Gustav Siegel (local history researcher)

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Gustav Siegel (* 1861 in Wolfhagen ; † February 6, 1931 in Kassel ) was a German post office worker and local researcher .

Life

Born in Wolfhagen, North Hesse, Siegel completed an apprenticeship at the Post. On November 1, 1884, he was transferred to Lichtenau, also in northern Hesse. The renaming of Lichtenau to Hessisch Lichtenau , in order to avoid mix-ups with the mail delivery, goes back to his initiative.

Here he wrote his first historical text in 1895, the "History of the city of Lichtenau in Hesse and its surroundings, along with news about the individual official locations and a document book", which was published in 1897 in the journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . In 1904 he was transferred to Eschwege and the following year to Kassel, where he held the post of chief telegraph inspector. On the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary he wrote a chronicle of his hometown Wolfhagen, which appeared in 1929. When he died in 1931, his main work, an extensive history of the Hessian troops in the Thirty Years' War, on which he had worked for several decades, was almost finished, but remained unpublished. The collection of materials is kept in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg as an inheritance .

His grave is preserved in the old cemetery in Hessisch Lichtenau. In Wolfhagen and Hessisch Lichtenau streets are named after him.

Siegel was married to Sophie Wilhelmine geb. Bezzenberger, with whom he had four daughters.

Publications

  • History of the city of Lichtenau in Hesse and its surroundings along with news about the individual official locations and a document book . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies Vol. 32 (1897) pp. 1-443 ( digitized version ).
  • History of the city of Wolfhagen in Hesse . Wolfhagen 1929.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Gold: Gustav Siegel put the Hessian before Lichtenau . In: Hessisch Niedersächsische Allgemeine , April 1, 2014.
  2. ^ Paul Görlich: Wolfhagen, history of a north Hessian city . Wolfhagen 1980, p. 443 .
  3. ↑ Central database of bequests
  4. ^ Hans Gold: Gustav Siegel put the Hessian before Lichtenau . In: Hessisch Niedersächsische Allgemeine , April 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Siegel, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German post office worker and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfhagen
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1931
Place of death kassel