Franz Gleitze

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Franz Gleitze (1941)

Franz Gleitze (born November 13, 1869 in Seeburg ; † June 8, 1958 ibid) was a German homeland poet from Seeburg in Eichsfeld .

Life

From 1875 to 1883 Franz Gleitze attended the Catholic elementary school in Seeburg and from 1883 to 1886 trained as a master leaf binder. After completing his training, he started his own business as a leafbinder. From 1888 to 1890 he served as a soldier in the 82 infantry regiment in Göttingen .

In 1891 he bought himself after his marriage to the master tailor Elisabeth, b. Goldmann, an agricultural homestead with large and small cattle and a large house for 2 families. Until 1958 he managed his own and leased arable land and pastures. From 1896, after having attended various advanced training courses in forestry , he was in charge of the forests of the real communities Seeburg and Bernshausen, the parish of Seeburg and the forests of Baron von Uslar-Gleichen as a forester . Franz Gleitze was a member of the parish council of St. Martin's parish in Seeburg.

Franz Gleitze belonged to the war club Seeburg (later Kyffhäuser Kameradschaft) and was a captain for years. He organized the 25th anniversary of the warrior club in 1899. Franz Gleitze was an active member of the Seeburg men's choir and chaired it from 1911 to 1912 and from 1921 to 1922. In 1921 he organized the 25th anniversary here too. From 1900 on, Franz Gleitze was a member of the Seeburg community committee. In 1916, at the age of 46, Franz Gleitze was drafted into the Eastern Front as a war front soldier.

From 1895 to 1912 Franz Gleitze was the hunting overseer for the factory owner Sartorius from Göttingen for the Seeburg hunting district. From 1912 to 1924, the school councils Ernst and Jünemann appointed him as a game warden in Seeburg. Until 1933 he was chairman of the local association of the Catholic Center Party, of which he had been a member since 1900. During the entire time of the National Socialist dictatorship, he met with party members of the center for political meetings underground.

From 1932 to 1953 he leased the Seeburg hunting district together with his sons Wilhelm Gleitze, Matthias Gleitze and his son-in-law Johannes Rust. In 1933 Franz Gleitze built a log cabin hunting lodge in a former quarry in the Seeburger Wald and dug a 7 meter deep well with his own hands.

After the Second World War, Franz Gleitze was given the task of chairing the refugee committee for the Seeburg community. In November 1945, at the age of 76, he and his son Matthias Gleitze founded the Seeburg local association of the Christian Democratic Union, of which he became chairman. From 1945 to 1948 he was a member of the Seeburg municipal council for the CDU and played a decisive role in the development of the democratic Seeburg municipal self-government. From 1950 to 1957 he held the office of arbitrator in the Seeburg community.

Gleitze had six sons and three daughters.

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Gleitze acquired astronomical, plant, animal and local knowledge. He collected the historical field names of the Seeburg district, which were printed in full in the book History of the Seeburg Municipality by the author Günter Meinhardt in 1980.

He wrote local, religious and hunting poems. The most famous poem " The Rhumesprung " was published on a postcard in Rhumspringe and sent all over the world by tourists.

  • The rhume jump
  • The Seeburg lake
  • View from the Hünstollen
  • The star of Bethlehem
  • Easter morning
  • Easter
  • Assumption Day
  • Christmas
  • The merry month of May
  • Springtime
  • The autumn
  • The winter
  • The four Seasons
  • The Seeburg hunting lodge
  • The chicken hunt
  • Wild boar hunt in the Seeburg Forest
  • The forest hunt of Seeburg
  • The wild boar hunt on Lake Seeburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Göttinger Tageblatt of June 23, 1951: A 60-year-old marriage bond - the Gleitze couple celebrated their diamond wedding today
  2. ↑ Südhannoversche Volkszeitung of June 23, 1956: Whatever happened in life - Franz Gleitze and his wife celebrate an iron wedding
  3. ↑ Matthias Gleitze: Franz Gleitze, forester and poet from Seeburg, 1869 - 1958, his life - his poems , Springe 2016
personal data
SURNAME Gleitze, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Seeburg (Lower Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1958
Place of death Seeburg (Lower Saxony)