Friedrich Heinz Schmidt

Heinz Friedrich Schmidt-Ebhausen

Friedrich Heinz Schmidt (also Schmidt-Ebhausen, born October 11, 1902 in Berlin , † April 23, 1971 in Stuttgart ) was a German philologist , folklorist and local history researcher .

Youth and Studies

Friedrich Heinz Schmidt was born in Berlin as the son of a high school teacher . After graduating from high school, he first studied German literature, cultural history , antiquity and folklore at the University of Berlin with the aim of working as a university teacher . As a result of the financial uncertainty after the First World War and the rising inflation, he decided not to continue his studies. He began a bank apprenticeship, which he successfully completed, and worked as a bank clerk. Due to the onset of hyperinflation , he was dismissed and from then on got by with odd jobs.

In 1925 he continued his studies at the University of Freiburg . For a living and to finance his studies, he worked as a typesetter in a printing company.

In Freiburg he met Friederike Krauss. The two married there in 1926. In 1927 daughter Anne was born. In the same year the family moved to Ebhausen , the home of Friederike Krauss. There they lived with their three sisters and their mother in their parents' house. After moving to Ebhausen, Schmidt continued his studies at the University of Tübingen .

Even while studying in Tübingen, Heinz Schmidt dealt intensively with the history of Ebhausen and the local customs. So he collected field names and collected songs, sagas, stories and nursery rhymes that were in circulation in the village and the surrounding area. He used these collections for his dissertation on the topic: The field names of the villages Ebhausen , Rohrdorf , Walddorf in the Württemberg Oberamt Nagold according to their linguistic and settlement-historical significance. With this work he obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1930 .

Relocation to Berlin and Bayreuth

After completing his doctorate in Tübingen, Friedrich Heinz Schmidt took up a position as a research assistant at the Atlas of German Folklore (ADV) in Berlin. As editor of the Berliner Schwabenblatt , Heinz Schmidt also published history about Ebhausen there. In 1935 the second daughter Gertrud was born in Berlin. In 1935 the family moved to Bayreuth . There Schmidt was a lecturer at the University for Teacher Education (HfL). From 1944 he served in the Wehrmacht . Schmidt was used as a rifleman and private in France.

Book cover page "Research on Folklore in the German Southwest"

Activity after the Second World War

After internment and release, Heinz Schmidt moved back to Ebhausen in 1946. Since December 1945, the wife and child had found accommodation with their mother there. Ebhausen now became the family's final place of residence. Schmidt became a research assistant at the German Folk Song Archive in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1946 and at the Württemberg State Office for Folklore in Stuttgart in 1947 . From 1950 to 1952 he was district home nurse and district representative of the Swabian Homeland Federation . This is followed by many publications on local history in daily newspapers and specialist magazines. In 1953 the company was able to move into its own house in Ebhausen. From 1955 to 1967 Schmidt was a lecturer at the educational institutes and universities of Esslingen and Stuttgart . As managing director of the State Office for East German Folklore, Heinz Schmidt dealt with the effects of displacement on the life of the refugees and displaced people. Here Schmidt was particularly responsible for publications on the lost homeland. From 1951 to 1961 he was honorary managing director and treasurer of the Commission for East German Folklore and from 1951 to 1969 head of the Stuttgart State Office for East German Folklore .

The focus of his research, however, was the place Ebhausen. The development of the Ebhauser church convention protocols and his work on the history of the Ebhauser church were published in the relevant specialist literature as well as other numerous works on Ebhausen. The book "Schwäbische Volkssagen" published by him also contains sagas from Ebhausen.

Heinz Schmidt died suddenly and unexpectedly on April 23, 1971, in the middle of the preparations for a district homeland book. His written estate was recorded in the Calw district archive and is available for research purposes.

