Bernhard Heinrich Stehlmann

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Old post office in Dobbertin, 2013
Seed house of the monastery forest office, behind it the old post office 2013

Bernhard (Heinrich) Stehlmann (born May 2, 1854 in Diemitz ; † June 17, 1939 in Dobbertin ) was postal secretary, local researcher and composer.

Life

Bernhard Stehlmann was born on May 2, 1854 in Diemitz. His father Joachim Stehlmann was a village school teacher in the monastery village of Diemitz in the Hinteren Sandpropstei, his mother Caroline, a née Bünger. After the retired school teacher died in 1897, the school teacher widow received an appropriate pension from the Dobbertin monastery office.

Little is known about Bernhard Stehlmann's youth. After completing school, he worked in teaching for four years. Bernhard Stehlmann married Hedwig Sophie Henriette Pintz on April 25, 1884 in Röbel / Müritz , the daughter of the city treasurer Pintz zu Röbel, who had since died. The Stehlmann family had four children, all of whom were born in Dobbertin and after a good education held managerial positions.

  • Anna (Anni) Philippine Henny Sophia Wilhelmine (* May 27, 1885), graduate business teacher and deputy director of the vocational and commercial school in Berlin-Schöneberg.
  • Margarethe Johanna Emilie Caroline Helene (born May 1, 1886), died at the age of 36 as a post office worker in Lübz .
  • Hans Gustav Heinrich Willy August (born November 17, 1887), teacher at the teachers' college in Neukloster .
  • Walter Carl Johann Bernhard (born January 6, 1895), business graduate in Berlin.

The Stehlmanns lived in Goldberg from 1919 to 1923. So far, only information about his life can be found from his personal notes, which he handed over to the state library in Schwerin. Stehlmann's wife Hedwig died on September 19, 1936 after a stroke in Dobbertin. Bernhard Stehlmann died on June 17, 1939 and was buried in the Dobbertin monastery cemetery.

Postal secretary

Stehlmann joined the postal service on May 22, 1875 as a postal assistant. In June 1879 he became a postal assistant and on October 1, 1882 he was employed by the state at the post office in Kleinen , today's Bad Kleinen, as a postal administrator.

From March 1, 1884, Stehlmann was given the management of the post office in Dobbertin . The previous postmaster Carl Johann Wiese then worked as a notary in the monastery administration. The post office was called model post office because it was called Post Office III from 1885. Class was classified. In 1852, the then monastery captain Carl Peter Baron von Le Fort had the current old post office , a decoratively decorated single-storey brick building with postmaster's apartment and post office , built by Wismar's private architect Heinrich Thormann . Thormann was then responsible for the internal restoration of the Dobbertiner monastery church from 1854 to 1857 . Since there was no telegraph station in neighboring Goldberg and Dobbertin was very much cut off from a telegraph connection, in 1872 the then monastery governor, Count von Bernstorff , had the new telegraph line from Güstrow simply routed via the Dobbertiner post building after a financial agreement with the Hamburg telegraph management. The service was provided by the post office worker there.

Stehlmann conscientiously headed the Dobbertiner post office for 36 years. During his years of service he had one to three postal workers, two postmen, a country mailman and from 1902 the postman Johann Wüstenberg. The Dobbertiner Klosteramt had an apartment with a garden built for the married Dobbertiner postman Wilhelm Boldt in 1897. After negotiations with the Imperial Post Office Directorate in Schwerin, the monastery office had a house built for four imperial country mail carriers in 1899.

From 1904 to 1906, Stehlmann was in close contact with the pharmacist Otto Held, who ran the branch pharmacy in Dobbertin and was an ornithologist . They carried out joint excursions in the Dobbertiner area, because Dobbertin has a very interesting environment with lakes, meadows and forests. Stehlmann worked in the Dobbertiner post office until his retirement on May 1, 1919. Older Dobbertines who had met him, such as the master carpenter Roloff, talked about him as a very accurate person.

Local historian and composer

During his postal service, Bernhard Stehlmann was not only an accurate civil servant, but also an active local researcher, conservationist and composer. Many botanical and ornithological observations come from him. From 1887 he was a member of the Association of Natural History in Mecklenburg, but resigned again during the inflationary years because I had to avoid all expendable costs .

