Georg Flemmig

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Georg Adam Flemmig (born April 14, 1874 , † January 10, 1950 ) was a German teacher, rector of the city school, religious-social folk writer, magazine editor and honorary citizen of the city of Schlüchtern .

Life

Georg Flemmig came from the Flemmig family, which can be traced back to Schlüchtern since around 1590. His father was a shoemaker , his brother Ludwig, in whose house Georg Flemmig lived as a bachelor, founded the shoe store Flemmig (see today's Sport Flemmig). He was related and well known to the German scholar Ernst Hadermann from Schlüchtern, who taught at the State University of Potsdam after the Second World War and at the University of Wittenberg until his retirement .

Georg Flemmig, who earned his living as a village school teacher, was a well-read person, shaped by humanism and Protestant Christianity , who was interested and committed to education , culture , music , city ​​history , community and home .

Georg Flemmig, whose "personal charisma was reported enthusiastically", rarely left Schlüchtern. Nevertheless, his room was “the quiet center” of the Neuwerk movement he co-founded in 1919 . Many guests gathered in the few rooms in his apartment, including Karl Barth , Paul Tillich , the Hamburg shipowner Kurt Woermann and Martin Buber . In addition to many conservatives and socialists, government officials from Kassel and, above all, members of the various youth movements also met him .

Georg-Flemmig-Strasse in Schlüchtern is named after him.

Publications

  • Village thoughts . Volume 1 in the Neuwerk Volksbuch series . Schluechtern 1921
  • Home baking bread . Volume 2 in the series Neuwerk-Volksbücher . Schluechtern 1923
  • In the weekly magazine Der Christian Demokratie. Weekly paper for the evangelical house (edited by Otto Herpel) published numerous articles by Georg Flemmig, including from 1922 the weekly column Diary of a Neuwerkler .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gedbas Genealogy: Flemmig in Schlüchtern ; accessed on June 21, 2019
  2. ↑ Antje Vollmer: The Neuwerk movement. Between youth movement and religious socialism . Herder Verlag: Freiburg 2016. p. 13
  3. ↑ See Schlüchtern.de: Schlüchterner personalities: Georg Flemmig ; accessed on June 21, 2019
  4. ↑ Antje Vollmer: The Neuwerk movement. Between youth movement and religious socialism . Herder Verlag: Freiburg 2016. S. 13f
  5. ^ A later subtitle read: The Christian in the People's State ; see Antje Vollmer: The Neuwerk movement. Between youth movement and religious socialism . Herder Verlag: Freiburg 2016. p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Flemmig, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flemmig, Georg Adam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, religious-social writer, magazine editor and honorary citizen of the city of Schlüchtern
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1874
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1950