Fonts

• Stories about the Ebhauser church tower. Ebhausen, self-published in 1928
• Customs and traditions in the course of the year. Instructions for observation and representation from tradition and the present. Württemberg State Office for Folklore, Stuttgart 1952
• Wildberg. The mountain town on the Nagold. Fate of a small Swabian town. Dieter Lauk, 1960
• Research on folklore in the German southwest. - Publications of the Staatl. Office for Monument Preservation Stuttgart, Series C: Folklore, Volume 2, Silberburg-Verlag, Werner Jäckh, Stuttgart 1963
• The Evangelical Parish Church in Ebhausen and its three predecessors. in: A thousand years like a day. , Festschrift for the centenary and inauguration of the renewed Evangelical Parish Church in Ebhausen, Ebhausen 1963
• One hundred years of Liederkranz Ebhausen - the history of its foundation. Festschrift, 1963
• Fire emergency and fire brigade in Ebhausen - On the history of the Ebhausen volunteer fire brigade. Festschrift "90 Years of the Ebhausen Volunteer Fire Brigade", Ebhausen 1965
• Swabian folk tales from the Black Forest to the Allgäu from Taubergrund to Lake Constance. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966

Essays

• A 300th anniversary of the Monhardt court, in "Der Gesellschafter", Nagold April 6th, 1929
• Old Ebhauser milestones, in "Der Gesellschafter", Nagold April 18, 1929
• Old and new from the history of Ebhausen, in "From the Black Forest", sheets of the Württemberg Black Forest Association, 38th year 1930, No. 2
• The Wetzelslehen in Ebhausen, in "Württemberg", 2nd year 1930, issue 5
• The mills at Wöllhausen, in "Der Gesellschafter", Nagold January 17, 1931
• The man loan at Ebhausen, in "Der Gesellschafter", Nagold June 27, 1931
• The field names of the villages Ebhausen, Rohrdorf and Walddorf, Oberamt Nagold, "Verlag der Heimatblätter vom Ober Neckar", Oberndorf am Neckar, 1932
• Field names legends and their origin - examples from the Ebhausen area, in "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, Enz-Nagold edition, November 26th, 1948 and December 3rd, 1948
• The torches - an old Christmas custom in the Calw district, in "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, Enz-Nagold edition, December 24th, 1948
• Pictures from old Ebhausen, in "Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg", Stuttgart, local supplement Ebhausen, 6 episodes, from March to August 1949
• The church tower at Ebhausen, in "Nagolder Gesellschafter", supplement to the "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, Nagold-Enz-Bote, 11.11.1949
• Where is Wöllhausen? in "Nagolder Gesellschafter", supplement to the "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, Nagold-Enz-Bote, November 25, 1949
• Klosabend - A local history reflection on St. Nicholas Day, in "Nagolder Gesellschafter", supplement to the "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, Nagold-Enz-Bote, December 5th, 1949
• The torch, in "Nagolder Gesellschafter", supplement to the "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, 5 vol. No. 154 from December 24th, 1949
• What loves each other is teasing - local and neighborhood nonsense in our home, in "Der Gesellschafter", Nagold "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, 7 episodes from January 28th. until May 6, 1950
• In home corridors - Ebhauser field names explained in "Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg", Stuttgart, local supplement Ebhausen, 4 episodes, from March to May 1950
• Ebhauser Fasnet of 250 years, in "Der Gesellschafter", supplement to the "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, from February 18th, 1950
• What the old church book tells in "Melodie der Heimat", supplement to the "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, no. 12 from 23.03.1950
• The 100-year-old street - the street Nagold-Altensteig was inaugurated in 1850, in "Der Gesellschafter", Nagold, "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, from April 15, 1950
