Gustav Gotthilf Winkel

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Winkel as a corps student around 1928

Gustav Gotthilf Winkel (born August 18, 1857 in Pritzwalk , † February 6, 1937 in Marburg ) was a German administrative lawyer and heraldist. He became famous as a corps student.

Life

Born as the only son of a law firm in the Prignitz district, Winkel completed his schooling in Pritzwalk, Wittstock / Dosse and, from 1878, at the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Greiffenberg . From 1879 he studied law at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg , the Friedrichs-Universität Halle , the Universität Leipzig and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . After the first state examination at the Naumburg Higher Regional Court on November 3, 1884, he was a trainee lawyer in Pritzwalk and at the Berlin Regional Court . In 1887 he moved from the administration of justice to the internal administration of the Kingdom of Prussia . As a government trainee he was transferred to the Poznan administrative district . After serving in the district offices of Obornik and Wreschen (1888), he joined the government in Wroclaw . On July 5, 1890, he passed the assessor examination at the Supreme Court . He then Regierungsassessor the county Neuhaldensleben and the government in Magdeburg (taxes, building police, railways and dikes). In 1893 he married Agnes von Erckert from Freienwalde . In 1904 he went to the government in Kassel as head of the domain department . In 1908 he was moved to Köslin and finally in 1911 as Geh. Councilor transferred to the government in Königsberg . Due to an eye problem, he quit his job in mid-1918 at the age of 61. He retired in Marburg.

Corps student

The war newspaper published by Winkel

Winkel's student life began in 1879 at Franconia Würzburg . As an inactive person he was a traffic guest at Borussia Halle . At Borussia Breslau he was like a corps boy . 1911 to Königsberg i. Pr. To be transferred,

“Of course, it was the best thing that could have happened to Winkel. With the Masurians he soon socialized like an active man. He was so in the middle of it that he had to tell the old gentlemen what their young corps brothers were called at the grog hour for the twilight pint. When the war broke out and he saw a lot of field post letters lying around on the house, he suggested collecting them so that they could be made available to all Corps brothers through a field war newspaper. The suggestion was taken up and Winkel asked to put the newspaper together, which he happily did. Twice a month he compiled and mailed a newspaper. There were 100 numbers by the end of the war and this selfless work was rewarded by being awarded the corps ribbon in 1915. "

- Herbert Kater

The handwritten lithograph of the war newspaper of the Corps Masovia 1914-1919 with 1,081 pages in two volumes is in the Masurian Archives and in the German National Library. All his life he grumbled that Masovia had only given him the corps ribbon . He wore them in a particularly large copy under the ribbon of his mother corps.

In 1919/20, Winkel was the editor of the Deutsche Corpszeitung . He fought for the admission of the Rhaetia and the Corps in Prague , Graz , Leoben , Vienna and Brno . For this he received honorary ribbons from Rhaetia (1919), Suevia Prague (1919), Frankonia Brno (1919) and Marchia Brno (1920). He initiated Masovia's relationship of ideas with Suevia Prague and Rhaetia. In 1928 he published the Borussia Bonn Biographical Corpsalbum 1821–1928 with short résumés and images of almost all 1,037 Bonn Prussians . For this he received Borussia's corps bow in 1928 . His corps history of the Bonn Borussia 1821-1935 did not appear until 1938 posthumously . By editing the corps list and showing 90 early Bonn Prussians, the “Imperial Corps” was able to backdate its foundation by seven years. From 1898 to 1931 he took part in all 31 parliamentary days of the Association of Old Corps Students . He represented the old gentlemen's senior citizens' conventions in Magdeburg , Kassel , Köslin , Stettin , Kolberg , Bartenstein , Stolp , Insterburg , Waldenburg and Lyck . He obtained the new edition of the Kösener corps lists published in 1930 . He signed his letters with GG

"GeGe Winkel, as it was commonly called, was probably the greatest original that the Kösener produced."

- Herbert Kater

alpinist

Winkel loved the mountains all his life. On his 70th birthday he became the manager of the Kasseler Hütte in the Zillertal Alps .

Collector

Pedantic, Winkel was a great collector in thirty fields. Like no other, he brought the peace, victory and vivat ribbons to mind, collected, reconstructed and renewed them.

estate

Winkel's estate is in the Weißenfels City Museum at Neu-Augustusburg Castle .

Awards

Works

  • On the history of the Albertina's corps . Deutsche Corpszeitung 33/9, p. 258 ff. And 34/6, p. 157 ff.
  • The coats of arms and seals of the cities, towns and villages in the Altmark and Prignitz . Annual report of the Altmark Association, Vol. 24, 1 (1894) pp. 1–80. Magdeburg 1894 (reprinted 2004).
  • History of Franconia Erlangen 1810–1826 , with a membership list of 108 names. 1902.
  • Prince Bismarck as dike captain . Annual report of the Altmark Association, Vol. 30 (1903) pp. 189–205.
  • Lees Knowles: A day with corps students in Germany , translated from English by Gustav Gotthilf Winkel at the request of the author. Königsberg 1914, DNB 361075634
  • The corps and fraternities at the Albertina . Königsberg 1914, DNB 57837790X
  • German or Latin script for typewriters? Königsberg around 1916, DNB 578377918
  • Vivat tapes . Announcements from the Association of German War Collections, 4/1920
  • Kösener SC calendar - paperback for the Kösener corps student . Leipzig 1920.
  • Weinheimer SC calendar , Leipzig 1926, DNB 577430858
  • Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 , Bonn 1928 ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5: 1-14326 )
  • Life picture of a Prussian administrative officer (autobiography), in: Max F. Erckert: Chronicle of the Frankish family Erckert . 1971, pp. 314-318.

See also

literature

  • Biographical lexicon of heraldists and sphragisticians, vexillologists and insignologists , ed. vom HEROLD, Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Allied Sciences. Edited by Jürgen Arndt with the assistance of Horst Hilgenberg and Marga Wehner. Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch 1992 (J. Siebmachers Großes Wappenbuch, Vol. H), ISBN 3-87947-109-6 , p. 592
  • Herbert Kater: Go. Government Councilor Gustav Gotthilf Winkel . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 28 (1983), pp. 185-194 (based on the notes of Peter Engel).
  • Pallas - magazine of the Kunstgewerbeverein zu Magdeburg, vol. 13 (1892), p. 25 f. (Timeline)
  • Konrad Vanja : Vivat-Vivat-Vivat! Dedication and commemorative ribbons from three centuries. Writings of the Museum für Deutsche Volkskunde Berlin, vol. 12. Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, May 5 to October 13, 1985
  • Who is it - 10th edition (1935)

Web links

Commons : Gustav Gotthilf Winkel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5750, p. 140 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 139/494; 87/1023; 74/179; 118/131; 17/78; 18/143; 9/1038
personal data
SURNAME Winkel, Gustav Gotthilf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winkel, GeGe; Urwaderich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer; Heraldist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Pritzwalk
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1937
Place of death Marburg