Christian Schneehagen

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Memorial plaque on Christian-Schneehagen-Weg

Christian Schneehagen , called Christel (born December 25, 1891 in Barsinghausen , † April 25, 1918 in Bailleul (North) , buried in Steenwerck ) was a German student and officer.

Life

Christian Schneehagen was the son of a master bookbinder in Barsinghausen. He joined the Wandervogel movement early on. After graduating from high school, he studied at the University of Göttingen . Here he was one of the co-founders of the German Academic Freischar .

In 1913 he was one of the idea givers and organizers for the First Freideutschen Jugendtag . He recommended the Hoher Meissner as the place to meet. A first preparation meeting took place at Whitsun 1913 in Jena. 13 federations took part in this meeting and here the name, place and general course of the festival were determined. The name “Freideutscher Jugendtag” is based on a suggestion by Urbachanten Friedrich Wilhelm Fulda, who is responsible for the Wandervogel guide magazine. The proposals to go to Leipzig after the event and to hold a “culture festival” in Weimar or Jena beforehand were rejected in favor of the “nature festival” on the Meißner.

The first appeal in the summer of 1913 appeared in the Wandervogel Führerzeitung (issue 7, 1913) and was signed by Knud Ahlborn on behalf of the German Academic Freischarians. The second call appeared a short time later in the Gaublatt "Nordmark" of the Wandervogel e. V. (Issue 4, 1913) and was signed for the first time by the organizing associations. Christian Schneehagen was named as the festival director.

Christian Schneehagen was a lieutenant in the reserve. He fell in 1918 and was buried in the German military cemetery in Steenwerck.

memory

The hiking trail between the Hohe Meißner and the Ludwigstein youth castle is named after Christian Schneehagen . A room in the castle bears his name.

Works

  • with Lotte Frucht: Our clothes: suggestions for new men's and women's costumes; For the Free German Youth Day. Hamburg: Hall 1913
  • with Gustav Mittelstraß (ed.): Free German Youth Day 1913: speeches. Hamburg: Hall 1913

literature

  • Hinrich Jantzen: names and works: biographies and contributions to the sociology of the youth movement. Volume 1, Frankfurt am Main: DIPA 1972 ISBN 3-7638-0251-7 , pp. 263-268

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfried Mogge, Jürgen Reulecke: Hoher Meißner 1913 - The First Freideutsche Youth Day in documents, interpretations and pictures. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 5. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8723-7 , pp. 42–45
  2. ^ After searching for graves online , Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
  3. ↑ Schneehagenweg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 20, 2014 ; accessed on August 8, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burgludwigstein.de
  4. ↑ Snow Hag room. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 9, 2013 ; accessed on August 8, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burgludwigstein.de
personal data
SURNAME Schneehagen, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Snow Hag, Christel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German student and officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Barsinghausen
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1918
Place of death Bailleul (North)