Hedwig Lohß

Hedwig Lohß with her boxer Seppl, 1917.

Hedwig Lohß , married Hedwig Staiger-Lohß (born March 4, 1892 in Stuttgart ; † February 12, 1986 there ) was a German writer . From 1920 to 1976 she wrote numerous books, mainly animal, children's and youth books, which were very popular and successful in her time. Today her works are out of print and the writer herself is almost forgotten.

Hedwig Lohß was characterized by a great love of animals. In her house she kept dogs, cats and other small mammals, but also birds, reptiles and amphibians. Her fellow human beings valued her as the “animal mother” who nursed helpless animals back to life. The observation of their pets formed the basis for their animal descriptions.

Life

origin

Hedwig Lohß was born on March 4, 1892 in Stuttgart, the youngest of five children. Her father Wilhelm Lohß (1845 to around 1925) came from a merchant family in Welzheim and was an employee, from 1906 an authorized signatory at the Stahl & Federer bank in Stuttgart. Her mother came from Sulzbach am Kocher and was the daughter of a forester.

The Lohß family lived at Calwer Strasse 24, in one of the two houses in which the Stahl & Federer bank resided. When the “beautiful old patrician house” had to give way to a new building, the family rented an apartment at Calwer Strasse 15 in 1909.

education

From 1898 to 1908 Hedwig Lohß attended the Katharinenstift , a ten-class secondary school for girls in Stuttgart, initially at Friedrichstrasse 34, from 1903 in the current building at Schillerstrasse 5. In her memoirs through the peep window , she wrote in 1972:

“It was just enough for me to spend my first school years at the 'Alten Kathrinenstift'. So my children's feet jumped up and down historical stairs and corridors for four years and walked over quite bumpy, but also time-honored pavement in the schoolyard. "

Nothing is known about their activities in the first few years after graduating from school. Years later, the “animal fool” had “the presumptuous idea of ​​becoming a 'zoologist'”, as she wrote in her memoirs across eight decades of 1976. In the winter semester of 1916/1917 she began studying zoology at the Hohenheim Agricultural University . This information is attested by an essay by her professor Heinrich Ernst Ziegler from 1920, but in her memory book she states that she only started studying after the Second World War. It is not known when and why she gave up studying.

Love of animals

Hedwig's parents both came from rural areas and loved nature, which they had to do without in Stuttgart. The mother was an animal lover like her daughter, and the rental apartments on Calwer Strasse were teeming with pets. For three years in the summer, the family was able to escape the confines of their city apartment to a leased garden on Gänsheide until the area was rededicated as building land.

Hedwig Lohß was a Christian-minded, compassionate woman. She loved people - and animals, which she saw as almost equal living beings. She was known in the neighborhood as a always helpful "animal mother". Although she had a few animals in her care as a child (guinea pigs, fish, lizards, rabbits, cats, hedgehogs), her hottest desire to have children was a dog. Her motto was, as she said, Friedrich Theodor Vischer's saying :

"Without a dog there would be nothing in the world!"

However, the parents could not even soften their most urgent Christmas wish list. After all, a dog came into the family, Flock, a white fox terrier . When this had to be handed in after a year, she joined Leo, who lived in her parents' house as the landlord's watchdog. The black Rottweiler delighted the young girl for a few years before he became a dog butcher victims. Flock and Leo followed Sepp, a boxer who came into Hedwig's care around 1909 as a small baby. After the Second World War, the wire-haired dachshund tinkering was a good companion for 12 years.

Author

Before Hedwig Lohß went public as a writer, she published around 30 photographs with children and animals , travel photos and snapshots from the “home front” (see #Photography ) in the Schwäbisches Bilderblatt from 1914 to 1917 . In 1920 her first book came out, Noah's Ark , in which she described her experiences with her pets. This was followed, mostly year after year, by one or more books and short stories, not only animal books, but also children's and youth stories, children's non-fiction, fairy tales, sagas and legends. She only paused for a few years during World War II.

