Ferdinand Kruger

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Ferdinand Krüger, before 1913
Gravestone in a gravestone collection at the Evangelical Cemetery in Hattingen .

Ferdinand Krüger (born October 27, 1843 in Beckum / Westphalia, † February 8, 1915 in Bredeney near Essen ) was a secret medical councilor and Westphalian dialect poet (Low German).

Life

Ferdinand Krüger was the son of District Secretary Ferdinand August Krüger. After his father's death, his mother and her children moved to Ahlen in 1849 . Ferdinand Krüger attended the Laurentianum grammar school in Warendorf , which he had to leave in 1860 as a subpriman because he had been seen on the street at the time of the silent period . He switched to the Nepomucenum grammar school in Coesfeld , the “city of cow heads”, as he called it. After only two months he was transferred to another "crime" also from Nepomucenum relegated . So he passed the Abitur in July 1862 at the Petrinum grammar school in Brilon .

In the winter semester of 1862, Krüger began studying general at the University of Munich . Since 1862 he was a member of the Algovia fraternity , which later became the Arminia fraternity in Munich . In 1863 he switched to studying human medicine . He continued his studies in 1864 at the University of Greifswald. There he belonged since 1864 to the Greifswald fraternity Rugia . In the summer semester of 1866 he moved to the University of Würzburg and in the winter semester to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. There he was on 10 August 1867 of the thesis About Chronic lead poisoning Dr. med. PhD. In May 1868 he passed his medical state examination and then worked as a doctor in Wesel and Allendorf / Ruhr. As a general practitioner, he settled in Linden near Bochum in 1869 , where he was later appointed Knappschaft's doctor. Since 1885 he was the first director of the local St. Josefs Hospital . In 1901 he was appointed to the Medical Council and in 1910 to the Secret Medical Council.

Krüger married Therese Seyfried on August 7, 1869, with whom he had four daughters. After Therese's death, he remarried in August 1881 and had two other daughters. After a short stay in Berlin-Dahlem , he spent his retirement, which began in July 1911, in Bredeney near Essen, where he died on February 8, 1915.

A forest path is named after him. There is also a boulder with the note: "Krüger-Blick". A street in Bochum-Linden is named after him. Near the old fortified tower in Beckum you will find an inconspicuous boulder with the profile of Ferdinand Krüger and the inscription: “Ferdinand Krüger. The local poet was born on October 27th, 1843 in Beckum and died on February 8th, 1915 in Bredeney ”. In the town hall of Beckum there is still a "Krüger-Stube".

A stock of Kruger's writings is the District Archives of Warendorf .

Works (selection)

  • Rugge weighs. Told in Low German from Westphalian peasant life. Brunn, Münster 1882.
  • Hempelmann's smithy. A Westphalian novel from the "good old days" in Munsterland-Low German. 3 volumes. Lenz, Leipzig 1893 f.
  • The vote. Acting in 5 acts. Schmidt, Brandenburg / Leipzig 1903
  • Witte Liljen and other stories by F. Krüger. Fredebeul and Koenen, Essen 1909.
  • Westphalian folk tales. without year.

literature

  • Reinhard Pilkmann-Pohl: Friedrich Krüger. In: Yearbook: 3 - 1987, 4 - 1988, 5 - 1989 of the Augustin Wibbelt Society. Münster, 1987 (pp. 30-46), 1988 (pp. 65-83), 1989 (pp. 51-69).
  • H. Thieheuer: Ferdinand Krüger, his life and his work. Dissertation, Münster 1922.
  • W. Gottschalk: Investigations into Ferdinand Krüger's novels. Dissertation at the University of Greifswald , Halle / Saale 1933.
  • Max Ibing: The Westphalian and Bochum poet Dr. Ferdinand Kruger. In: Bochumer Heimatbuch, No. 6, 1954. ( online )
  • Reinhard Pilkmann:  Krüger, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 100 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 423-424.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Rolf Hartmann: "Second degree relegated". Ferdinand Krüger as a primary student in Warendorf. In: Warendorfer Schriften , vol. 19/20 (1989/1990), pp. 296–303, here p. 298.
  2. Rolf Hartmann: "Second degree relegated". Ferdinand Krüger as a primary student in Warendorf. In: Warendorfer Schriften , vol. 19/20 (1989/1990), pp. 296–303, here p. 301.
  3. Rolf Hartmann: "Second degree relegated". Ferdinand Krüger as a primary student in Warendorf . In: Warendorfer Schriften , vol. 19/20 (1989/1990), pp. 296–303, here p. 302.
  4. Rolf Hartmann: "Second degree relegated". Ferdinand Krüger as a primary student in Warendorf . In: Warendorfer Schriften , vol. 19/20 (1989/1990), pp. 296–303, here p. 303.
  5. Westfälische Dichterstraßen, III. Haus Nottbeck, ten literary bike rides around Haus Nottbeck. Edited by Prof. Dr. Walter Gödden, texts by Ulrich Straeter, illustrations by Ilse Straeter, Radtouren Karl Averdung, Ardey-Verlag Münster, 2002/2007, p. 43 ff.
  6. Kreisarchiv Warendorf  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archive.nrw.de