Hans Raithel

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Hans Raithel (actually Johannes Raithel ; born March 31, 1864 in Benk , today a part of Bindlach ; † September 26, 1939 there ) was a German local poet, writer and high school professor who also published under the pseudonym Peter Michel .

biography

Hans Raithel was the younger son of the farmer Friedrich Raithel and his wife Anna-Margarete, who ran the so-called Lettenhof together. When Hans Raithel was three years old, he and his 13-year-older brother lost their mother, who was struck by a thunderstorm in the field. His father remarried a year after the accident. In 1870 Hans Raithel started school. Although his father had chosen him as his successor for the Lettenhof, he wanted to become a pastor and was supported in this by his stepmother, relatives and the village pastor, who was also a teacher at the village school. Raithel himself describes the fact that his father finally gave in as the result of an unsuccessful trip with the team of oxen on his part, whereupon his father classified him as unsuitable as a farmer. After attending the preparatory school from April to July 1874, he passed the entrance exam for the Latin school and the grammar school in Bayreuth . In 1883 he graduated from high school, rejected the wish to become a pastor, and took up the study of philosophy and modern languages at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he spent a semester at the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelms University and then at the Philipps University of Marburg continued. During his studies he also worked as an editor for the Kneipp newspaper . After the exams for French, English and German for all classes in 1888, study trips to France, England and North America followed. In 1894 he joined the Berlin Press Association . At first he did not practice the profession of teacher because of an illness, lived alternately in the Bayreuth region, in Munich , Vienna and Berlin and turned to literature, history, philosophy and the Spanish language. After his ailment improved as a result of a diet regimen around 1900, he took a short-term job at a private educational institution in Munich, then went to the municipal high school in Oldenburg and, on the advice of his doctors because of his headache, to the higher secondary school in Lüdenscheid , where he worked until 1924. He spent his retirement in Bayreuth.

There is a square in Lüdenscheid and a street in Bayreuth named after him.

Works

  • The Schusterhans and his three sponsors A village history , CF Amelangs Verlag, Leipzig, 1915

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Hans Raithel - study professor and local poet at Who is who in Bayreuth?
personal data
SURNAME Raithel, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raithel, Johannes (real name); Michel, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local poet, writer and high school professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Benk (today part of Bindlach )
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1939
Place of death Benk (today part of Bindlach )