From 1926 to 1933 Hedwig Lohß provided 35 articles for the magazine Der Schwäbische Jugendfreund , a weekly supplement to the Württemberger Zeitung . This included animal, child and youth stories, poems and play scenes. It is not known whether she also worked for magazines before and after that time.

marriage

Around 1922 Hedwig Lohß married the architect Alfred Staiger (1893–1962), who had studied in Stuttgart from 1920 to 1922. Hedwig Lohß took on the married name Staiger-Lohß, as a writer she continued to use her maiden name. The couple lived with Hedwig's father, who died around 1925 (the mother had probably died earlier), at Calwerstraße 15. In 1930 the couple built a modest house at Straussweg 37 on Gänsheide in Stuttgart. The house was a two-story semi-detached house with approximately 100 square meters of floor space on a plot of approximately 5 acres. Even today, the house is in a quiet location in the countryside, only accessible through a narrow cul-de-sac. The marriage resulted in three children, the eldest son Gottfried "Götz" Staiger (1923–1999), the daughter Christel (* around 1923) and the son Uli (* around 1931).

Retirement

Grave of Hedwig Lohß in the forest cemetery Stuttgart.

Before the beginning of the last decade of her life, Hedwig Lohß published three more books with memoirs in the 1970s. The years did not go by without a trace on the energetic woman. When she was already over 70 years old and once again children brought helpless animals to her to be saved, she said to them:

“Yes, the woman with the animals, I already am! But look, dear children, I am now old, over seventy years! Despite my age, I still have a lot to do and have to toil and struggle to cope with everything that every day entails! "

At the age of 84 she withdrew from life as a writer. She could look back on a life's work of around 40 books and 30 smaller works.

Hedwig Lohß died on February 12, 1986 at the age of almost 94 in Stuttgart. She was buried in Section 5e of the Stuttgart Forest Cemetery. Her husband Alfred Staiger and their son Gottfried Staiger are also lying in the family grave.

Hedwig Lohß had been a housewife and mother, a zookeeper, gardener, photographer and, last but not least, a writer. As an 82-year-old, she once half jokingly drew the sum of her life:

"Oh, the sloppy housewife who so often sat at the desk or went to catch animals with the camera or crouched with the lizards in the garden instead of tidying up and locking her cupboards ..."

Although she delighted a myriad of young and older readers with her stories, her books are now out of print. She, too, is almost forgotten. So far no monograph has appeared, not even an essay dealing with her life and work.

family

A brother of Hedwig's father, Eduard Lohß, who ran a wholesale business for gold goods and watch chains, also lived in Stuttgart. Another brother, Ernst Julius Lohß, whom the family visited often, lived in Beutelsbach .

Hedwig's two brothers were 8 and 20 years older than her, respectively. One of her two sisters was Gretel Schulte, born almost 10 years her senior. Lohß (1883-1953). She attended the Katharinenstift from 1889 and from 1899 to 1901 completed the two-year course of the higher teachers' seminar at the monastery. She then took a job as a private tutor for a German family in Spain and in 1905 married the businessman Hans Schulte. She died in Argentina in 1953, where she had lived with her family for the last four years of her life.

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Hedwig Lohß wrote mainly animal, children's and youth books , besides she also published books with fairy tales , sagas and legends , a popular history of the city of Stuttgart, children's non-fiction books , game books, poems and some biographical sketches.

Her animal descriptions and stories testify to her observation of people and animals. Her "visual material" were her pets and her own children, with whom she probably tried out the effects of her stories and her play and handicraft instructions.

Hedwig Lohß impresses with her charming narrative style. Exciting and refreshing, she lets the reader participate in life with her animals. Her animal descriptions never seem like a teacher, but reflect her love for animals and her own experience. Her children's and youth stories are empathetic and believable, even if the author sometimes plays a little good God to bring about a happy turn. She includes the reader when she addresses them in the middle of a story, for example: “Laugh if you want, if you want” or “Have you ever experienced something so beautiful?” She can also use the word in the middle of the narrative judge one of their dead dogs:

“It is good to speak of you, to let yourself come back to life just as you were. To think of the many beautiful hours in which you jumped next to me on your brave, reliable, crooked paws for twelve years. "

She is not afraid to weave entire sentences in Swabian into her stories, although many of her readers do not understand this dialect. And old, little-known expressions come up again and again, such as “marfelweiß” and “powdered”, or special Swabian expressions such as “hehlingen” and “grate”. Sometimes, when things get too steep, she also adds an explanation, for example: "'Dawald' - what Tannwald should mean". As a Swabian she also likes to use the stylistic device of belittling , especially since she has childish readers in mind, for example: "The little mouse has a soft gray fur and clever black eyes". The often human view of the animals led them to expressions such as “a pretty colorful pigeon lady” or “unmarried pigeon ladies”, “dog lovers” or “dog men 's world”.

