Edmund Schiefeling
Edmund Schiefeling (born January 19, 1882 in Engelskirchen ; † March 14, 1947 ibid) was a German newspaper publisher , journalist and mayor of Engelskirchen.
Life
Edmund Schiefeling was born in 1882. He grew up in Engelskirchen, attended elementary school and then did a commercial apprenticeship at the Offermann wood wool factory. After two years he found a job in a small train office. From the time his father founded a printing company, he worked in its operation. First, he took over the ,, small accounting "of the composing room and later became a journalist and editor of the newspaper Bergische guard in publishing. As an opponent of Nazism threatened, he fled in the late 1930s, first in the Rhineland and later to Holland . After his temporary return After Engelskirchen he was imprisoned in five prisons within seven months; first in Klingelpütz , later in the Hochkreuz camp and in the Kemna concentration camp .
Schiefeling suffered a stroke on March 10, 1947 during a meeting of the local council, of which he died four days later. At his funeral on March 18, 1947 in the community cemetery, representatives of the British military government from Cologne and Bergisch Gladbach attended, along with many people from Engelskirchen .
He was married and had five children
Services
From November 1, 1912 he was a journalist and editor of the newspaper Bergische Wacht , after the death of his father from 1917 also its editor.
The newspaper founded by his father, Josef Schiefeling, in 1907 should initially be called "Tremonia". Due to the liberal political orientation, however, Josef Schiefeling decided to call it "Bergische Wacht". In 1917 the Schiefeling-Verlag took over the Overather printing company and from then on published the Overather Volksblatt as a side edition of the Bergische Wacht . The newspaper appeared as a local edition also as a Mucher Tageblatt , three days a week until 1913, then six times a week.
Since the newspaper was considered critical of the system, Edmund Schiefeling was harassed several times. In 1916, for example, after criticism from District Administrator Friedrich Knoll , the newspaper had to be filled with empty spaces and was no longer published for a while, but was meanwhile distributed as the “Lindlarer Zeitung” with the same content.
The newspaper stuck to its line. About the first major election event of the prominent National Socialist Robert Ley in Engelskirchen in 1929, which ended in a battle in a hall with opponents of the NSDAP, Schiefeling published a critical report under the heading: “The circus of Dr. Ley ".
In the anniversary edition of the Bergische Wacht 1932 there was the report "From the fight with the dragon censorship". Among other things, he criticized the fact that, although the newspaper was strictly forbidden to report on the food shortage in Germany, it should be forced to print a ready-made report on '' Famine in England ''.
At the end of the 1930s, Schiefeling received several warnings that a group of thugs from the SA was planning to raid the printing and publishing house and that his life was in danger. Edmund Schiefeling fled to Holland with his brother Josef. On his return he was arrested several times. In 1941 the newspaper had to stop selling. In March 1945 Schiefeling documented the consequences of the bombing of Engelskirche with a series of photos that he took immediately after the attacks.
After the end of the Second World War , he was appointed by the occupying power on January 5, 1946, as an alderman of the Engelskirchen office. In October 1946, the representatives of the office and community elected him to succeed Heinrich Raskin as mayor of Engelskirchen. Schiefeling was a member of the first provisional district executive of the CDU of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .
Honors
- Edmund-Schiefeling-Platz in the middle of Engelskirchen is a reminder of the former mayor of the community.
- On the occasion of the commemoration “70 years of bombing attacks in Engelskirchen”, the community opened an exhibition with photos by Edmund Schiefeling from March 1945.
Works
- as co-authors: Peter Opladen and Edmund Schiefeling: Engelskirchen im Aggertal , Engelskirchen 1951, with the collaboration of Josef Külheim
- as editor and publisher: Engelskirchen must rise again! , Schiefeling Verlag, Engelskirchen 1946
- from 1912 to 1941: in personal union journalist and editor, from 1917 also publisher of the daily newspaper Bergische Wacht
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Hesse: Engelskirchen in the 19th and 20th centuries. Engelskirchen 1985, p. 143
- ^ Josef Hesse: Engelskirchen in the 19th and 20th centuries. Engelskirchen 1985, pp. 169-170
- ↑ Bergische Wacht from November 1, 1912 First mention as editor of the newspaper. Website of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Retrieved November 22, 2014
- ^ A b Josef Hesse: Engelskirchen in the 19th and 20th centuries. Engelskirchen 1985, p. 172
- ^ Franz Becher: 900 years of Overath. Verlag Bücken & Sulzer, 2005, ISBN 3-936405-28-X , p. 49
- ^ Bergische Wacht title information from the University of Bonn. Retrieved December 8, 2014
- ↑ Edmund Schiefeling: The circus of Dr. Ley in the Bergische Wacht on September 19, 1929
- ↑ Bergische Wacht of March 19, 1932
- ^ Josef Hesse: Engelskirchen in the 19th and 20th centuries. Engelskirchen 1985, pp. 159-160
- ↑ 1st decade 1945 - 1954 website of the CDU Oberberg. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schiefeling, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German newspaper publisher, journalist and mayor of Engelskirchen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Engelskirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1947 |
| Place of death | Engelskirchen |