Georg Bessell

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Georg Otto Adolph Bessell (born September 27, 1891 in Magdeburg , † September 13, 1976 in Bremen ) was a Bremen teacher and historian.

life and work

From 1919 Bessell worked in the school service of Bremerhaven, since 1929 he was active as a teacher at the old grammar school in Bremen. His main work is the extensive history of Bremerhaven from 1927, and he also wrote popular accounts of the history of Bremen and Bremerhaven. In the 1950s he shifted to the creation of various anniversary publications by institutions and companies, including a "old-fashioned, Lloyd -blessed" story of North German Lloyd .

His politically conservative view of Bremen's history, which he saw as being embedded in the development of the Prussian-German nation-state, hardly differed from that of other Bremen historians of his generation.

Works

  • History of Bremerhaven , Bremerhaven 1927.
  • Reprinted under the title History of Bremerhaven - The First 100 Years , Bremen
  • A Bremen State Treaty a hundred years ago. , Bremer Bibliophile Gesellschaft, 8, Bremen 1930, reprint 1977.
  • Bremen. The story of a German city . Bremen 1935. A slightly changed second edition appeared in 1955.
  • 100 years of Inner Mission , Bremen 1949.
  • Home chronicle of the city of Bremerhaven , Cologne 1955.
  • North German Lloyd 1857–1957 , Bremen: Schünemann, 1957.
  • with August Westermann: 150 years of shipbuilding in Vegesack , Bremen: Schünemann, 1955. [History of the shipyards Johann Lange, HF Ulrichs and Bremer Vulkan ]
  • 100 years of the Kippenberg School 1859–1959 , Bremen 1959.
  • with Werner Vienna: 150 years of Carl Schünemann , Bremen 1960.
  • Heinrich Bömers, Senator in Bremen, head of the Reidemeister & Ulrichs company , Bremen: Schünemann, 1964
  • Kulenkampff brothers 1806–1956. History of a Bremen trading company , Bremen 1956.
  • Pastor Constantin Frick, a picture of life , Bremen: Heye, 1957
  • 125 years AG "Weser" - 1848 to November 8, 1968, Bremen: Schünemann, 1968.

literature

  • Manfred Ernst: Bessell, Georg Otto Adolph , In: Hartmut Bickelmann (ed.): Bremerhaven personalities from four centuries, Bremerhaven 2002, pp. 33–35.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bremisches Jahrbuch 81, 2002, p. 208.
  2. ↑ Helmut Stubbe da Luz: In service on Bremen's German broadcast? The historical society and its environment in the time of National Socialism. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 86, 2007, p. 284 with note 49, mitigated the accusation of a nationalist perspective suggested by H. Schwarzwälder, Großes Bremer Lexikon, p. 61; on Bessel's revisionist position already during the Weimar Republic see Jörn Brinkhus: The city magazine "Der Schlüssel" and "Bremen's German Task" . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 91, 2012, p. 203 with note 65.
personal data
SURNAME Bessell, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bessell, Georg Otto Adolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1976
Place of death Bremen