Georg Spickhoff

Georg Spickhoff (born February 20, 1872 in Düsseldorf , † July 9, 1959 ) was a German school principal and local researcher.

Career

Spickhoff comes from a long-established Düsseldorf legal family. He was born on February 20, 1872 in Carlstadt . After graduating from high school, he was supposed to study law, but had to discard the plans after his father's death. Instead, he embarked on a teaching career. Before retiring, he was the rector of the Catholic elementary schools on Martinstrasse and Neusser Strasse .

His close ties to the church council of the Maximiliansgemeinde led to his entry into the German Center Party . As their representative he was a member of the city council of Düsseldorf from 1924 until the party's self-dissolution in 1933.

From around 1910 he began to systematically process the city's history. He published the results in lectures, articles and writings. Through decades of activities in almost all of the city's homeland associations, he became the leading figure of Düsseldorf customs. He was a member of the artists' association Malkasten and the Düsseldorf History Association. In the carnival committee he acted as a treasurer and was a founding member in 1920 and from 1929 chairman of the Alde Düsseldorfer citizens' association . Under Albert Kanehl , he was deputy shooting chief of the St. Sebastianus shooting club from 1933 .

Honors

• Cross of Honor 1st Class of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern
• Kolping plaque
• 1947: Lacomblet Medal from the Düsseldorf History Association
• Order of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice
• 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Frank Wintgens: Living with the past. Festivals and celebrations in Düsseldorf 1945–1955. Düsseldorf, Univ., Diss., 1996

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Spickhoff in the catalog of the German National Library