Ernst August Wiebold

Ernst August Wiebold (born September 12, 1843 in Talge near Bersenbrück , † 1942 in Osnabrück ) was a sexton , teacher, cantor and organist .

biography

Ernst August Wiebold was born as the son of a teacher in Talge. He received his teacher training at the teachers' seminar in Osnabrück under the seminar director Johann Heinrich Schüren . He first worked as a junior teacher in Settrup. In 1865 at the age of 23 he became a teacher in what would later become the elementary school in Neuenkirchen, as well as a cantor and sexton of the Protestant St. Christophorus Church in Neuenkirchen. He was the last to combine the office combination consisting of cantor, sexton and teacher in one person in Neuenkirchen. In addition, he held the office of organist, which he only gave up in his 85th year.

St. Christophorus Church in Melle-Neuenkirchen

In 1878 he became the first teacher at the cantor school in Neuenkirchen. This Protestant denominational school of the Neuenkirchen community was the predecessor school for the later elementary school. In 1872 the cantor school was merged with the also Protestant pastor school to form a primary school. August Wiebold became the main teacher and later the principal of this six-class school. In 1890 600 students were accommodated there. Wiebold completed a career of 59 years and retired at the age of 78.

He was particularly remembered for his modern pedagogical standards, e.g. B. loathed the corporal punishment customary at the time. School lessons took place in the choir next to the Christophorus Church. After the great fire in Neuenkirchen in 1883, which also affected the school, he campaigned for the construction of a new school, which he managed until his retirement in 1921. This school building has since been demolished. In 1953 the current elementary school was built in Neuenkirchen and was named Kantor-Wiebold-Schule .

In addition, Wiebold campaigned for the community life of Neuenkirchen and thereby shaped the community. He was the founder of a choir , the local church choir and co-founder of the trombone choir of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Neuenkirchen. He was also the long-time secretary of the agricultural association. One year after he gave up his position as organist, he moved to his children in Osnabrück in 1929 at the age of 86, where he lived until his death at the age of 99. In 1943 he was buried at his own request in the cemetery in Neuenkirchen (Melle) .

In his professional life, Ernst August Wiebold accompanied the development of a school organization that was still strongly linked to the church in terms of organization and content to the current state-organized school system and also shaped his community culturally.

The inscriptions on the ribbons of the primary school building, which was built in 1953 and named after him, illustrate the attitude of August Wiebold. There you can read in the gable:

“Glory to God on high” and below: “In the children lies the future, in the children later salvation. What we hope and strive for: you may get it ”.

A further description of the character of Wiebold becomes clear in a report from 1870 by the teacher seminar director Schüren from Osnabrück, who was inspector of the entire school system at that time. There it says:

“The schoolteacher Wiebold zu Neuenkirchen asked me to give me a certificate about his life in office. I like to write it. What I hoped six years ago from the young man who was leaving the seminary, the man has fulfilled. Wiebold knows what he wants and - he wants what he should. At school - with the little ones, with the big ones - he worked with skill and gratifying success, but outside of school he led his walk in the fear of God for the glory of God. - He will not lack the blessing of God. "

Awards

• In 1953 the school in Neuenkirchen was named Kantor-Wiebold-Schule .

literature

• Gerhard Stechmann: Ernst August Wiebold, a gifted teacher and promoter of culture. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch Osnabrücker Land 2013 , pp. 232–234, ISBN 978-3-941611-13-9 .
• Wilhelm Fredemann: Grönenberger Heimathefte 8 - Neuenkirchen. Melle 1961, p. 35ff.
• Fritz Klawa: From the clan to the integrated community Neuenkirchen In. Neuenkirchen Past and Present , pp. 77–81, editor: Ortsrat Neuenkirchen, 1983

Individual evidence

• 850 years of Neuenkirchen. Festschrift. Neuenkirchen 2010, chapter: The school system p. 62.
• 100 years of Christophorus Church Chronicle of the parish of Neuenkirchen. 1987, p. 43 and p. 97.
• 300 years of schools in Neuenkirchen. Neuenkirchen 1971, p. 11.
• Through a hundred years To the centenary of the local people's association, Neuenkirchen Agricultural Association. Neuenkirchen 1968, p. 7.
• The Grönegau past and present. Melle 1961, pp. 229 and 231.
• Wilhelm Knigge: Teacher training in Grönegau - the former preparation institute in Melle. In: The Grönegau. Meller Jahrbuch 6 , 1988, pp. 72-73, ISBN 3-88368-142-3 .

Web links

• Kantor Wiebold School