Georg Wagner (non-fiction author)

Georg Wagner in 1916

Georg Wagner (born October 10, 1876 in Obertiefenbach , † March 6, 1955 in Wiesbaden ) was a German elementary school teacher , non-fiction author and local researcher .

Origin, education and profession

Georg Wagner was born as the eldest of eight children of the farmer Georg Aloysius Wagner and his wife Katharina Brigitte, née Meilinger, in the Hessian community of Obertiefenbach, which at that time belonged to the Oberlahn district, and grew up there. Today the place is part of the municipality Beselich and belongs to the merged district Limburg-Weilburg . Wagner belonged to the Catholic denomination. After attending the primary school in Obertiefenbach from March 2, 1882 to 1890, he successfully attended a two-year teacher training college .

Wagner married Katharina nee Schlitt on November 27, 1901 in Obertiefenbach (sister of the later district administrator of Wiesbaden Karl Josef Schlitt ) and moved to Oberhattert , where he worked as a primary school teacher at the elementary school. In the 1920s he took a job as a primary school teacher at a Wiesbaden school and lived in Wiesbaden-Dotzheim until the end of his life. His tomb is on the Obertiefenbach cemetery.

From the 1920s until his death, Wagner wrote several extensive books on local history and local history articles in daily newspapers.

Works (selection)

During his time in Dotzheim, Georg Wagner wrote several homeland books as an author:

Beselich monastery and pilgrimage site . Wiesbaden-Dotzheim 1935.
Obertiefenbach in its past . Obertiefenbach community, Wiesbaden-Dotzheim 1954.

Appreciation

In the 1960s, the community of Obertiefenbach honored the special merits of its late historian and non-fiction author with the reassignment of the street name of the previous Neuer Weg in "Georg-Wagner-Straße".

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Sub-birth register 1876. Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv - Standesamt Obertiefenbach, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c death register 1955; registered on the basis of the written notification of the municipal hospitals in Wiesbaden dated March 7, 1955. Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv - registry office Wiesbaden, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
↑ student directory resp. Progress book for the elementary school in Obertiefenbach from 1862 to 1883 and admission and discharge book
^ Franz-Josef Sehr : The fire extinguishing system in Obertiefenbach from earlier times . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 1994 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg 1993, p. 151-153 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wagner, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Obertiefenbach (Beselich)
DATE OF DEATH	March 6, 1955
Place of death	Wiesbaden

[Hauptstaatsarchiv1-1] Sub-birth register 1876. Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv - Standesamt Obertiefenbach, accessed on August 13, 2020 .

[Hauptstaatsarchiv2-2] death register 1955; registered on the basis of the written notification of the municipal hospitals in Wiesbaden dated March 7, 1955. Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv - registry office Wiesbaden, accessed on August 13, 2020 .

[3] student directory resp. Progress book for the elementary school in Obertiefenbach from 1862 to 1883 and admission and discharge book

[4] Franz-Josef Sehr : The fire extinguishing system in Obertiefenbach from earlier times . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 1994 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg 1993, p. 151-153 .