Detlev Pape

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Detlev Pape (born July 23, 1909 in Axstedt ; † August 10, 1986 in Sulingen ) was a German archivist and local history researcher .

After graduating from high school in Osterholz in 1928, he studied at the University of Hamburg and passed the first teacher examination there in 1931. While he was waiting for a job, he was an assistant teacher at the vocational school in Nienburg . Finally he was hired as a junior teacher in Mecklenburg , where he passed the second teacher examination in Rostock in 1934 . He then took over the elementary school in Scharringhausen . During the war he was a lieutenant and became an American prisoner of war , from which he was released in August 1946 and immediately assigned to the elementary school in Dörpel . In 1954 he was transferred to Sulingen, where he also became vice-principal before he retired in 1974.

Pape had already written a paper on Axstedt during his student days. In 1959 he was appointed honorary city ​​archivist in Sulingen and is considered the father of the Sulingen city ​​archive . In addition, from 1968 to 1982 he was the conservationist for the old district of Sulingen. Here he researched the connection between monuments and local history, such as the Jewish cemetery in Barenburg . He wrote an abundance of articles in the four-volume Chronik von Stadt und Land Sulingen (1979-1984) and dealt with the lasting influence of the old families. He was also involved as a youth manager at TuS Sulingen . In 1985 he received the Medal of Honor of the City of Sulingen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 240 pages with added value: City publishes documentation "Sulingen - history and people" on . February 28, 2018
  2. ^ Detlev Pape: The Jewish cemetery in Barenburg. In: The history of the patch and the parish of Barenburg. Edited by Helmut Hark. Sulingen 1970, p. 164. February 28, 2018
  3. ↑ Detlev Pape: From the old Dencker family in Sulingen (1520-1930), in: Erich Plenge (Hrsg.): Chronik von Stadt und Land Sulingen (= Heimatkundliche Schriftenreihe, Vol. 3), Sulingen: Erich Plenge & Co., 1985, p. 159ff.
personal data
SURNAME Pape, Detlev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and local history researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Axstedt
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1986
Place of death Sulingen