Edmund Lons

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Edmund Löns, around 1961

Edmund Löns (born May 29, 1880 in Deutsch Krone , † October 26, 1964 in Mettingen ) was a German forester and cynologist who was particularly known for breeding the Kleine Münsterländer . He is a younger brother of the poet Hermann Löns .

Life

Edmund Löns was born in Deutsch Krone on May 29, 1880, the 14 years younger brother of Hermann Löns. His father was the high school professor Friedrich Löns († 1908) from Westphalia, his mother Clara († 1896) came from the Cramer family of pharmacists from Paderborn. Edmund was the eighth of a total of 14 children. The father's job led the family to East Prussia and Pomerania and finally to Münster , where Edmund Löns grew up. His early interest in nature, animals and hunting was significantly encouraged by Hermann Landois , the founder and director of the Westphalian Zoological Garden in Münster.

After leaving school, Löns began training as a forester. This activity eventually led him to Mecklenburg . During the First World War , after being wounded, he was sent to the border area between Poland and Russia to work in the Bialowies military forest management, which was headed by Georg Escherich . Since 1916 he was also a member of hunting organizations.

After the war he took on various temporary jobs and ended up in Burgsteinfurt and then in the Tecklenburger Land to Westerkappeln - Seeste , where he found a job. In January 1921 he moved with his wife Elisabeth, born Boer (* October 18, 1885 - July 18, 1947) to neighboring Mettingen , where he works as a forest and hunting manager for the Brenninkmeyer family . Georg Brenninkmeyer had a forester's house built for him on Ölmühlenweg in 1922. Löns lived there until 1958.

In the fall of 1958 Edmund Löns moved to Ladbergen to live with the Overbeck farmers who ran an inn. His connection to Ladbergen stemmed from the veneration there for his brother Hermann. As early as 1936, Löns admirer August Lagemann from Münster, who was born in Ladbergen, and his brother Otto Lagemann erected a memorial stone for the heath poet in Ladberger “Sand” on the north-eastern outskirts. This gave rise to the name "Lönsheide" for this area. Although his brother had never been there, Edmund Löns felt very close to him. After a local history museum was established in Lönsheide in 1951, Löns donated 25 horns and antlers as well as the head of a boar that Hermann Löns had killed as a student in 1891. In 1960 he also donated the third guest book for the Heimatmuseum . The Ladbergen homeland association made Edmund Löns an honorary member.

When the inn in Overbeck was given up, Löns moved to Ibbenbüren, where he lived for a short time until he fell ill. The doctor Theodor Kersting brought Edmund Löns back to Mettingen, where he died in St. Elisabeth Hospital on October 26, 1964 after a short period of suffering. He found his final resting place in the old cemetery of the Tüötten community in the grave where his wife had been buried 17 years earlier.

Cynologist

Edmund Löns with Günter Schassek in front of Löns' kennel with his last litter

Löns is best known as a cynologist. During the First World War he got to know the little Münsterländer , whom he called "Heidewachtel". In Seeste he wrote the book Heidewachtel published in 1922 . Small Munsterlander pointing dog or spy. Its history, training and leadership . With this and his energetic commitment to this breed of dog, Löns soon became known in the hunter and cynologist circles. He founded the association "Deutscher Heidewachtelclub" because the "Verein Kleine Münsterländer Pointing Dogs" refused to enter its brown-gray dogs in the stud book. After the forced unification of the two clubs during the Nazi era , there was another break in 1945: Löns re-established the Heidewachtel Club because dogs were entered in the stud book without proof of parentage. In 1961 the clubs reunited to form the Association for Small Munsterland Pointing Dogs, which still exists today .

One of Löns' best known dogs was the bitch "Kesselflickers Flora", with whom he achieved great success in breeding. His kennel was internationally known among experts - the breeder sent his dogs to Sweden and the Soviet Union as well as to South and North America . In addition to Kleine Münsterländer, Löns also bred dachshunds .

Löns, who had a profound humanistic education, not only often quoted Homer , but also translated Xenophon's Kynegetikos ( On Hunting - Training of Hunting Dogs ) into German. Occasionally he also demonstrated his artistic talent as a painter. Some of his pictures have been preserved.