Catalog raisonné

Books

The list of Hedwig Lohß's books contains only the first editions.

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year	plant	place	publishing company	illustration	side number
[1920]	Noah's Ark: Stories for people big and small who love animals.	Stuttgart	Perthes	Josef Mauder	113
[1922]	Hans Martin and his village: The story of a childhood friendship.	Gotha	Perthes	Peter Staiger	142
1924	From God's book: Fairy tales and legends.	Stuttgart	Perthes	Georg Fischer	90
[1925]	Peterle's godfather: A fairy tale of the forest and everything that lives and weaves in it.	Stuttgart	Perthes		165
[1925]	Good ride. Sunday thoughts, Volume 7, edited by Hedwig Lohß.	Stuttgart	Publishing house of the Evangelical Volksbund	Erika Hansen	48
1926	The wonder book for our little ones: The first introduction to the world and space.	Stuttgart	Perthes	Eugene Oßwald	223
[1928]	Träumerle: The farmer's wife; two stories for young girls.	Stuttgart	union		143
1928	The zoological garden wonder book for our little ones: The first introduction to the animal world.	Stuttgart	Perthes	Eugene Oßwald	204
[1928]	Drawing games with verses for the little ones.	Ravensburg	O. Maier		32
[1929]	Ursel's Adventure: Stories for the Young.	Stuttgart	union	HR Pfeiffer	171
1930	The wonder book of children's games: a story, play and handicraft book. With a book of transformation.	Stuttgart	Perthes	R. Herdtle Anne Haarer Erika Hansen	216
1931	Womba the turtle: a story from the jungle and the small town.	Stuttgart	Perthes	Martha Welsch	167
1932	From meim Schwalbanescht: [Poems].	Stuttgart	Bonz & Comp.		63
[1932]	Heiner's vacation: [stories].	Stuttgart	Source publishing house		16
1933	The rainbow bowl: narrative.	Stuttgart	Source publishing house		16
1934	Benedikt, the goat boy Benedikt, the goat boy: a legend from ancient times; Narrative.	Stuttgart	Gundert	Otto Palmer	60
1934	About flowers, trees and happy fellows: stories and rhymes.	Stuttgart	Perthes	Tamara Ramsay	147
[1935]	The blind willow farm farmer.	Stuttgart	Source publishing house		16
1936	Old Stuttgart stories and legends: retold by Hedwig Lohß.	Stuttgart	Stone head	Alfred Hugendubel	222
1936	The children from the lake: a story for boys and girls.	Stuttgart	Herold Publishing House		77
1937	Where is Isolde? : a funny story about 4 children and a cat.	Stuttgart	Herold Publishing House	Ernst Kutzer	77
[1937]	The bear cub.	Stuttgart	Christian publishing house		31
1938	Hildegund and Hilduf.	Stuttgart	?		?
1938	Stuttgart, you hometown in the valley ...: A colorful picture book.	Stuttgart	Stone head	Alfred Hugendubel	204
1939	The snowman: a Christmas story.	Wuppertal	Kiefel		31
[1939]	Tonio the circus boy: story.	Stuttgart	Christian publishing house	Karl Vöster	31
1939	Christmas lights: three Christmas stories.	Stuttgart	Christian publishing house		79
1940	The comrades: a story for children.	Wuppertal-Barmen	Kiefel		16
1940	Konrad, the fool: a story for boys and girls.	Wuppertal-Barmen	Kiefel		16
[1940]	Christmas thunderstorms: a story.	Wuppertal-Barmen	Kiefel		32
1941	The goat boy from Tanöben: a story.	Wuppertal-Barmen	Kiefel		32
1941	Great joy in small animals: Domestic experiences with all kinds of creepers, with hedgehogs and funny birds.	Munich	Knorr & Hirth		105
1941	Mold.	Stuttgart	Franckh	Wilhelm Plünneke Artur Mrockwia	152
