August Laemmle

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Emil Stumpp August Lämmle (1926)

August Lämmle (born December 3, 1876 in Oßweil , today in Ludwigsburg , † February 8, 1962 in Tübingen ) was a Swabian dialect poet .

Life

August Lämmle trained as a primary school teacher in Esslingen am Neckar and Nürtingen from 1891 to 1896 . He then served in various places (including in Göppingen and Ulm ).

After the First World War , Lämmle took over the Cannstatter Volkshochschule. As a folklorist, he collected and published Swabian sayings , sagas , proverbs and folk songs . Since 1933 he had been a member of the NSDAP, where a party career was excluded for him: Since Lämmle had been a member of the Stuttgart Masonic lodge Zu den Drei Cedern , Great Lodge of Hamburg , until 1931 , he was given the ability by the NSDAP district court Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1935 revoked for life to clothing a party office . In addition, however, he belonged to the Reich Literature Chamber and Reich Chamber of Culture . Also as editor and editor of Württemberg. Swabian monthly magazines in the service of the people and homeland (since 1929), he was quite system-conform. In a short story with the title “Five Years Later” under the page title “On January 30, 1938”, i.e. the day Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, he gives a glorifying balance sheet to a fictional philosopher who returned to Germany after five years in America the development under Hitler and puts the words in his literary figure in a letter written “from National Socialist Germany”: “... what is the point of“ democracy ”if only the wealthy classes enjoy the treasure of the country and the work of the People have? ”“ Days of joy and jubilation like since March 12, 1938 ”, the day of the Anschluss , the German people“ never experienced in its two thousand year history ”, he wrote a little later,“ brought about a resurgence within a few years by the act of one man who performed the miracle… ”. In addition, he paid homage to the Reich Governor and NSDAP Gauleiter Wilhelm Murr , the son and leader of the Swabian people on his 50th birthday in December 1938 , in which he praised the state as happy ... the | kind gods given | Leaders and people from the eternal - | only fountain of blood ... Not long afterwards (1939) Lämmle was made chairman of the " Federation for Homeland Security in Württemberg and Hohenzollern ", today's " Swabian Homeland Federation ", at the express request of the Gauleitung as supposedly the best expert on the Swabian people . In 1946 he was persuaded to officially resign from some members of the Federation who had taken on the organization of a new beginning; nevertheless his name can be found in the list of deceased honorary members.

After his apartment in Cannstatt was destroyed in the Second World War , he moved to Leonberg with his wife. In the course of denazification in 1947 he was classified as a “fellow traveler” and sentenced to a fine. In 1951 he received the honorary citizenship of the city of Leonberg, which is now controversial because of its involvement in National Socialism . Relationships with his poet colleagues, some of whom were deeply involved, from the time of the Third Reich were evidently maintained after the end of the war: For example, the former Nazi cultural functionary and writer Gerhard Schumann named him Hellmuth Langenbucher in 1974 among the deceased with whom he claims to have been particularly connected , one of the leading Nazi literary historians, congratulated him on his 75th birthday in 1951 in his Swabian homeland .

August Lämmle died at the age of 85 in the Paul Lechler Hospital in Tübingen . His grave is in the Stuttgart forest cemetery .

According to August Lämmle, for example, there are streets and paths in Affalterbach , Aidlingen , Bempflingen , Bodelshausen , Eberdingen , Fellbach , Flein , Göppingen , Gruibingen , Großengstingen , Heilbronn , Hemmingen , Kirchberg an der Murr , Kernen im Remstal, Knittlingen, Korb , Kusterdingen , Leonberg , Leutenbach, in the Ludwigsburg district of Oßweil, in Maichingen , Marbach am Neckar , Mägerkingen , Mühlacker, Münchingen , Obersulm-Sülzbach , Remshalden -Geradstetten, Reutlingen, Roßwag , Rudersberg , Schöckingen , Trillfingen , Tuttlingen , Wangen im Allgäu and in Hepsisau in Weilheim an named the teck . Schools in Kusterdingen, Leonberg, Ludwigsburg-Oßweil and Rudersberg bear his name.

