Andreas Huebbe
Andreas Hübbe (born October 19, 1865 in Kläden in the Altmark district ; † May 25, 1941 in Hamburg ) was a businessman and linguist .
Life and work as a businessman
Andreas Hübbe came from an old Hamburg family. His father Johannes Huebbe was a royal dune inspector and the last governor of the island of Sylt . The maiden name of the mother Thusnelda is not documented. He initially received lessons from Pastor Asmus Fr. Thomsen in Keitum . Then he went to Dr. Bieber's boys' school in Hamburg.
Hübbe completed an apprenticeship as a businessman and worked as an assistant for a Hamburg overseas company until 1887. He then completed further training in Manchester and in 1899 went to Buenos Aires as an assistant for a Hamburg company , where he worked on his own account from 1892 and founded his first factory that produced collars.
In 1906 Hübbe went back to Hamburg, where he opened the export company Andreas Hübbe in 1908 . The company was last in the Zippelhaus . During the global economic crisis, his income from overseas sank so significantly that at the end of his life he had almost no more surpluses.
Working as a linguist
Hübbe devoted himself to Sylter Frisian (Söl'ring) for life . He had learned the dialect when he was four years old while playing with his peers. Even before moving to Argentina, he wrote letters from his travels in the Söl'ring for the “Sylter Intellektivenblatt”. In 1899 he called on the South American residents of Sylt not to give up the dialect. In 1900 he visited the island and together with friends founded the “Foiirining fuar Söl'ring Spraak ein Wiis”, which was supposed to take care of language maintenance in particular.
After his return to Hamburg in 1906, Hübbe intensified his efforts. He saw the greatest potential for cultivating the language among the young people of Sylt. He asked the retired Rector Boy Peter Möller, who lived in Hamburg, to write a “Söl'ring Leesbok” together with some people from Syltern. The Sylter Verein in Hamburg donated the reader to the island's schools in 1909. The district school inspector in Tondern accepted language lessons in dialect, but the royal government in Schleswig forbade this a little later. Private lessons that were started in Westerland did not last long.
Despite the problems, Hübbe stuck to his plan. He collected the "Fries donation", which should enable work on a larger scale. He addressed his colleagues in Hamburg and shipowners in other Hanseatic cities in particular and was able to collect money successfully. He wanted to finance reading books for other types of island mouths, in particular Föhr , Amrum and Helgoland . He demanded that the authors use the spelling that Boy Peter Möller had previously used, which complicated the search for an author. Then there was the outbreak of the First World War , which made further work impossible.
In 1911, from the “Fries donation”, Hübbe financed the “Söl'ring Leedjibok” for the Sylter Verein in Altona as well as its own “Dechtings en Leedjis”, which supplemented the “Leesbok”. The book was published in the second edition in 1913 and in the third edition in 1927. Due to the inflation associated with the global economic crisis , the assets of the "Frisian donation" were reduced so significantly that the funds were no longer sufficient to finance further work in this area. Hubbe then wrote poems in Friesisches Platt, which were added to the Sylter Zeitung from 1926 as "Fuar Söl'ring Lir". More than 100 works were created in this way.
literature
- Hermann Schmidt: Hübbe, Andreas . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 4. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1976, pp. 114–115
- Thomas Steensen: The Frisian Movement in North Frisia in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Neumünster 1986
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hübbe, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Businessman and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kladen in the Altmark district |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1941 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |