Anton Rosen (local history researcher)

Anton Rosen (born April 25, 1892 in Naklo , Tarnowitz district , Upper Silesia ; † June 10, 1979 in Ibbenbüren ) was a German teacher and local researcher . He wrote essential books on the local history of the city of Ibbenbüren.

Life

Education and teaching

Anton Rosen was born as the ninth of 14 children to a Steiger . After graduating from elementary school , he wanted to become an elementary school teacher himself. For this purpose he attended the preparatory institute and the royal teachers' college in Tarnowitz not far from his birthplace Naklo, which was later incorporated into the mountain town , for three years . As a soldier in World War I , he was seriously wounded.

Because there was a surplus of teachers at the time, he left his home in Upper Silesia after the first teacher examination and entered the public school service in the Westphalian administrative district of Münster . There he worked on his further training and a professional advancement. In 1921 he passed his Abitur in Münster and then studied philosophy , mathematics and geography at the Westphalian Wilhelms University there in order to qualify for higher education .

In May 1927 Anton Rosen came to Ibbenbüren, where he was appointed high school teacher at the rectorate school in 1941 . It was largely thanks to him that this school was able to start teaching again in 1946 after the destruction caused by the Second World War , albeit initially with only three teachers and almost no inventory. In the years that followed, the Rector's School developed into the Amtsgymnasium (later Goethe-Gymnasium ), which meant that Rosen was promoted to teaching at this new school in 1957 . In 1958, after a total of 46 years in school, he retired, but continued to teach temporarily at the grammar school until he was over 70.

Services as a local researcher

Anton Rosen not only found a second home in Ibbenbüren, but has also intensively researched the history of the mining town over decades and published it in numerous publications. Although Anton Führer, Hubert Rickelmann and, in particular, Rudolf Dolle had already presented important publications on individual aspects of Ibbenbüren's history before him , it was only Rosen who managed to gain an overall view of urban development. His two extensive books Ibbenbüren. Once and now (1952) and Ibbenbüren from prehistory to the present (1969) are standard works on local history in this regard. For the 100th anniversary of the high school in 1959, Rosen edited the Festschrift . In his investigations, however, he also reached beyond the closer city history, for example for his book Church and Parish in Tecklenburger Land (1954). Rosen also wrote numerous articles, mainly also about local history, for the Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung , in whose publishing house, the Ibbenbürener Vereinsdruckerei (IVD), he also published three of his books. He wrote further articles for a number of compilations. His work was an important basis for Friedrich Ernst Hunsche's later book about Ibbenbüren.

But Anton Rosen didn't just want to bring home history back to life on paper, he also wanted to make it accessible to direct viewing and experiencing. He worked as curator of the Ibbenbüren local history museum, which was destroyed by bombs in 1944. After the war, Rosen campaigned intensively for the re-establishment of this institution. When the Ibbenbüren Art and Museum Association was founded in 1965, Anton Rosen took over the position of deputy chairman. In addition to promoting the fine arts and preserving the local cultural assets, the association also pursued - as its name suggests - the goal of establishing a new museum. But it wasn't until 2008 that this idea became a reality and a city museum was set up in Haus Herold . Before that, however, the Ibbenbüren Home and Customs Association had built a bakery on the grounds of the Bögel-Windmeyer leisure center in 1992 and a home with exhibition rooms in 1996/97.

The Anton-Rosen-Gängesken in downtown Ibbenbüren

Appreciations

Rosen's achievements as a local researcher and his commitment to the city of Ibbenbüren have been honored several times. In 1968 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . The city of Ibbenbüren honored him by naming the Anton-Rosen-Gängesken after him.

Anton Rosen died on June 10, 1979 at the age of 87. He was buried in the Ibbenbüren central cemetery. His legacy from the local history, consisting of 207 files, is in the Ibbenbüren town archive, which he also helped to expand.

Fonts

• Ibbenbueren. Then and now. Ibbenbueren 1952
• Church and parish in the Tecklenburger Land [in the appendix: Bernhard von Ibbenbüren , first prince-bishop of Paderborn ], Ibbenbüren 1954
• 100 years of high school in the Ibbenbüren district. Ibbenbüren grammar school 1859–1959 , Festschrift, Ibbenbüren 1959
• Ibbenbüren from prehistory to the present. Ibbenbueren 1969

literature

• NN: District President Dr. Schneeberger handed over to the a. D. Anton Rosen Federal Cross of Merit . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from July 3, 1968
• NN: Anton Rosen † . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from June 12, 1979

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} N.N .: Anton Rosen † . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from June 12, 1979
2. ↑ ^{a b c} N.N .: District President Dr. Schneeberger handed over to the a. D. Anton Rosen Federal Cross of Merit . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from July 3, 1968
3. ↑ ^{a b} N.N .: 46 years servant and friend of the youth. Farewell party for teacher Anton Rosen in high school . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from April 1, 1958
4. ^ Friedrich Ernst Hunsche: Ibbenbüren. From a rural parish to a modern city. Scholten, Ibbenbüren, 1974. 223 pp.
5. ^ History of the Ibbenbüren City Museum
6. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: History of the Ibbenbüren Art Association
7. ↑ Josef Rötker: With combined forces, a new home was built on the website of the Association for Home and Customs Care Ibbenbüren eV
8. ↑ Entry in archive.nrw.de