1941	About Christele, who wanted to become a Christoph: A Christmas story.	Wuppertal-Barmen	Kiefel		32
1941	About Peter and his Schnauzel: A story.	Wuppertal-Barmen	Kiefel		32
[1946]	About finding home and other stories.	Stuttgart	Christian publishing house		79
1948	The story of the dog meeting: narration.	Stuttgart	Christian publishing house	Karl Vöster home	30th
1948	In the light of the holy nights.	Lahr	Merchant	Andreas Meier	48
1949	Lore: A story from the time of the Thirty Years War.	Lahr / Baden	Merchant		16
1949	The Schäflesdorle: grandfather's most beautiful story.	Stuttgart	Publishing house Junge Gemeinde	Elisabeth Schmidt-Stäbler	24
1949	The children's yearbook: stories, poems, puzzles, games and handicraft instructions collected and edited by Hedwig Lohss.	Lahr / Baden	Merchant	Elisabeth Dinkelacker	174
1950	The golden meadow: stories of flowers, trees and happy fellows.	Reutlingen	Ensslin & Laiblin	Hans Baumhauer	211
[1950]	Johann Sebastian Bach.	Lahr / Baden	Merchant		16
1950	The Bird Jacob: The Story of a Man Who Had a Bird.	Stuttgart	Stone head	Alfred Hugendubel	269
1951	Hansel.	Stuttgart	Christian publishing house		31
[1951]	The spider.	Lahr / Baden	Merchant	Horst Kühnel	16
1951	Ursel's darling.	Stuttgart	Loewes publishing house	Heinz Schubel	171
1952	Brother animal: animal stories.	Stuttgart	Christian publishing house		126
1952	The trip to Weißenfels: A story from the childhood of a great musician [Johann Sebastian Bach].	Lahr / Baden	Merchant	Heinz-Wilhelm Heinsohn	16
1953	The two brothers: a Christmas story.	Bethel near Bielefeld	Bethel publishing house		79
1953	Michael and the Christmas bunny.	Bethel near Bielefeld	Bethel publishing house		7th
1953	Great joy in the little animal. With 38 shots. 2nd significantly expanded edition.	Munich	Knorr & Hirth	Hedwig Lohß (34 photos) Hermann Fischer-Wahrenholz (4 photos)	175
1954	Light in the dark: 2 Christmas memories.	Bethel near Bielefeld	Bethel publishing house		16
1954	Four from a Nest: The Story of an Animal Family.	Stuttgart	Christian publishing house	Magdalena Welter	31
[1955]	Poor little Peterle! … : A Christmas Story.	Wuppertal-Barmen	Kiefel		31
1955	Maria Andreae, the first pharmacist.	Lahr / Baden	Merchant		15th
1957	Dick and his cat.	Hanover	Gundert	Karl Eckle	61
1957	Our monkey Koko: From a monkey and two children.	Reutlingen	Ensslin & Laiblin	Irene Schreiber	131
1959	A girl on the move: from the Black Forest to Provence.	Reutlingen	Ensslin & Laiblin		208
1961	Dina and the people from the sunny corner.	Hanover	Gundert	Karl Eckle	75
1962	Augustle or Der Wortbruch and other animal stories.	Lahr	Merchant		160
[1963]	"To the Golden Bear" and other stories.	Stuttgart-Sillenbuch	Publisher Golden Words		116
1965	Take care, Uli!	Wuppertal	R. Brockhaus		123
1965	The sun brings it out.	Metzingen	Brunnquell-Verlag		24
1966	Miss Irene and her canary.	Metzingen	Brunnquell-Verlag		24
1969	The Hansel from Heckenweg.	Metzingen	Brunnquell-Verlag		24
1969	The shepherd and his dog.	Metzingen	Brunnquell-Verlag		24
1970	For the cat.	Metzingen	Brunnquell-Verlag		24
1972	Through the peep window: childhood memories from old Stuttgart.	Mühlacker	goldfinch	Christine von Kalckreuth	224
1974	Animals in my life.	Mühlacker	goldfinch		231
1976	Across eight decades: stories.	Mühlacker	goldfinch		135

