Friedrich Wilhelm Giebel
Friedrich Wilhelm Giebel (born May 11, 1909 in Lohme ; † January 24, 1988 in Bremen ) was a German publisher and editor of the magazines Unser Mecklenburg and Unser Altmark .
biography
Giebel was born in Lohme on the West Pomeranian island of Rügen , but the following year his father, the merchant Paul Giebel from Schwerin , moved with his family back to his home in Mecklenburg - to Bad Doberan, where he ran an iron and household goods store in Severinstr. / Corner of Mollistr. (now Rossmann) opened. There the boy first attended the community school and switched to the Friderico-Francisceum grammar school at Easter 1918 , which he left with the qualification for Obersekunda. In 1926/27 Giebel attended the higher commercial school in Rostock. He then worked in the office of the Rostock shipping company Hugo Ferdinand. The years 1932/33 brought changing activities, including a short period of unemployment. From February 1933 Giebel worked freelance in Bad Doberan as a reporter for the "Ostseebote" , the "Rostocker Anzeiger" , the German news office and the "Mecklenburgische Zeitung" in Schwerin. During this time, when he reported on the Bad Doberan - Kühlungsborn bathing railway, he always referred to the name " MOLLI " in his newspaper reports . His youngest brother Erich always called this name when the train approached from the beginning of the 1930s!
From 1935 Giebel also operated an on-site support agency for vacationers in Kühlungsborn, Heiligendamm and Nienhagen.
On July 10, 1936, he married the caretaker Luise Seghorn (born September 29, 1912 in Carolinensiel; died December 6, 2000 in Bremen) in Doberaner Munster. During the Second World War , Giebel served in the Nebelwerfertruppe for five years .
After the end of the war, Giebel founded a writing office with advertisements in Bad Doberan and became honorary director of the newly founded Low German Stage Bad Doberan. On January 10, 1949, Giebel left his Mecklenburg homeland and came to Bremen via West Berlin, where he opened a newsagents shop at the Findorfftunnel in Bremen. In the spring of 1951 he became one of the co-founders of the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft at the federal level.
Giebel founded the magazine Unser Mecklenburg with the subtitle Heimatblatt for Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania in September 1951 , to which he affiliated the magazine Unser Altmark in December 1960 . Giebel, who ran the editorial and publishing house as a one-man operation, got his information about what was happening in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, mainly from compatriots and the local newspapers in the three northern districts of the GDR. His authors also included numerous Buten-Mecklenburgers living in the west, including Friedrich Griese , Walter Lehmbecker and Helmut de Voss . A total of 451 issues of Unser Mecklenburg appeared over more than three decades, initially monthly, later every two months. Giebel stopped publication in 1983 with issue No. 6 (November / December) and wrote to his readers: “All efforts to find a publisher that would continue the editorial work as I had developed and expanded it in 32 years, remained unsuccessful ”. Giebel's business also included a mail-order bookshop, which he initially kept.
At the funeral service in 1988 in Bremen - Oberneuland , Helmut de Voss said in his farewell speech to Friedrich Wilhelm Giebel: “Dat Fritz Giebel us all with sien clothing Our Mecklenburg de Heimat äwer dörtig Johr in't Hus sends hett, dat hett hei with resignation Doberan and Rostock, up Güstrow and Schwerin. "
Honors
Giebel's work for Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania and his compatriots received multiple recognition. In 1977 the publisher and bookseller received the Fritz Reuter Society's letter of honor . In 1980 the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft awarded him their Mecklenburg Culture Prize . He had previously received the Fritz Reuter Medal.
estate
His estate is in the Schwerin State Main Archive .
Other parts of his estate are also in the Bad Doberan town archive, in the Doberan Minster and also at the Fritz Reuter Society. A complete, bound copy of his magazines Unser Mecklenburg and Unser Altmark can also be found here .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the estate database of the Federal Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gable, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wages |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1988 |
| Place of death | Bremen |