Stehlmann devoted himself particularly to the bird world. The first data on the immigration of the sprout from him are also from him , he is the closest relative of the nightingale and sings deceptively similar to it, handed down in Mecklenburg. From 1904 to 1934 he documented the flight of birds of a total of 48 species in his scientific research. He described 53 species of mussels and snails from the Dobbertiner area and the Schwinzer Heide alone and made contributions to amphibians and snakes . On prehistoric and early history, Stehlmann also worked with the most famous Mecklenburg geologist Professor Eugen Geinitz , who was researching in the Schwinz Hellberg clay pit near the former monastery brickworks near Schwinz as early as 1879 . His list of plant finds is very instructive even for today's florists. It contains rare endangered species, including moss bell and creeping reticulate leaf . The course of their immigration has been documented for species such as small-flowered French herb and cypress milkweed .

Bernd Stehlmann also had bees and was a very keen beekeeper who also wrote about beekeeping in specialist magazines.

While still alive, on April 16, 1934, at the age of 80, Stehlmann transferred two handwritten books with the title Natural History Findings for Dobbertin and the Surrounding Area to the state library in Schwerin for posterity. His ornithological and floristic observations, which are so important, have unfortunately not yet been published. As a foreword he wrote: I would like to hand over the following books that I have written to the State Library on the assumption that, given the length of time I have spent on the findings, there is perhaps more value in them than I can overlook, and in the Considering that it might be a shame if, after my death, which is naturally not far off, the two books would lapse into destruction ... First of all, I would like to relieve myself by securing these books ...

Bernhard Stehlmann also seemed to have been very musical, because he was a gifted piano player and composer. He was even advised to join the composers' association. In his estate there are various poems and original texts as well as his notes. He also composed the Müritz song, which is still sung today. And he was also very popular with the Dobbertiner nuns. He set the poem Am Jawir See by the 68-year-old Conventual Louise von Winterfeld from 1925 to music and played it to the ladies on the piano. In 1919, when he retired, Stehlmann composed a song without words, My Farewell to Dobbertin and Wehmütige Freud, back at home in dear old Dobbertin.

Panorama view in the Schwinzer Heide

Works

Booklet 1 (with cover inscription POETRY, in the appendix glued 7 songs with texts and notes)

  • My farewell to Dobbertin. Song without Words 1919.
  • Greeting. based on a poem by Paul Wilhelm
  • Wistful joy, back at home in dear old Dobbertin. Song without words 1923, June 24, 1926.
  • We have to leave tomorrow. Seal by A. Hoffmann von Fallersleben .
  • Under your eyes, O Jesus. Seal by Gustav Schüler.
  • Greetings to Müritz. Folk song, poetry by Ernst Hamann with the following press release Feb. 19, 1930 Ludorf bei Röbel As every year, the Ludorf men's choir organizes a family evening for which the manor has made the farm building available. Merit of the cantor Wittmies, rehearsals of folk songs and Low German performances, the youth of the village put together various folk songs for performance. The local Müritz song was sung together.
  • At Jawirsee . October 14, 1924 composed by Louise von Winterfeld , Dobbertin February 22, 1925 Bernhard Stehlmann. Note: Jawirsee is the lake at Dobbertin Monastery. On old maps it is called Jawirsee. Miss von Winterfeld, the local conventual, had written in the poem old Jawirsee, which is why I (Stehlmann) did it. Usually the lake half near Dobbertin is called the Dobbertiner See.

Booklet 2 (on the last page a photo of him in his room) motto In work you forget your worries about your own life.

  • Mudder luck. Low German poem by Felix Stillfried, B. Stehlmann Dobbertin December 16, 1927, identical to No. 1773 A.
  • Folk song. for piano by B. Stehlmann (De Dichter is not known to me) December 11, 1910.
  • Put-Hänneken. according to an old poem, the poet is not known to me (Stehlmann). For piano with text by B. Stehlmann. For Prof. Dr. Ernst Hamann in friendship copied by B. Stehlmann in Dobbertin Monastery July 21, 1931.
  • The Alt-Gaarz song . Heinrich Hamann, Bernhard Stehlmann for a voice with piano as a print in postcard size.
  • Greetings to Müritz. Seal by Ernst Hamann for mixed choir by B. Stehlmann, Dobbertin (Mecklenburg) May 20, 1926.
  • A Christmas carol without words. for piano by B. Stehlmann, Dobbertin in 1928 amicably dedicated to Miss Lieschen von Bülow.

