Erik von Schmiterlöw
Erik von Schmiterlöw (born July 25, 1882 in Franzburg ; † May 29, 1964 ) was a German local researcher and collector.
Erik von Schmiterlöw came from a traditional family that provided several mayors and senators in Stralsund ( Nikolaus Smiterlow ) and Greifswald in the 15th and 16th centuries , was ennobled while Pomerania was part of the Kingdom of Sweden , but later became impoverished. His parents were farmers . He attended the grammar school in Greifswald.
At the age of ten he began to occupy himself with prehistory , history , folklore , art and the natural sciences and collected objects. In 1895 he joined the Society for Pomeranian History, Archeology and Art . Family research was also one of his interests later . In 1935 he became a volunteer caretaker of the cultural and historical soil antiquities for the southern part of the Franzburg-Barth district . From then on, he gave some of his new finds to the Szczecin Provincial Museum .
In 1946 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany .
He built up a collection of objects and documents, mainly from the Franzburg- Barth area . The von Schmiterlöwschen collection also includes documents from the Rügen area . As early as the 1930s, the collection comprised over 2,000 items and, when he died, took up all the rooms in the two houses of the von Schmiterlöw family in Franzburg.
After Erik von Schmiterlöw's death, his son Bertram von Schmiterlöw took over the collection in 1964 and, with the help of Hans-Erich Runge, Heinz Bartels, Herbert Manske and Uwe Hein, set up a publicly accessible private museum for the collection, which until then had been more like a magazine. In 2002 the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald took over most of the collection; Parts of the anthropological finds were transferred to the State Office for Land Monument Preservation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
literature
- Peter Herfert : Erik von Schmiterlöw. In: Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook . Volume 6, VEB Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1966
- Stefan Fassbinder : The archaeological objects of the Schmiterlöw collection from Franzburg, district of North Western Pomerania. In: Archeology and History in the Baltic Sea Region , Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, 2005, ISSN 1863-0855 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmiterlöw, Erik von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local researcher and collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Franzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1964 |