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year	Contribution	source	page
1920	[About the arithmetic dogs "Rolf" and "Seppl"].	#Ziegler 1920	6-9
1926	Christmas fairy tale. A Christmas game for children.	The Swabian childhood friend	189-191
1927	About the snow and the snowdrop.	The Swabian childhood friend	23
1927	The owl.	The Swabian childhood friend	37-39, 41-42
1927	Fritz Braun, the cockchafer.	The Swabian childhood friend	75
1927	The Ascension Tour	The Swabian childhood friend	83
1927	The stingy boy.	The Swabian childhood friend	99-100
1927	Christmas premonition.	The Swabian childhood friend	200
1927	Disorder.	The Schwabenspiegel	367-368
1927	The hard way.	The Schwabenspiegel	404
1927	The shepherds.	The Schwabenspiegel	406
1927	Disagreements.	The Swabian family friend	180
1928	Crossbeak legend.	The Swabian childhood friend	53-54.59
1929	An Easter story.	The Swabian childhood friend	49-50
1929	The legend of Gryllos.	The Swabian childhood friend	115
1929	Queen of the Night.	The Schwabenspiegel	10
1929	Travel time.	The Schwabenspiegel	208
1930	A happy food table.	The Swabian childhood friend	27-28
1930	Our turtle.	The Swabian childhood friend	118-119
1930	How Davidle found a brother. Christmas story.	The Swabian childhood friend	201-202, 205-206
1931	The Examination of the Ten B.	The Swabian childhood friend	1-2, 5-7
1931	Joko. It's a strange story.	The Swabian childhood friend	89-90, 93-94
1931	The lucky bird. Narrative.	The Swabian childhood friend	113-114, 117-119
1931	A failure.	The Swabian childhood friend	152
1931	Anton.	The Swabian childhood friend	153-154
1931	Elisabeth of Thuringia. For her 700th birthday.	The Swabian childhood friend	173-175
1931	The Sterntaler.	The Swabian childhood friend	194-196
1931	The Christmas lantern.	The Swabian childhood friend	196
1932	An alliance.	The Swabian childhood friend	37-38
1932	The Hunder People meal.	The Swabian childhood friend	44
1932	When I was confirmed.	The Swabian childhood friend	46-47
1932	The Pentecost trip.	The Swabian childhood friend	74-75
1932	The Lindau wine.	The Swabian childhood friend	101-102
1932	D 'women three.	The Swabian childhood friend	104
1932	Schwobn me!	The Swabian childhood friend	116
1932	The holiday boy.	The Swabian childhood friend	121-123, 125-126
1932	Holiday experience at home.	The Swabian childhood friend	159-160
1932	St. Martin's Day.	The Swabian childhood friend	179-180
1932	Shari. A dog story.	The Swabian childhood friend	181-182
1932	Knecht Ruprecht. At a Christmas party in tough times.	The Swabian childhood friend	195
1932	Children's Christmas.	The Swabian childhood friend	202-203
1933	Miss Irene and her canary.	The Swabian childhood friend	9-10
1933	The Easter bunny from the Spatzenhof.	The Swabian childhood friend	57-58
1933	How the Wolframshalde got its name.	The Swabian childhood friend	61-62
1933	Hans Ungericht and the three bread.	The Swabian childhood friend	98-99
1933	The blue elephant. A childhood memory of "Cherry Peter".	The Swabian childhood friend	103
1933	Why the little kids can't walk	The Swabian childhood friend	116
1933	A hero story.	The Swabian childhood friend	149-150, 153-154
1933	Mother hen.	The Swabian childhood friend	167
1933	The lace cloth.	The Swabian childhood friend	173-174

photography

It is not known when Hedwig Lohß was allowed to own her first camera. From October 1914 , photos of the 23-year-olds appeared in the Schwäbisches Bilderblatt , the weekly supplement to the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt , with the copyright notice “Phot. H. Lohß, Stuttgart “. By the end of 1917 she published 29 photos including short captions in the Schwäbisches Bilderblatt . The motives of her photos were:

• Scenes from children: rows of rings, “The last acorns for the Red Cross”, small children in the lion cage, “Bubi sends his father a package”, small boy with a dog (a gift from his father who fought in France).
• Home during the war: national women's service , young boys' war games.
• Soldiers on home leave: "The father came home - he was kidding - first his child" (soldier with his child in his arms), soldiers as helpers with wool winding, on hay leave, as linden blossom pickers.
• Animal scenes:
  • “The Seppel as a messenger of love”. Hedwig's boxer Seppel used a fruit basket in his mouth to take care of injured soldiers in the hospital during the First World War.
  • "A Christmas package thief". In the "Still Life", Hedwig's tame jay Jakob attacks a field post package.
• Travel pictures from Alsace, Westende and Munich.
• Photos of trips to Beutelsbach, Schorndorf and Welzheim.

