Hansgeorg Buchholtz

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Hansgeorg Buchholtz (born June 25, 1899 in Mulhouse , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † April 22, 1979 in Uetersen ) was a German educator and writer .

Life

Hansgeorg Buchholtz was the son of an officer in the Prussian army ; Most of his ancestors came from East Germany . Buchholtz visited in Braunschweig , the secondary school to the school-leaving examination . From 1917 he took part in the First World War as an ensign . After the end of the war, he completed his studies at the universities in Berlin , Freiburg im Breisgau and Königsberg from 1919 . From 1926 he worked as a teacher at secondary schools in the East Prussian towns of Nikolaiken and Sensburg , from 1928 as rector of a school in Gilgenburg and from 1933 in Lötzen . Since the beginning of the 1930s, he worked as a freelance writer in addition to his teaching profession . From 1939 Buchholtz took part in the Second World War as a captain in the Wehrmacht . In 1941 he was given leave of absence; then he exercised the function of a school council in Heilsberg (East Prussia) . After fleeing from East Prussia, he lived in Braunschweig, Haseldorf , Wedel and Uetersen ; until his retirement in 1958 he was a school councilor in Bremervörde .

Hansgeorg Buchholtz was the author of novels , short stories , books for young people and poems . His work often has the East Prussian landscapes of the Masurian Lakes and the Curonian Spit as a theme or background. In 1959 Buchholtz was awarded the cultural prize of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft in the "Literature" category and in 1961 the youth book prize of the Esslingen Artists' Guild .

Works

  • Love of a child , Leipzig 1932
  • Village under the dune , Koenigsberg 1933
  • Masuria , Königsberg 1933
  • We keep watch , Leipzig 1933
  • The market in Heckenbruch , Leipzig 1934
  • Anuschka , Königsberg 1935
  • A musketeer from Potsdam , Cologne 1935
  • The Dobnik , Königsberg 1936
  • Youth at the border , Cologne 1936
  • The Flieger Thom , Koenigsberg 1937
  • Little Jorgatz , Cologne 1937
  • The great Zapfenstreich , Berlin [u. a.] 1938
  • Nomas Opfer , Cologne 1938
  • Fritz the fisherman's boy , Cologne 1939
  • Reichsehrenmal Tannenberg , Hohenstein, Ostpr. 1939
  • The reaper picked up the scythe , Königsberg 1939
  • Dream and mourning , Königsberg 1942
  • Between heaven, sea and death ... , Bremen 1942
  • In the magic of the Curonian Spit , Königsberg (Pr.) 1943
  • Stranger, are you my brother , Hamburg 1962
  • As far as the streets reach , Baden-Baden 1966

Poems

  • Far from her.

Editing

  • Silent lakes, dark forests , Munich 1956

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Ostpreußenblatt March 17, 1973 / Volume 11 / Page 9 , accessed on May 17, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Buchholtz, Hansgeorg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1979
Place of death Uetersen