Albert Koebele

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Albert Köbele (born June 6, 1909 in Grafenhausen ; † December 11, 1982 ibid) was a German genealogist and local history researcher .

Life

As the son of a farmer, he attended high school in Ettenheim . He then studied German and history at the University of Freiburg .

Even in his youth he was enthusiastic about family history research . In 1936 this led to his employment at the Reichsnährstand in Berlin, a branch of the Baden State Farmers' Association in Karlsruhe-Rüppurr. Horst Rechenbach , main department head in the staff office of the Reichsbauernführer , had set the task of preparing a village clan book for each village . In each Reichsgau a village should be worked on quickly and then serve as a model for further work. Köbele himself was in 1937/38 on the completion and publication of the very first book and the resulting instructions Das Dorfsippenbuch: Illustrated by means of a reading sample from the Dorfsippenbuch of the municipality of Lauf , Bühl Office, Baden / compiled in the staff office of the Reichsbauernführer after that of the Baden state farmers involved in made family book . In the 1939 Dorfsippenbuch Grafenhausen he is named as the sole editor.

After the war, Köbele continued to map church records in Baden with great personal commitment . From 1950 until his death he self-published 47 local clan books from 53 formerly independent communities in Baden. In addition, he earned services as a local chronicle and through his contributions to the magazine "Badische Familienkunde". Half of the revised edition of the Grafenhausen Ortssippenbuch, printed in 1971, consists of the village chronicle. - As an unmarried employee, Köbele lived in the house of his younger brother, who had taken over his father's farm in 1949 after his father's death.

Köbele's life's work is continued up to the present by the "Interest Group Badischer Ortssippenbücher" in Lahr / Black Forest . By 2015, the series “Badische Ortssippenbücher” founded by Köbele had published 174 volumes.

In 1992 a street in Grafenhausen was named after him.

literature

  • Manfred Hofmann, Albert Köbele and Robert Wetekam : From the church register mapping to the Ortssippenbuch: A work instruction. Glücksburg / Baltic Sea: Strong 1957 (= Current Topics on Genealogy 2)
  • Albert Köbele: Village family book Grafenhausen . Goslar: Association for peasant family history and peasant coat of arms 1939
  • Albert Köbele: Ortssippenbuch Grafenhausen . Grafenhausen: Self-published by the author in 1971

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] , Kappel-Grafenhausen History Working Group
  2. ^ [2] , Albert Köbele, village chronicler of Grafenhausen near Lahr
  3. ^ [3] Interest group Badischer Ortssippenbücher Albert Köbele successor
personal data
SURNAME Koebele, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genealogist and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafenhausen
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1982
Place of death Grafenhausen