Honors

  • 1915 Silver Cross of Merit of the Grand Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

literature

  • Rudolf Kuhk: The birds of Mecklenburg. Guestrow 1939.
  • Walter Kintzel, Wolfgang Mewes: The bird world of the Lübz district. Schwerin 1976.
  • Walter Kintzel: Bernhard Stehlmann - a forgotten Mecklenburg homeland researcher? In: Nature conservation work in Mecklenburg . Vol. 26 (1983) 1, pp. 44-46.
  • Grete Grewolls: Stehlmann, Bernhard. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. (1995) p. 417.
  • Klaus Weidemann: On the forest, forest and settlement history. Issue 1 (From culture and science), series of publications Naturpark Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide, Karow (1999) pp. 6–54.
  • Frank Bannasch: The white stork on the ladies' house. Bernhard Stehlmann - local researcher and conservationist from Dobberin. In: SVZ Mecklenburg-Magazin (2006) 7, p. 12.
  • Hannelore Hinz: The success has many masters on the trail of the original version of the composition of the Müritz song. In: My Mecklenburg. Vol. 4 (2011) pp. 27-28.
  • Grete Grewolls: Stehlmann, Bernhard (Heinrich) . In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. (2011)
  • Hannelore Hinz, Wilfried Krempin: And always the old song ... In: SVZ Mecklenburg-Magazin (2011) 1, p. 27.
  • Horst Alsleben : conservationist, composer and civil servant Dobbertin. Postal Secretary Bernhard Stehlmann had many facets. SVZ Lübz - Goldberg - Plau, July 9, 2016.

Unprinted sources

  • Schwerin State Library
    • Bernd Stehlmann: Natural history findings for Dobbertin and the surrounding area. Dobbertin 1934, issue 1, 102 pages and notes.
    • Bernd Stehlmann: Natural history findings for Dobbertin and the surrounding area. Dobbertin 1934, issue 2, 96 pp.
  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.
    • LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag negotiations , Landtag assemblies , Landtag minutes and Landtag committee.

Web links

  • Literature about Bernhard Stehlmann in the state bibliography MV.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Protocols of the Landtag. Sternberg 1897, No. 14.
  2. ↑ church records Dobbertin 1674-1804.
  3. ↑ Landesbibliothek Schwerin, Sig.No. Mkl f IV 381/10 (1 + 2)
  4. ↑ Dobbertin's death register 1914–1938.
  5. ↑ Dobbertin's death register 1938–1954.
  6. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Protocols of the Landtag. Malchin 1852, no.9.
  7. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Protocols of the Landtag. Malchin 1872, no.29.
  8. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Protocols of the Landtag. Sternberg 1899, No. 5.
  9. ^ Wilfried Krempin: Otto Held (1875–1945) Mecklenburg pharmacist & ornithologist. In: Bull and Griffin. Schwerin 2009, pp. 40-53.
  10. ^ Written information on Stehlmann by Walter Kintzel on April 22, 2006.
  11. ↑ Walter Kintzel, Wolfgang Mewes: Die Vogelwelt des Kreis Lübz. Schwerin 1983, p. 6.
  12. ↑ Walter Kintzel: compositions about Dobbertin? SVZ Luebz February 25, 1981.
  13. ↑ Frank Bannasch: The white stork on the ladies' house. SVZ MM (2006) 7, p. 12.
  14. ↑ Walter Kintzel: Bernhard Stehlmann - a forgotten Mecklenburgischer local historian? In: Naturschutz in Mecklenburg 1983, p. 44.
  15. ↑ Both originals viewed by the author on April 4, 2006 in the State Library in Schwerin, Sig. No. Mkl f IV 381/10 (1 + 2).
  16. ^ Landesbibliothek Schwerin, music collection.
  17. ↑ Hannelore Hinz, Wilfried Krempin: And always the old song ... SVZ MM (2011) 1, p. 27.
  18. ^ Horst Alsleben: conservationist, composer and civil servant Dobbertins. SVZ, newspaper for Lübz-Goldberg-Plau, 9./10. July 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Stehlmann, Bernhard Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stehlmann, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German postal secretary, local researcher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Diemitz
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1939
Place of death Dobbertin