Awards and honors

Works

  • The Schorndorf local history , 1909
  • Schwobabluat , 1913
  • Oiges bread. Poems , Salzer, Heilbronn 1914
  • Spinning room stories , 1916
  • Colorful stories , 1917
  • Junker Goldmacherlein and other stories , 1918
  • Sunday , 1919
  • Schwobaspiegel , 1922
  • The story book , 1922
  • Swabian Folklore , 1924
  • Our Volkstum , 1925
  • The Heart of Home - a Swabian Book for Swabians who have emigrated , 1925 (together with Hans Reyhing )
  • Sun bouquet , 1926
  • The old church , 1926
  • Württemberg folk songs , 1929
  • Pictures from Württemberg's past and present , 1931
  • Swabian and All-Swabian , 1936
  • Journey to Swabia , 1937
  • It is quiet in the Holderbusch , 1938
  • Swabian poems , 1938
  • The Lord God in Allewind , 1939
  • The Zebulun. Stories from cheeky boys , Fleischauer & Spohn, Stuttgart 1940
  • The stars seem so bright , 1944
  • A small present , 1948
  • This is my country , 1950
  • On the move , 1951
  • The golden ground , 1953
  • Reach my heart , 1956
  • I look through the window from the outside , 1956
  • Swabian miniatures. Seeing our people in the heart and in the mouth , Cotta, Stuttgart 1957
  • People ... just people , 1959
  • Memories of Ludwigsburg , Stieglitz-Verlag Händle, Mühlacker 1960
  • Cycle around the sun eighty-five times , 1961

literature

  • Lieselotte Bihl:  Lämmle, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 403 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Carsten Kohlmann: The folklorist August Lämmle and the home protection movement in Württemberg. In: Schwabenbilder. To construct a regional character. Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen. Accompanying volume for the exhibition “Swabian Pictures” in the reel tower of Tübingen Castle, April 18 to June 1, 1997. Gulde-Druck Tübingen. 1997. ISBN 3-925340-97-1 (online as PDF) , pp. 141–148.
  • Paul Sauer : August Lämmle (1876–1962). From Oßweiler farmer's son to Swabian local poet and folklorist. In: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter 56 (2002), pp. 115–128.
  • Rainer Braun: August Lämmle. In: Lived utopia. On the trail of the Freemasons in Württemberg. Book accompanying the exhibition. Arranged by Albrecht Ernst u. Regina Grünert. Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-033569-1 , p. 136 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sauer: August Lämmle (see literature), p. 128.
  2. ↑ State Archives Ludwigsburg , personnel documents August Lämmle Bü 30 in inventory PL 502/29 ( collection items of the US military government for the documentation of the Nazi exposure of people resident in the Stuttgart district ) .
  3. ^ August Lämmle: Five years later. As of January 30, 1938. In: Württemberg. Swabian monthly books in the service of people and homeland 10 (1938), pp. 2–5, p. 5.
  4. ↑ August Lämmle: “A single tent, whether it's all German land…” For the day when German longing was fulfilled. In: [Württemberg. Swabian monthly books in the service of people and homeland] 10 (1938) p. 131 f., P. 131.
  5. ^ August Lämmle: Homage to Wilhelm Murr. In: Württemberg. Swabian monthly books in the service of people and homeland 10 (1938) p. 475.
  6. ↑ The Swabian Homeland League in the Nazi era . Website of the Swabian Heimatbund (online) .
  7. ↑ From the Federation for Homeland Security to the Swabian Homeland Federation: A New Beginning? Website of the Swabian Heimatbund (online)
  8. ↑ Deceased honorary chairmen and honorary members. Website of the Swabian Heimatbund (online) .
  9. ^ Denazification documents Bü 5249 in inventory EL 902/14 (Spruchkammer 29 - Leonberg: procedural files) in the Ludwigsburg State Archives .
  10. ↑ Gerhard Schumann: Reflection. Of art and life. 2nd edition Hohenstaufen-Verlag., Bodmann 1974, p. 228.
  11. ^ Hellmuth Langenbucher: August Lämmle on his 75th birthday. In: Schwäbische Heimat 2 (1951), p. 256.
  12. ↑ Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 26 (1940), p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Laemmle, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swabian dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Oßweil
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1962
Place of death Leonberg