Diedrich Steilen

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Diedrich Steilen (born July 16, 1880 in Driftsethe ; † May 9, 1961 in Bremen ) was a German educator , local researcher and co-founder of the Vegesack and Surroundings Home Society .

biography

Steilen came from a farming family. He completed the teachers' seminar in Northeim by 1902 and then became an elementary school teacher from 1902 to 1904 in Einbeck , from 1904 to 1920 in Vegesack and from 1920 to 1948 in Bremen.

In addition to his job, he had dedicated himself to homeland care, which is why he founded the Heimatverein for Vegesack, Blumenthal and the surrounding area in 1911 with like-minded people . The local history museum, which was also founded at that time, is now located in Schönebeck Palace in Bremen-Vegesack . He was not a scientist but a good organizer for the issue of homeland security as a member and from 1940 to 1961 chairman of the Lower Saxon Folk Society , member and honorary member of the Stader History and Homeland Society and the Men from Morgenstern Society in Bremerhaven .

Steilen also took care of the local supplement Die Niederweser of the Norddeutsche Volkszeitung , which was founded by Johann Friedrich Rohr . He worked with the Quickborn-Hefte magazine and published a large number of smaller and larger writings on the topic of homeland care in the homeland magazines. In 1926 he wrote the history of the Bremen port city of Vegesack . In 1934 he was co-editor of the 4th edition of the Buchenau (named after Franz Buchenau ) for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . In 1940 he and Hinrich Knittermeyer published the series Bremen, Lebenskreis einer Hansestadt , a highly politically colored local history.

Honors

Works

  • Church in Vegesack , Vegesack (1921)
  • History of the Bremen port city of Vegesack , Vegesack o. J. (1926)
  • Meetings Högt sik Verlag Finck (1949)
  • The Lower Saxony village as a community (around 1900) Verlag Niedersächs. Heimatbund (1953)
  • The golden Reif Verlag Vegesacker Heimatverein (1956)
  • Becoming and growing the idea of ​​home in Lower Saxony Lower Saxony. Heimatbund; 2nd edition (1958)
  • North German tomb art by Arthur Geist-Verlag, Bremen (1938)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Steilen, Diedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North German home nurse
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Drift the
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1961
Place of death Bremen