Diederich Heinrich Schrader

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Diederich Heinrich Schrader (born April 20, 1801 in Hanover ; † April 4, 1847 there ) was swimming master at the cadet institute in Hanover and saved 560 lives from drowning in the Ihme during his service .

Life

Lifeguard - Schrader - Monument in Hanover

Diederich Heinrich Schrader was the son of the tambour in the guard regiment and bathing attendant Heinrich Schrader from Rössing . From 1819 he worked as a bathing supervisor at one of the river bathing establishments of the Ihme in the Ohewiesen in the south of Hanover (near the former New Gate), of which there were four in this area in the 19th century (military baths, Schröders bathing establishments, municipal open-air swimming pools and just the Schrader bathing establishment). Here he is said to have saved 560 people from drowning during his almost 30 years of service.

After his death in 1849 a memorial was erected on today's Waterloostrasse (corner of Bruchmeisterallee, across from the Lower Saxony State Library) to commemorate him. The inscription on the obelisk reads: "With this monument the people honor the professional loyalty of one of their fellow citizens. - DLX (560) people owe him their rescue from danger of death." The Hanoverian archivist and historian Georg Schnath (1898–1989) describes in his memoirs "Das alten Haus" (see below literature) the impact of Schrader into his childhood and youth and corrects a piece of 'hero history' when he writes about Schrader: "Schrader, ... whose simple memorial at the New Gate opposite the War School praises the fact that he saved 560 people from drowning - but not that he used to give each and every one of them a good beating as a warning lesson! " And the military doctor Louis Stromeyer (1804–1876) reports in his memoirs: "I was now learning to swim very eagerly, the famous lifeguard Schrader was my teacher. He saved the lives of over 500 drowning people, the grateful citizens erected a monument for him on the way to the bathing area. I have often thought to myself that you'd rather have become a lifeguard than a doctor! "

The Schrader pool attendants continued in Hanover. Diederich Heinrich Schrader's nephew Alfred Schrader was the supervisor of the municipal bathing area on the Ihme until his death in 1901 .

literature

  • Helmut Zimmermann: Life pictures from seven centuries . [Vol. 1.] Hanover: Harenberg 1983, pp. 84-85, ISBN 3-89042-002-8
  • Helmut Zimmermann: A train through the Leinetal . Essen: Pomp & Sobkowiak 1987, pp. 102-103 (You bathed with Schrader, Schöder and "Flöhchen"). ISBN 3-922693-20-2
  • Stefan Nielsen: Is there water for washing? River baths in Hanover in the 19th century . In: Sport in Hanover. From the foundation of the city until today . Ed .: Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, Hoya. Göttingen: Verlag Werkstatt 1991, pp. 55–59. ISBN 3-923478-56-9
  • Dirk Böttcher in: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 322.
  • Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer: Memories of a German Doctor . Hanover: Rümpler 1875, vol. 1, p. 46.
  • Georg Schnath: The old house. Memories of a Hanoverian youth 1898-1916 . Hanover: Hahn 1998. (Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. 118), ISBN 3-7752-5828-0 , (in the chapter p. 130–144: Von Grün und Gärten allerlei , p. 141f .: about pool attendant Schrader)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: A train through the Leinetal. Essen: Pomp & Sobkowiak 1987, p. 102
  2. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: A train through the Leinetal. Essen: Pomp & Sobkowiak 1987, p. 102
personal data
SURNAME Schrader, Diederich Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swimming master of the cadet institute in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1847
Place of death Hanover