Her captions were popular with her newspaper editor, who encouraged her to write articles and books. She worked for the Evangelical Press Association and the Württemberger Zeitung and published her first book in 1920.

"Sepp, the calculating dog"

Paula Moekel teaches her dog Rolf, 1913

Hedwig Lohß 'boxer Seppl was eight years old when his happy owner decided in 1916 to theoretically underpin her love of animals and to start studying veterinary medicine at the Hohenheim Agricultural University (which she did not complete). In an animal psychology lecture given by Professor Heinrich Ernst Ziegler, she found out about a calculating and spelling dog in Mannheim. She summarized her position on this issue at the time as follows:

“In spite of all my love of dogs, I never really could believe in the spelling, arithmetic and answering of horses and dogs. ... imagination, involuntary signaling, in the highest case thought transference! that was my opinion. "

She wanted to see for herself and visited the Moekel family and their dog Rolf in Mannheim. Apparently the dog mastered the four basic arithmetic operations and communicated its arithmetic results with a corresponding number of knocking signals. With the help of a number alphabet, Rolf even gave meaningful answers to questions by tapping.

Hedwig Lohß with the calculating Seppl, 1917.

Hedwig reported it to her professor and began to teach her own dog. She managed to teach her dog to do arithmetic and to talk to him by asking him questions, which he answered by knocking. However, she was deeply suspicious of whether she was giving the dog the desired answers through her unconscious behavior. However, when Seppl knocked on the sentence WILIGARNIMRDA on her own initiative, she only recognized the meaning of the message she hadn't planned: “Willi never there” (her brother Willi had finished his leave the day before). This convinced her that there could not be an influence that was unconscious of herself.

She willingly demonstrated her dog's skills to anyone interested. She and her professor presented her Seppl three times in charity events for the Red Cross in the Königsbau in Stuttgart in front of an audience of several hundred people. One of the spectators, a Baron von Moltke from Munich, judged:

“Fräulein Lohß had a high level of self-criticism. When she noticed that Seppl answered better when she knew the answer, she always asked the dog a number of questions, the answer of which she did not know. "

In 1920 she brought out her first book Noah's Ark , in which she also dedicated a chapter to “Sepp the calculating dog”. In it she wrote: “Today he is 'the calculating dog', he was in all the newspapers, now recognized, now hostile.” Professor Ziegler reported on Hedwig's successes in the same year in the “Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Tierpsychologie” in which he wrote hers Report printed. When she published a review of her life with animals in her book "Criss-Cross Through Eight Decades" in 1976, she remarked somewhat bitterly:

"Back at home [from her visit to the Mannheim dog Rolf], I also taught my 'Seppl' the same arts and with it - and that for almost a generation - the zoologists of that time brought on the most violent opponents ... "

Even today, the scientific community does not seem to have reached a final judgment about the "number-speaking animals".

Wisdom

Hedwig Lohß liked to sprinkle simple wisdom into her stories about her animals. Here is a small selection:

• But what are resolutions!
• How often in our life is a "too late!" Problematic! And how many self-blame revolve around these two little words.
• “Food!” Is the top law that comes first with all my animals and must be written in capital letters. Is it much different with us humans -? Doesn't almost all of a housewife's thinking revolve around the nourishment of the body? And - not ultimately everyone who works just for their daily bread - does not matter whether it consists of potatoes and sour milk or crabs and artichokes, and it does not matter whether it is consumed in a modest eat-in kitchen or in a luxurious hotel on the Riviera becomes? Feed!
• In the yard the farmer was harnessing his horse. He turned around, saw the puppy, grabbed a beanstalk that was leaning in a corner, and pounded the tiny dachshund furiously with the end of the long, springy stick, as if slaying a dangerous, venomous snake. I never forget the rough man's twisted face. And I still have the scream of horror in my ears from the little animal that has never before experienced anything bad.
• A dog lover once said to me: "It's worth going out here and there by yourself just to experience the indescribable joy of the dog when you come home ...!"
• Our hatchback [dog] has only made us happy all his life. Could that be said of many people?

