Erik Thomson (writer)

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Erik Thomson (born February 12, 1915 in Dorpat , Estonia Governorate , † December 12, 1990 in Lübeck ) was a Baltic German farmer and writer.

Life

Thomson attended the Knights and Cathedral School in Reval from 1924 to 1933 . After graduating from high school, he studied agriculture at the University of Dorpat until 1935. He joined the Baltic German Corps Neobaltia. He dropped out of studies without a degree. At the Wardes estate in Sõmeru of the former commander of the Baltic regiment , Colonel a. D. Constantin von Weiß , and on the Oehrten estate, both located in Virumaa , he received practical agricultural training in 1936/37. These years were followed by the management of the remnants of the grandparents' property in the Jerwen district until 1941 . Thomson experienced the first Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940 . During the resettlement he left Estonia on March 1, 1941. He was involved in the Estonian Agricultural Association, the Estonian Literary Society, the Estonian Sea Yacht Club, the Reval Chamber Music Association, the Reval Philatelic Association and the Natural Research Association at the University of Dorpat .

In the Warthegau , where the Baltic Germans had settled, he managed the Gallwiese estate in the Welun district from 1942 to 1944 . Special achievements during this time in the field of horticulture were honored with a certificate of honor from the Reich Nutrition State. In December 1944 E. Thomson was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) at home . He was captured by the United States and Britain in 1945, but was released in early June 1945. Having settled in Gunzenhausen in Bavaria , he returned to the community. He was one of the founders of the home town index for Baltic Germans and in this context did a great job in reuniting families . The Aid Committee of Evangelical Lutheran Germans from Poland appointed him representative for the Central Franconian administrative region . When the Carl Schirren Society , which was banned during the Nazi era , was reactivated in 1949 , he took over the post of representative for the French and American zones . Hildebert Boehm appointed Thomson in 1951 as the first managing director of the Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft in Lüneburg. In the same year he also became an employee of the newly founded Nordostdeutschen Kulturwerk and the Ost-Akademie . Thomson gave up the management of the Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft in 1969 and ended his professional activity at the Nordostdeutsche Kulturwerk and the Ost-Akademie in 1978.

Thomson was married to Ingrid born on August 17, 1940. Stockmar, daughter of the pharmacist provisional Paul Stockmar in Sankt Simonis , Wierland. The marriage ended in divorce. Thomson's second marriage was on August 26, 1947 with Hildegard, nee. Götz, daughter of the Esslingen bakery owner Georg Götz.

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Thomson's first publications on ornithology , lepidopterology and agriculture appeared in Estonia . Some of his publications, books and translations from the Estonian language did not appear until after 1978. He sat on the board of the German-Estonian Association and the Advisory Board of the Baltic Society in Germany, the Estonian PEN Club , the Esslingen Artists' Guild , the Union of Free Estonian Journalists Stockholm), the Association of the Free Press (Munich), the Walter Flex Circle of Friends, the International Entomological Association and the German Research Center for Butterfly Migration. In his books he dealt with Paul Fleming , Eduard von Gebhardt , Hugo Hahn , Traugott Hahn , Werner Hasselblatt , Monika Hunnius and the Blackheads .

Publications

  • Baltic Bibliography 1945–1953. Directory of the independent publications by German-Baltic authors that appeared in the years 1945–53 and of the writings on the Baltic States and the Baltic States published in the same period . Lueneburg 1953.
  • Monika Hunnius: Paths of pain are paths of blessing . Stuttgart 1956.
  • Hugo Hahn - pioneer of the Herero mission and ancestor of a pastor family. For the 70th birthday of regional bishop i. R. Hugo Hahn on October 4, 1956 . Stuttgart 1956.
  • with Georg Baron Manteuffel-Szoege : Castles and manors in the Baltic States . Weidlich 1959.
  • with Aleksander Varma : The historical, political and legal foundations of the Free State of Estonia . 1960.
  • Paul Fleming: in all my deeds ... Stuttgart 1961.
  • with Hildegard Thomson: Traugott Hahn - a martyr of the Baltic Church . Giessen, Basel 1962.
  • with Hildegard Thomson: cathedrals, churches and monasteries in the Baltic States . Weidlich 1962.
  • Baltic heritage. Thirty-five contributions in reports and personal testimonials. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1964.
  • The big butterflies of Estonia . Rauschenbusch , Stollhamm 1967.
  • History of the cathedral school in Reval. 1319-1939 . Göttingen working group, Würzburg 1969.
  • The most beautiful. Posts on the old topic of young love . Buxheim 1972.
  • The Riga Blackheads Company and their silver treasure . Lueneburg 1974.
  • The Baltic Germans: Baltic people in the run-up to Europe . Vienna 1976.
  • I am telling you everything that happened on Easter Sunday . Buxheim 1979.
  • My 960 days in the "Reichsgau Wartheland" . Lueneburg 1985.
  • Werner Hasselblatt . Bonn 1990.
  • with Günter Krüger: Eduard von Gebhardt - life and work . Lueneburg 1991.
  • Baltic States - a memory, seen in 96 pictures . Würzburg 1990 (144 pictures, 2002).

Translations

Honors

  • Decoration of Honor in Gold of the Estonian National Fund (1965)
  • Gold Medal of Honor of the Estonian National Community in the Federal Republic of Germany (1968)
  • Georg Dehio Prize of the Esslingen Artists' Guild (1972)
  • Gold Medal of the Association of Displaced Persons (1975)
  • Order of the Estonian Red Cross 2nd Class (1980)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Philistine Association of Neobaltia (ed.): Album Neobaltorum 1879–1956 (1956)
  2. ↑ E. Thomson: Corps - a manor in Estonia through the ages . Lueneburg 1986
personal data
SURNAME Thomson, Erik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomson, Woldemar Erik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic horticulturist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat , Estonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1990
Place of death Lübeck