Frank Teller

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Frank Teller (born November 9, 1965 in Steinheidel-Erlabrunn ; † December 4, 2016 ) was a German homeland researcher and monument conservator in Johanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge in the Free State of Saxony .

Life

Grave site in the Johanngeorgenstadt cemetery

Frank Teller came from a long-established family of mountain blacksmiths and was the son of local history researcher and monument conservator Christian Teller (1933–2008). After attending school in Johanngeorgenstadt, Teller completed vocational training as a toolmaker with a high school diploma. He then studied computer science at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt with a degree in engineering. Professionally, he worked for Tischler GmbH in Johanngeorgenstadt and from 2002 in the administration of the Teller car dealership.

Like his father, he began to be interested in regional and especially the mining history of Johanngeorgenstadt and the surrounding area in his free time in his early youth, around the 6th grade. He developed into an accomplished expert on the history of old and bismuth mining in the upper Ore Mountains . Until his death at the age of 51, Teller was a member of the board of directors of the Horse Goepel Johanngeorgenstadt eV association. The horse peg in Johanngeorgenstadt, which was demolished by the SDAG Wismut after the Second World War, was largely rebuilt on the initiative of his father.

Works

Historical orientation board in the sulfur works area with text by Frank Teller

Like his father, Teller gave numerous lectures and published several articles in the regional press and literature; mostly related to mining, including in the Erzgebirge yearbook , in the Erzgebirge homeland sheets , in the bleed and in the communications […] of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz eV , in the news sheet and anzeiger for Johanngeorgenstadt and the surrounding area and in the Freie Presse , Schwarzenberg edition.

His sometimes voluminous monographs include:

  • Mining experience - horse gopel Johanngeorgenstadt , Johanngeorgenstadt: Tourist Office Johanngeorgenstadt (publisher), [around 1993].
  • Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt , Johanngeorgenstadt: Förderverein Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt e. V. (Ed.), [Around 1994].
  • Mining educational trail Johanngeorgenstadt , Johanngeorgenstadt: Förderverein Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt e. V. (Ed.) [Around 1995].
  • Mining and mining town Johanngeorgenstadt , Johanngeorgenstadt: Förderverein Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt e. V. (Ed.), 2001.
  • Change, departure, demolition. Johanngeorgenstadt 1945–1961., Johanngeorgenstadt: Förderverein Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt e. V. (Ed.), 2009; 2nd edition 2010.

In the soft picture of Johanngeorgenstadt there are several historical orientation boards with texts by Frank Teller.

Honors

In 2010, he won the Saxon State Prize for Local Research with upheaval, departure and demolition. Johanngeorgenstadt 1945–1961 , a monograph on the Bismuth period of Johanngeorgenstadt, took second place. In the same year he was awarded the Johanngeorgenstadt City Prize of Honor.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Freie Presse , local edition Schwarzenberg of December 10, 2016, p. 15.
  2. ^ A b c Frank Nestler: Bergstädter mourn Frank Teller. In: Freie Presse , local edition Schwarzenberg of December 29, 2016, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Official homepage of the Förderverein Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt eV
  4. ↑ Katja Lippmann-Wagner: Rummaged through archives at a young age , in: Freie Presse , local edition Schwarzenberg of August 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ Saxon State Prize for Local Research 2010 , accessed on December 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Teller, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinheidel-Erlabrunn
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2016