Places of remembrance

Grave of Elisabeth and Edmund Löns in the old cemetery in Mettingen (June 2008)

Today in Mettingen his former house on Ölmühlenweg and a boulder on his grave that has been preserved and restored with dignity reminds of Edmund Löns. It is not known who regularly tends the grave. At the end of 2009 it became known that the Mettingen community had not yet decided whether the grave should be completely preserved in the course of the relocation of the cemetery. The Federal Association for Small Munsterlanders Pointing Dogs (KLM) then spoke out in favor of an “honor grave regulation” due to the cultural and historical significance of Löns for Mettingen, and offered financial support for this. In 2010 the gravestone of Edmund Löns was restored by a specialist company, the costs of which were paid for by the KLM Association. The members of the association refused to provide long-term care of the grave site because of the costs associated with it, which were too high for them. In June 2012 it was announced that the tombstone would get a new place.

literature

  • Edmund Löns: Heidewachtel. Small Munsterlander pointing dog or spy. Its history, training and leadership . (New edition.) Edition Walter Schwartz in Verlag J. Neumann-Neudamm, Melsungen 2007, 112 pp., ISBN 978-3-7888-1173-0 or ISBN 3-7888-1173-0 (with a short biography on p. 108)
  • Vera Konermann: “Kesselflickers Flora” awakens passion in the forester . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from January 13, 2007 ( online version ( Memento from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the Westline local archive)
  • Vera Konermann: “Förster's Papa” had liver sausage bread. Memories of the dog breeder Edmund Löns . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from April 14, 2007

Web links

Commons : Edmund Löns  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e N.N .: Edmund Löns moved to Ladbergen. A hunter by vocation - friend of the game and nature . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from September 26, 1958
  2. ↑ a b Edmund Löns: Heidewachtel. Small Munsterlander pointing dog or spy. Its history, training and leadership . (New edition.) Edition Walter Schwartz published by J. Neumann-Neudamm, Melsungen 2007, biography p. 108
  3. ↑ The German Hunting Protection Association (DJV) awarded him the Golden Treuenadel in 1956 for 40 years of membership; see. NN: Honor for forester Edmund Löns . Note in: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from April 26, 1956
  4. ↑ On the other hand, it is wrong that Clemens Brenninkmeyer had the forester's lodge built for Löns, an indication of the kind found in Hubert Rickelmann : Mettingen im Wandel der Zeiten . Second improved edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 1978, ISBN 3-506-77222-8 , p. 190, finds.
  5. ↑ Information on Lönsheide on the website of the municipality of Ladbergen ; Retrieved September 27, 2011
  6. ↑ lnw: Trophy of Hermann Lons . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from September 18, 1958
  7. ↑ NN: Lönsheide, a popular destination. Fritz Stille donated the fourth guest book for the Ladberger Heimatmuseum . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from May 24, 1962
  8. ↑ Vera Konermann: At “Förster's Papa” there was liver sausage bread. Memories of the dog breeder Edmund Löns . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from April 14, 2007
  9. ↑ Vera Konermann: "Kesselflickers Flora" awakens the passion in the forester . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from January 13, 2007 ( online version ( Memento from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ))
  10. ↑ The former forester's house as a film set ; Retrieved November 7, 2009
  11. ↑ a b page no longer available , search in web archives: Oliver Langemeyer: Commitment to preserving the grave site of Edmund Löns in Mettingen . In: 'Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from October 23, 2009 (online version; accessed on November 7, 2009)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ivz-online.de
  12. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Oliver Langemeyer: Löns-Grab in Mettingen: Association for Pointing Dogs appalled by plans . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from October 29, 2009 (online version; accessed on November 7, 2009)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ivz-online.de
  13. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Oliver Langemeyer: Restoration: Fresh writing for Löns tombstone in Mettingen . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung of May 10, 2010 (online version; accessed on October 8, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ivz-online.de
  14. ↑ Edmund Löns' tombstone gets a new place . In: Online version of Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from June 1, 2012 (headline available without registration, accessed on October 12, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Lons, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester, hunter and cynologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH German crown
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1964
Place of death Mettingen