Gustav Friedrich Meyer

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Gustav Friedrich Meyer (born February 28, 1878 in Gleschendorf station, today Pönitz , Ostholstein ; † July 29, 1945 in Neustadt in Holstein ) was a German folklorist and homeland researcher .

Life

His parents were Elise (née Huwaldt) and Ferdinand Meyer. The father was Hufner and community leaders of the community Siblin (today Municipality Ahrensbök ) to the train station Gleschendorf was how the place at the time and a member of the Provincial Council belonged in Eutin . Meyer grew up in a Low German- speaking house, in which Low German fairy tales and legends were often told, which influenced his further career. A notice board hangs on the house where he was born in Pönitz, Lindenstrasse and the corner of Friedenstrasse.

Meyer completed his training as a secondary school teacher in 1899/1900 in the subjects of English, French and religion.

Meyer began his activity as a middle school teacher either in Kiel or Mölln . In 1900 he was the youngest member of the teaching staff at the V. Knaben-Mittelschule in Gaarden . There he taught the beginner classes and runs the teachers' library. He worked at this school until 1926. Later this school was named after him. In the meantime it has been converted into a community school and renamed community school am Brook after the neighboring forest .

Meyer began collecting folklore in the Danish Wohld and the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg around 1905 . Between 1910 and 1914 he worked as a collaborator on the Schleswig-Holstein Dictionary , which was edited by Otto Mensing .

In the First World War he fought near Tannenberg and on the Western Front. In 1917 he was taken prisoner for three years and resumed his school service in 1920.

After returning from captivity, he was able to continue his folklore exploratory trips through the whole of Schleswig-Holstein by taking a leave of absence , collecting fairy tales , legends , popular beliefs, rascals , riddles , songs and reports on customs . Between 1930 and 1940 Meyer wrote a large number of articles, especially in the Kieler Zeitung .

Gustav Friedrich Meyer was one of the folklorists who welcomed the Nazi seizure of power. He was neither a staunch National Socialist nor a simple follower. Meyer became a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB) in 1934 , in whose organ he published several articles. In 1936 Meyer received from the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and National Education the "teaching assignment for excursions and exercises on local research in Schleswig-Holstein". Meyer was also a consultant for folklore in the local research section of the Department of Ethnicity and Homeland of the National Socialist Cultural Community . In 1939 he became a lecturer in folklore and folk art at the Institute for Folk and Regional Research. Presumably in 1937 he joined the German Ahnenerbe research association founded by Heinrich Himmler . Meyer was a specialist in the Nazi cultural community, Gau Schleswig-Holstein, and the 12th Germanic Conference of the SS Ahnenerbes in Kiel in 1939. He headed the Kiel office for the Atlas of German Folklore , after his Jewish predecessor Dr. Fritz Braun had emigrated.

Meyer was a member of the Kiel lodge "Holstentreue" of the Druid Order (whereupon he was refused an honorary doctorate).

His archive is now in the Schleswig-Holstein State Library in Kiel.

In 1941 he published the book Customs of the Young Teams in Schleswig-Holstein .

Meyer died withdrawn in 1945.

Works

  • Low German nursery rhymes from Schleswig-Holstein. Lipsius & Tischer, Leipzig, 1908
  • Now let us sing. Lüdtke & Martens, Kiel, 1912
  • Our native Low German language. Verlag H. Lühr & Dircks, Garding, 1923 ( transcription (partly changed) )
  • Low German folk fairy tales and Schwänke. Wachholtz Verlag , Neumünster, 1925
  • Wunnern un Wünsch, Low German folk tales, told for children , Neumünster, 1927, reprinted unchanged Neumünster, 1977, ISBN 3-529-04709-0
  • Schleswig-Holstein legends. (Series Tribal Studies of German Landscapes ), Eugen Diederichs, Jena, 1929
  • Customs of the young teams in Schleswig-Holstein. Contributions to the history of Germanic community life. Verlag Heimat u. Erbe, Flensburg, 1941

literature

  • Katja Rhoda Schulz: Gustav Friedrich Meyer (1878–1945): a Schleswig-Holstein folklorist in the first half of the 20th century . Term paper to obtain the Magister Artium at the Philosophical Faculty, Kiel 1991; in the individual records: KRS .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KRS, page 8
  2. ↑ a b c d KRS, page 10
  3. ^ Otto Mensing, Schleswig-Holstein Dictionary, Wachholtz Verlag , 1925–1935
  4. ↑ KRS, page 12
  5. ↑ a b KRS, page 15
  6. ↑ http://www.uni-kiel.de/ns-zeit/allgemein/volkskunde.shtml
  7. ↑ a b c KRS, page 22
  8. ↑ KRS, page 16
  9. ↑ KRS, page 20
  10. ^ KRS, pp. 18-19
  11. ^ The term paper in the CAU university library
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Gustav Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Gleschendorf train station, today Pönitz , Ostholstein
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1945
Place of death Neustadt in Holstein