Georg Lang (civil servant)

Georg Lang: Bavarian Pioneer, book cover, 1918

Georg Lang: The chiffchaff of the winemaker Weidle, charcoal drawing 1911

Georg Lang: Pioneers on the Rhine near Speyer, 1913

Georg Lang (born November 3, 1884 in Speyer ; † March 20, 1944 in Speyer) was a German tax officer, poet and draftsman .

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He was the son of the Speyer bookbinder Georg Peter Lang and his wife Elisabeth, b. Squirrel.

Georg Lang attended the humanistic grammar school in his hometown , passed his Abitur there and joined the Bavarian financial service. First he worked in Kaiserslautern , where he met his future wife Wilhelmine Therese Graf (1891–1964), whom he married in 1913. She was a sister of the painter Karl Graf (1902–1986).

After the marriage , the couple moved to Speyer, where Georg Lang worked as an invoice commissioner and then as a rent officer at the tax office . Most recently he held the position of a government councilor and head of the Speyer tax office.

During the First World War , Lang served as a vice sergeant in the replacement battalion of the 2nd Royal Bavarian Pioneer Battalion garrisoning in Speyer . Always interested in local history and art, he also wrote essays and poems , and he also drew. He worked on a collection of local legends from Speyer, for which he also made illustrations. However, this was never completed, so only fragments have been preserved. When his troop unit published the memorial book Bavarian Pioneers in the World War ( Munich , Piper Verlag ) in 1918 , a colored drawing by Georg Lang was selected as the cover image. Another drawing by him was used in the book as a head vignette. In addition, his poem Bavarian Pioneers was published in it.

literature

• Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities. Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , p. 503 u. 504
• Karl Lehmann: Bavarian pioneers in the world wars , Munich, R. Piper Verlag, 1918, pp. XII, 1, 2 u. 202