Eugene Nägele

This article deals with the conservationist, educator and local researcher Eugen Nägele. For the politician of the same name, see Eugen Nägele (politician) .

Eugen Nägele (born February 10, 1856 in Murrhardt ; † December 16, 1937 in Tübingen ) was a German conservationist , educator and local researcher .

Live and act

Eugen Nägele was the son of Ferdinand Nägele , master locksmith, foundation curator and later revolutionary and member of parliament in Frankfurt's Paulskirche in 1848 , and his wife Luise, née Kapp. He attended the Latin school in Murrhardt and in 1870 switched to the Urach Evangelical Theological Seminary . As a student, he became a member of the Roigel Royal Society in Tübingen in 1874 . From 1874 to 1878 he studied classical philology and philosophy in the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Tübingen . At the age of twenty he wrote a city and hiking guide for Tübingen and its surroundings . In 1879 he started his first job at the Esslinger Gymnasium. King Karl I of Württemberg made him head of the Latin school in Waiblingen in 1881 . From 1884 he held the post of rector of the grammar school in Geislingen an der Steige with the title of professor . From 1889 to 1919 Nägele was a grammar school professor in Tübingen, from 1896-1906 he was the director of the girls' college .

In 1895, the Reich Limes Commission appointed him route commissioner on Württemberg soil. A year later he excavated the Waldmössingen fort on their behalf . He was one of the founding members of the Swabian Alb Association (SAV) in 1888/1889 . From 1890 to 1913 he was its deputy chairman and from 1913 to 1933 chairman. From 1889 to 1930 he was the first editor of the " Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein ". In 1898 he founded the magazine " Tübinger Blätter ", where he worked as an editor until 1928.

Eugen Nägele laying the foundation stone of the “House of Youth” on October 20, 1935.

In 1897, together with the Württemberg Black Forest Association, he founded the Swabian Youth Hostel Association, a forerunner of the German Youth Hostel Association , and assumed its chairmanship. From 1900 he was significantly involved in the creation of an accommodation network for hikers and youth groups in the Association of German Tourist Associations . In this position, on October 20, 1935 - surrounded by the local NSDAP officials - he walled the foundation stone of the "House of Youth" - the youth hostel - a showpiece of the Tübingen NSDAP. Nägele was not happy that the National Socialists took possession of his work, but he could not escape their expectations.

Nägele was a member of the Württemberg state parliament of the People's Party from 1907 to 1912 and from 1914 to 1918.

Nägele was a supporter of the naturalist Robert Gradmann and was in contact with the writer Weinland , the creator of Rulaman , and other greats of his time. On December 7, 1937, Nägele suffered a femoral neck fracture in an accident and was admitted to the surgical clinic in Tübingen. There he fell ill with severe bilateral pneumonia , from which he died on the evening of December 16, 1937. Eugen Nägele was buried in Tübingen.

Services

Eugen Nägele still set valid standards in the area of ​​local history / local research and youth hostels. As a local researcher, he was instrumental in researching the Celtic Heuneburg , the Roman Limes , the Roman roads and in the reconstruction of the Hohenstaufen Chapel. His work on Schubart , Uhland and Württemberg folklore was groundbreaking. His publications in the papers of the Swabian Alb Association are a rich source for studying history and nature in Württemberg .

Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Honors

• In 1926 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen ( Dr. phil. H. C. ) On his 70th birthday .
• 1926 honorary citizen of Murrhardt
• 1928 honorary citizen of Onstmettingen
• Naming of the Albverein hiking home Nägelehaus in Onstmettingen
• Name of the youth hostel Eugen Nägele in Murrhardt
• Eugen-Nägele-Strasse in Freudenstadt
• Nägelestrasse in Fellbach
• Nägelestrasse in Stuttgart (1938)
• Nägelestrasse in Tübingen, near his last house

Fonts (selection)

• The Waldmössingen fort in the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire , Section B, Vol. 5.2, 61 b. Petters, Heidelberg 1897.
• Alblimes. A contribution to Roman-Germanic research , Verlag des Schwäbischer Albverein , Tübingen 1910.
• Grinario. The Roman fort near Köngen , publishing house of the Swabian Alb Association, Tübingen 1911.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ August 13, 1888 is considered to be the hour of birth of the Swabian Alb Association. On May 5, 1889, the Albverein was founded from a loose association of beautification associations on the Albtrauf .
2. ↑ 125 years of hiking and more , ed. from the German Hiking Association. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-221-5 , p. 22f.
3. ^ "Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association", No. 1, January 1938.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 104-105.
• Peter Goessler : Professor Eugen Nägele: his life and work . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1947.
• Franz Menges:  Nägele, Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 698 ( digitized version ).
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 598 .

Web links

Commons : Eugen Nägele  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Eugen Nägele in the catalog of the German National Library