Christian Fieß

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Christian Fieß (born May 27, 1910 in Sarata , Russian Empire ; † November 27, 2001 in Mühlacker ) was a teacher of Bessarabian German origin, author and founder of the Bessarabian German Museum of Local History in Stuttgart . Between 1976 and 1982 he was federal chairman of the Bessarabian German national team .

Life

Christian Fieß was the 10th child of Christian Fieß and his wife Elisabeth, geb. Army, born. His parents lived as Bessarabian German farmers in Bessarabia , which at that time belonged to the Russian Empire. Christian Fieß was born in the village of Sarata , which in 1940 had around 2,100 inhabitants of German descent. The village was founded in 1822 by emigrants from Württemberg and Bavaria. They were led by the Catholic priest Ignaz Lindl and had moved to southern Russia for religious reasons .

Christian Fieß first attended elementary school in Sarata and switched to the Werner School there in 1923 . After passing the exam, he was a trained teacher in 1930. Then he did his military service in the Romanian army. Subsequently, he was not accepted into the Romanian school service. An intervention by the Bessarabian German senior pastor and Romanian MP Daniel Haase at the Ministry of Education was unsuccessful. Afterwards Christian Fieß was employed as a teacher in the Bessarabian German settlements of Leipzig , Jekaterinowka and Kolatschowka and also in Transylvania . In 1936 he took up an office in youth work at the People's Council of the Bessarabian Germans . Soon he was accepted into the inner circle of this self-administration and co-determination body. His work for the People's Council led to the establishment of youth groups in numerous Bessarabian German settlements. This led to visiting contacts with young people from the German Reich . In the spa town of Bad Burnas on the Black Sea , Fieß founded a youth home to which youth excursions from the interior of the country took place.

In 1940 Christian Fieß married Emma Wagner. The marriage had two children. After the Bessarabian Germans were resettled in 1940 , he and his wife were resettled in the Wartheland . In 1942 he was drafted as a soldier by the Wehrmacht and seriously wounded in Russia during the Second World War . He returned to Germany from captivity in 1947 and soon settled in Mühlacker . He returned to the place from which his ancestors had emigrated to Bessarabia at the beginning of the 19th century. Fieß was accepted into the school service as a teacher in Mühlacker. He later became the principal of a school there.

In 1952 Christian Fieß founded the local museum of the Bessarabian Germans in Stuttgart. The forerunner in Bessarabia was the cultural history museum of the Germans in Bessarabia , which existed from 1922 to 1940 in his hometown Sarata. The museum was founded by his father-in-law Immanuel Wagner.

Between 1976 and 1982 Christian Fieß was Federal Chairman of the Landsmannschaft of the Bessarabien Germans , after which he was appointed Federal Honorary Chairman.

Most recently Christian Fieß lived in a retirement home. He was buried in the cemetery in Mühlacker-Dürrmenz.

Works

  • Home book Sarata 1822-1940. Mühlacker, 1979
  • Village life in Bessarabia throughout the year. Mühlacker, 1988
  • The emigrants from the city of Mühlacker 1577-1952 as reflected in the history of emigration to Württemberg. Mühlacker, 1986

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ family archives Fieß, birth register Sarata 1900-1910, 19/1910
personal data
SURNAME Fieß, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bessarabian German teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarata , Bessarabia
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2001
Place of death Mühlacker