Alwin Teumer

Alwin Teumer (born January 1, 1828 in Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. , † July 11, 1890 in Zwickau ) was a royal Saxon forester and an original in the western Ore Mountains .

Life

Alwin Teumer attended the forestry school in Waldenburg and the Tharandt Forestry University . From 1862 to 1889 he lived with his wife Alwine in the forester's house in Tellerhäuser . Here he was a fatherly friend to his subordinates, who spoke in the familiar Ore Mountains dialect, but switched to High German when he had business with them. Teumer was not only a forester, but also a community leader and registrar in Tellerhäuser.

Together with the forest warden Wilhelm Barthel, it went down as an original in the history of the Upper Western Ore Mountains. He was often in the mood for strange pranks that are remembered to this day. For example, after a visit to the Patscherei inn in Goldenhöhe, on the way home at night, he suddenly found himself dead. Barthel fell for this prank, covered the supposed corpse with spruce branches and ran into the forest tavern in Zweibach , completely dissolved . Here he terrified those present with the news of his death. When the undead Teumer later stepped into the tavern, this caused even greater excitement.

Teumer had an operation on a sick toe in the Zwickau hospital in 1890. He died of a stroke shortly before he was released .

The writer Hans Siegert set Teumer and Barthel among other things with the stories Wenns Mailüftel blows and The King is coming! two permanent monuments.

literature

• Gottfried Becker: The Tellerhäuser Förster Alwin Teumer - an Erzgebirge of real grist and grain , in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 22 (2000), Heft 3, S. 19-20.