Enno Narten

Enno Narten (born April 6, 1889 in Oldenburg ; † January 10, 1973 in Hanover ) is one of the most important personalities of the early wandering bird and was instrumental in the acquisition and construction of the Ludwigstein youth castle .

Life

Enno Narten was the son of Hermann Narten and his wife Sophie nee Spehr. Enno Narten was an enthusiastic hiker from an early age, initially in the Alt-Wandervogel and later in the Wandervogel e. V. He came into contact with today's youth castle Ludwigstein in 1908 on a study excursion. At Hanstein Castle , his professor Hans Stille uttered the words with a view of the ruins of the Ludwigstein: "Narten, that would be something for you and your wandering bird, such an abandoned castle!"

Even if interest in the castle grew within the youth movement on the occasion of the Meißner meeting in October 1913 , the First World War put an end to more concrete projects. With reference to the Meißner meeting, a first call appeared between 1914 and 1918 under the heading “Call for the acquisition of Ludwigstein Castle in the Werratal b. Witzenhausen ".

On Christmas night 1914, Narten, together with other "field wandering birds" in Saint-Quentin in northern France, made the decision to acquire Ludwigstein Castle and expand it into a living memorial for the fallen migratory birds. However, this idea could only be implemented after the war. Like no other, Narten promoted the acquisition and reconstruction of Ludwigstein Castle. On April 4, 1920 he founded the “Association for the Acquisition and Preservation of Ludwigstein Castle”, which he also chaired. He held this office until 1925. In 1920 he married his wife Ilse Narten geb. Peine (1894–1974), with whom he had three children.

In 1927 he became Prussia's first district youth welfare officer in Zeitz and from 1929 headed a boys 'and apprentices' home in Leipzig for several years . When the association was re-established in 1946, he again took over its chairmanship. After the Second World War he worked as a youth care department. He campaigned against rearmament and the Vietnam War , was active in nature conservation and co-founded the Youth Red Cross in Lower Saxony . As in 1933, Narten was expelled from the SPD due to his campaign against rearmament. For the election of the Lower Saxony state parliament on April 19, 1959, Narten ran for the Bund der Deutschen party , whose main concern was the neutrality and reunification of Germany.

On the occasion of the 37th anniversary of Enno Narten's death, the foundation stone for the Enno Narten building was laid on January 10, 2010 at the Ludwigstein Youth Castle. The building was inaugurated on September 15, 2012 and, according to the builder, is the “largest straw bale house in the republic”. At the beginning of 2011, the project was named a UN Decade Project "Education for Sustainable Development" by UNESCO .

literature

• Wolfgang Koch, Wolfgang Koch jr .: The Ludwigstein as a youth castle . Editor: Hans-Jürgen Narten and Evangelical Church Community Oberrieden an der Werra, 1982

Web links

• Jugendburg Ludwigstein - Enno Narten
• Hannoversches Biografisches Lexikon, p. 267 f.
• Entry on Enno Narten in the family database of the Lower Saxony State Association for Family Studies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Illustrated Biographical Enno Nartens. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 25, 2012 ; Retrieved July 5, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Accessed in 1913 (PDF; 381 kB) Retrieved on July 5, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Money from the underpants . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1951 ( online ).
4. ↑ Ballot in constituency No. 4 (Hanover-Südost) , list position 8
5. ↑ Newspaper article "A Signal for the Region", HNA. Retrieved July 5, 2010 . 
6. ↑ The Third Ring. Retrieved July 5, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Newspaper article "UNESCO distinguishes Jugendburg", HNA. Retrieved March 1, 2011 .