Mar 1937.
  • Map of the German settlements in central Poland. 1: 500,000, in: Viktor Kauder, Das Deutschtum in Polen. An illustrated book; Leipzig 1938, also in: Jomsburg 2, Heft 1, 1938; also in German Monthly Issues in Poland, Volume 5 (15), Issue 2/3, Aug / Sep 1938.
  • The German rural settlements of the central Polish Warthebruch , in: Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Polen, Issue 34, 1938.
  • Sources on the history of Germanness in Central Poland, in: German Monthly Issues in Poland, Volume 5 (15), Issue 11/12, May / Jun 1939.

Honors

Albert Breyer received the Copernicus Prize of the JW Goethe Foundation posthumously in 1940.

Publications by Albert Breyer available online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.upstreamvistula.org/Documents/ABreyer_CV_D.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.upstreamvistula.org/Documents/ABreyer_DerForscher.pdf
  3. ^ Kuhn, Walter: Albert Breyer , in: Deutsche Monatshefte, Volume 6 (16), Issue 5/6, November / December 1939.
  4. ^ Koßmann, Eugen Oskar: Albert Breyer , in: Jomsburg - Peoples and States in Eastern and Northern Europe, quarterly Leipzig; Volume 3 (1939), 3/4.
  5. ↑ Eichler, Adolf: Albert Breyer. In memory of the German fighters in the East , in: Deutsche Post aus dem Osten, Working Group of Associations of German Colonists from Ukraine and Poland, Vol. 12, No. 1, Berlin, January 1940.
  6. ↑ Eichler, Adolf: Deutschtum im Schatten des Ostens, Ein Lebensbericht , Dresden 1942.
  7. ^ Breyer, Richard: Albert Breyer 1889-1939, teacher and folk researcher; in: Of our kind. On the life and work of German people in the area of ​​the Vistula and Warta; published by Fritz Weigelt, Wuppertal, 1963.
  8. ^ Breyer, Richard: Breyer, Albert Schulmann und Siedlungsforscher , in: Ostdeutsche Gedenktage 1989, pp. 9–11, Cultural Foundation of German Displaced Persons, Bonn.
  9. ↑ Zimmermann, Jan: The FVS Foundation's Culture Awards 1935–1945 , Toepfer Foundation FVS, Hamburg, 2000
  10. ↑ http://www.upstreamvistula.org/Documents/ABreyer_Pub_D.htm
  11. ↑ http://www.upstreamvistula.org/Documents/ABreyer_CV_D.htm
personal data
SURNAME Breyer, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish local historian and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Żyrardów , Russian Poland
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1939
Place of death Warsaw