Franz Julius Wettel

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Franz Julius Wettel

Franz Julius Wettel , pseudonym: Beatus Streiter (born February 24, 1854 in Werschetz , Austrian Empire ; † August 5, 1938 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ) was a Danube Swabian historian and politician. Together with Edmund Steinacker, he is one of the founders of the Hungarian German People's Party (UDVP), which was founded on December 30, 1906 in Werschetz. He was also active as a local historian and had achieved prosperity as a bookseller and publisher.

Live and act

After elementary school in Werschetz, he completed an apprenticeship as a businessman in Weißkirchen, but went to Vienna in 1871 to become a bookseller there. In his spare time he studied harmony and attended an organ school. He then toured Germany and Switzerland, returned to Werschetz in 1876, where he opened a book and music shop. In 1880 he came to Timisoara and bought the later Corvina-Buichhandlung. In 1910 he bought the southern Hungarian book printing company.

He left his Banatica library to the Banatia in Timisoara in the form of a “Wettel Foundation” . It had been in the teachers' room at the school since 1936 and was administered by H. Hegel until 1942. After the royal coup in Romania in 1944, it was outsourced.

As a colleague of Edmund Steinacker , he campaigned for the preservation of Hungarian Germanness. Wettel was instrumental in founding the Hungarian German People's Party on December 30, 1907. Together with Steinacker and Johann Matthias Anheuer , on December 16, 1900, he founded the “German daily newspaper for Hungary”.

Franz Julius Wettel died in Timisoara in 1938, where he was buried in the crypt of the Wettel family.

Publisher and editor

  • South Hungarian wine and agriculture newspaper, Werschetz 1878
  • Dettaer Zeitung, Detta 1881
  • German daily newspaper for Hungary, Timisoara 1900
  • German-Hungarian friend of the people, Timisoara 1903

Works

  • Stephan Milow. A German-Banat poet. A biographical sketch . Temesvar, 1914
  • History of the Banates in Antiquity and the Middle Ages . Temesvar, 1927
  • Biographical sketches. Contributions to the history of the Banate . Temesvar, 1932

Awards

  • Silver medal from the German Academy in Munich , 1936
  • Honorary member of the Association of Swabian University Students in Vienna
  • Honorary Chairman of the Banat German Cultural Association founded by Michael Kausch

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
personal data
SURNAME Wettel, Franz Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danube Swabian historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Werschetz , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1938
Place of death Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania