Alfred Wesselmann

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Alfred Wesselmann (* 1948 in Mettingen ) is a German high school teacher , historian and author.

Life

Alfred Wesselmann grew up in his native Mettingen on Ibbenbürener Straße. He attended elementary school in the peasantry Wiehe, then the secondary school in Mettingen and then moved to the Goethe-Gymnasium Ibbenbüren . After graduating from high school, he completed a teaching degree for history and English. He also taught these two subjects as a teacher at the Hannah-Arendt-Gymnasium Lengerich, most recently as director of studies , until he retired at the beginning of 2013. He also worked at the center for practical teacher training in Rheine .

As a local historian, Alfred Wesselmann has dealt with various aspects of the history of the city of Lengerich , often in close collaboration with Heinrich Schlueter. Wesselmann is involved in the Lengerich Heimatverein, of which he is chairman of the “Urban History Working Group”.

His interests and research focus is the democratic movement in Westphalia in the Vormärz and in the revolution of 1848/49 . In several years of work he researched the life and work of Hermann Krieges (1820–1850) particularly intensively , which resulted in a biography of the Westphalian revolutionary. This dissertation fraternity, revolutionary, democrat Hermann wars and the liberation movement 1840-1850 Alfred Wesselmann was in 2002 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster for Dr. phil. PhD . In the same year, together with Heinrich Schlueter, he also published a two-volume collection of sources with letters from the war as well as criminal files and press publications.

In connection with these studies, another book was published on Das Westphälische Dampfboot , a left-democratic to early socialist weekly in Vormärz, which appeared in 2004. With the county Tecklenburg in 1848/49. German politics as reflected in provincial conditions (2012) Wesselmann once again focused on the eventful period from the March Revolution to the Frankfurt National Assembly . The events of that time in the Tecklenburg district proved to be of national interest, not least because personalities such as Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and Karl Heinrich Brüggemann competed there against each other throughout Germany .

Furthermore, in 2008 Wesselmann presented a biography of the pastor and missionary Eberhard Herrmann Röttger (1800–1888). His contributions have also appeared in various specialist journals and school publications, but also in Unser Kreis , the yearbook for the Steinfurt district , the yearbook for research on the history of the labor movement and in the Westphalia yearbook .

The historian is a member of the “American Network - Network for Westphalian Emigration to America since the 19th Century”.

Alfred Wesselmann lives and works in Lengerich.

Fonts

  • as compiler together with Heinrich Schlueter: Lengerich and the Thirty Years War . Urban history working group in the Lengerich Heimatverein, Lengerich 1998.
  • Fraternity, revolutionary, democrat: Hermann Kriege and the freedom movement 1840–1850 . Dissertation, Münster 2001 (in print under this title by Der Andere Verlag, Osnabrück 2002, ISBN 3-936231-11-7 ).
  • as compiler and editor together with Heinrich Schlüter: Hermann Kriege. Documentation of a change from fraternity and revolutionary to democrat (1840 - 1850) . The other publishing house, Osnabrück 2002
  • The Westphalian steamboat . Four sketches and register of persons . Aisthesis Verlag , Bielefeld 2004 ( ISBN 3-89528-447-5 ).
  • Otto Lüning , the Westphalian steam boat and the socially critical tendencies of contemporary painting , in: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Issue I / 2004.
  • Eberhard Hermann Röttger (1800-1888). Missionary in the Dutch East Indies - pastors in Lengerich and Lotte . Agenda-Verlag, Münster 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-89688-354-4 ).
  • The Tecklenburg district in the revolution of 1848/49. German politics in the mirror of provincial conditions . Volume 22 of the series Vormärz studies . Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2012 ( ISBN 978-3-89528-927-9 ).
  • as editor: Schools in Lengerich. From the beginning to the present . Westfälische Reihe, Münster 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-95627-263-9 or ISBN 978-3-95627-262-2 ).
  • as co-author: 150 years LWL-Klinik Lengerich . Kettler, Bönen 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-00-054431-6 ).
  • Friend or foe. Encounters with the foreign in Germany, Great Britain and the USA during the First World War . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-7460-3545-1 ; as e-book: ISBN 978-3-7460-2181-2 ).
  • as compiler : 1617–2017: 500 years of the Reformation in the Tecklenburger Land . Self-published by the history and homeland association Tecklenburg, Tecklenburg 2018 ( ISBN 9783 925-147-37-1 ).

Web links

Commons : Alfred Wesselmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b N.N .: Unrest in Tüöttendorf. Lecture event of the Heimatverein Mettingen . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung of September 27, 2012
  2. ↑ Mention in the school news of the Hannah-Arendt-Gymnasium from March 2013 - issue 20 (PDF); Retrieved October 17, 2014
  3. ↑ See, for example, a look at the document from 1147 . In: Westfälische Nachrichten , Lengerich edition, online version of March 30, 2011 ; Retrieved October 9, 2012
  4. ↑ List of members of the network , ameretz.de, accessed on February 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Wesselmann, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Mettingen