It sounds like a life motto when she closes her book "Animals in my Life" with these words:

• Oh, dear people, nobody can slip out of his skin. I believe I will never be able to stop helping every animal, every "little brother" who is in distress, as long as the Lord God gives me the strength to do so. He gave it to me, too, the love of animals, the joy of all his creatures, and he made my life richer, more colorful and more beautiful with it.

literature

• Henny Jutzler-Kindermann; Matthias Dräger (editor): Can animals think? : a book on the mind and nature of animals. With an afterword by Johannes Abresch. St. Goar 2000, pdf , especially pages 217-224.
• Aiga Klotz: Children's and youth literature in Germany: 1840–1950; Complete list of publications in German. Volume 3: L-Q. Stuttgart 1994, pages 83-85.
• Carl Benjamin Klunzinger : A visit to the clever dog Rolf plus parallel observations on other animals and animal psychological and other considerations. In: Annual Books of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg, Volume 70, 1914, Pages 217-254, pdf .
• Heinrich Ernst Ziegler: About the Mannheim dog "Rolf" and the Stuttgart dog "Seppl". In: Communications from the Society for Animal Psychology , New Series, Issue 1, 1920, pages 6–12, pdf .

Web links

Commons : Hedwig Lohß  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ # Kollmer-von Oheimb-Loup 2009 , pp. 203-206.
2. ↑ # Lohß 1972 , page 12.
3. ^ Stuttgart address books 1884–1925.
4. ↑ # Lohß 1972 , page 61.
5. ↑ This is what she often called herself with a wink.
6. ↑ # Lohß 1976 , page 54.
7. ↑ # Lohß 1976 , page 54, # Ziegler 1920 .
8. ↑ # Lohß 1920.1 , page 51.
9. ↑ “The Poodle.” In: # Lohß 1976 , pp. 20–31.
10. ↑ # Lohß 1976 , pp. 91-103.
11. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , pp. 183-209.
12. ^ Alfred Staiger family grave in the forest cemetery in Stuttgart , Department 5e.
13. ^ Alfred Staiger family grave in the forest cemetery in Stuttgart , Department 5e.
14. ^ # Lohß 1938.2 , intent, Stuttgarter Zeitung , number 52, March 3, 1972.
15. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 221.
16. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 35.
17. ↑ # Lohß 1972 , page 204, circular books of the 26th teacher training course in the Katharinenstift Stuttgart .
18. ↑ Gerd Leibrock, October 21, 2016.
19. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 97; # Lohß 1920.1 , page 57.
20. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 183.
21. ↑ # Lohß 1920.1 , page 62.
22. ↑ Excerpt ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from # Lohß 1955.2 . 
23. ↑ Schwäbisches Bilderblatt : 1914, issue 41, 45, 47, 48, 51; 1915, issues 12, 16, 20, 43, 46, 51; 1916, issues 9, 23, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33; 1916, No. 8, 35, 36, 47; 1917, 8, 35, 36, 47.
24. ↑ # Lohß 1920.1 , page 102.
25. ↑ # Lohß 1920.1 , page 73.
26. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung , number 52, March 3, 1972, number 189, August 17, 1992.
27. ↑ # Lohß 1920.1 , page 104.
28. ↑ Paula Moekel, the dog's educator, died in 1915. Hedwig Lohß met her husband and daughter in Mannheim.
29. ↑ # Jutzler-Kindermann 2000 , page 223.
30. ↑ # Lohß 1920.1 , page 104.
31. ↑ #Ziegler 1920 .
32. ↑ # Lohß 1976 , page 55.
33. ↑ # Jutzler-Kindermann 2000 , pp. 257–266.
34. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 143.
35. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 155.
36. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 166.
37. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 190.
38. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 190.
39. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 209.
40. ↑ # Lohß 1974 , page 230.