Eberhard Matthes

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Paul Wilhelm Eberhard Matthes (born January 7, 1915 in Lipsa ; † November 16, 1998 ) was a German teacher , local history researcher and monument conservator . In 1995 he was made an honorary citizen of the southern Brandenburg city ​​of Elsterwerda .

Life

The small gallery "Hans Nadler" with Eulenspiegel fountain in Elsterwerda.

Matthes was born in 1915 as the youngest of five children of the landlord Erich Matthes and his wife Hedwig in Lipsa in what is now the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district. From 1921 he first attended school in neighboring Lindenau and later switched to the Elsterwerda secondary school . On March 23, he began his training as a soldier in Löbau, Saxony . In the course of the Second World War , Matthes was taken prisoner by the Americans on August 6, 1944 and later with stays in the Sachsenhausen special camp and in the Soviet Union in Russian custody, from which he was released in early 1949. After lengthy medical treatment, he initially trained as a career counselor at home, which was followed by training as a teacher for German language and literature from January 1, 1950 to July 21, 1954. In this profession he worked at schools in Gröditz and Elsterwerda until 1966. In 1980, Matthes became the honorary director of the newly created small gallery "Hans Nadler" in Elsterwerda, after having fought for years as a monument conservationist to preserve the listed half-timbered house. Eberhard Matthes remained in this position until 1987. In 1986 he became the city archivist and local chronicle.

Because of his services to the city of Elsterwerda, Matthes was granted honorary citizenship in January 1995.

Fonts

  • with Werner Galle: Elsterwerda in old views . 2nd edition, European Library, Zaltbommel (Netherlands) 1993, ISBN 90-288-5344-8 .
  • The Agricultural Winter School Elsterwerda. In: Home calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district , 1993, pp. 150–154.
  • 100 years of Elfa. In: Home calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district and the Mückenberger Ländchen , 1995, pp. 217–220.

literature

  • Hans Nadler : The city archivist of Elsterwerda . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. Bad Liebenwerda (Ed.): Local calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda, the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg . Bad Liebenwerda 1997, p. 274-276 .
  • BM: A man to whom Elsterwerda owes a lot . In: Elsterwerdaer Anzeiger . November 1998, p. 2 .
personal data
SURNAME Matthes, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthes, Paul Wilhelm Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, local researcher and monument conservator, honorary citizen of Elsterwerda
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Lipsa
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1998