• Local Pentecostal customs, in "Der Gesellschafter", Nagold, "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, from May 27th, 1950
• Telling our homeland, in "Der Gesellschafter", Nagold, "Schwarzwälder Post", Oberndorf am Neckar, 7 episodes from June 17th. until July 29, 1950.
• Ebhausen from 250 years, in "Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg", Stuttgart, local supplement Ebhausen, August to December 1950
• Local Christmas customs, in "Aus den Tannen", Altensteig, No. 4, December 1950
• Durchspinnet, Klöpfelnacht and Stephansritt - Old Christmas customs around the upper Nagoldtal of 50 years, in "Schwarzwald-Echo", Altensteiger and Nagolder Zeitung, Nagold, 23.12.1950
• Our Ebhauser pastors - a parish chronicle over five centuries, "Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg", Stuttgart, local supplement Ebhausen, January to May 1952
• Maienstcken and Pfingstbutz - May customs in our homeland then and now, in "Aus den Tannen", Altensteig, No. 9, May 1951 and in "Aus der Heimat", Calw, No. 1, May 1951
• Find reports - Ebhausen and Sulz am Eck, in "Aus den Tannen", Altensteig, No. 11, July 1951 and in "Aus der Heimat, Calw, No. 3, July 1951
• From folk style and folk custom in the Calw district, in "Württemberger Land", 1953
• The torch - an "ancient" custom in the Calw district ?, in "Schwäbische Heimat", 5th year 1954, issue 3
• 1455–1955 A year of thought by the church in Ebhausen, in "Schwäbische Heimat", 6th year 1955, No. 4
• A year of remembrance for the Ebhausen church, in "Nagolder Anzeiger", Nagold, "Schwarzwald-Echo", Altensteig, "Calwer Tagblatt" Calw, 11th year, no. 87 from April 16, 1955
• The new street names in Ebhausen (Krs. Calw), in "Mitteilungsblatt der Gemeinde Ebhausen", No. 27, from November 5, 1958
• Folk Customs in Transition - Influences of the Present in Customs tradition, illustrated by two local examples in "Württembergisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde" 1959/60, W.Kohlhammer Verlag Stuttgart
• Connections with the Remigius Church - excavations in the Evang. Parish church in Ebhausen, in "Der Gesellschafter", 127 vol., No. 274, from November 28, 1961
• The excavations in the Evang. Parish church in Ebhausen - 2nd report, in "Nagolder Anzeiger", Volume 18, No. 14, from January 18, 1962
• The parish church of Ebhausen - Ebhauser excavations under the aspect of world history, in "Schwarzwälder Bote - der Gesellschafter", Nagold, October 4th or 5th, 1963
• The Evangelical Parish Church in Ebhausen, in "Nagolder Anzeiger", vol. 19, no. 40, from February 16, 1963
• Millennial witness in the building site - The Evangelical Parish Church in Ebhausen, in "Black Forest Bote" - "The Partner", Nagold, 129 year old, No. 40, from 16./17. February 1963
• Four hundred years of elementary school in Ebhausen - for the inauguration of the new school house, in "Schwarzwälder Bote - der Gesellschafter", Nagold, 129 year old, from June 8, 1963 and in "Nagolder Anzeiger" and "Schwarzwaldecho", Altensteig, 19th year, No. 131, dated June 8, 1963
• The organs of the Protestant parish church in Ebhausen, in "Schwarzwälder Bote - der Gesellschafter", Nagold. No. 283 of December 5, 1964 and "Nagolder Anzeiger", vol. 20, No. 282 of December 5, 1964 and "Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg", local supplement Ebhausen, December 1964
• Signs and inscriptions on our church, in "Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg", local supplement Ebhausen, February 1965
• Folk tradition in language, custom and legend in the Nagoldgau of the Black Forest Association, in "Der Schwarzwald", Freiburg i. Br., Born 1968, issue 1
• Home in the air - Ebhausen, in "Schwarzwälder Bote" (Calwer Kreiszeitung), no. 211 from September 12, 1968

Web links

• [1] Written estate in the Calw district archive

Individual evidence

1. ^ Schmidt-Ebhausen, Friedrich Heinz on leo-bw.de