Heinrich Dreisbach
Heinrich Dreisbach (born February 20, 1881 in Flörsheim am Main , † August 9, 1967 in Flörsheim am Main) was a German publisher , local poet and recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit .
Life and family
parents house
Heinrich came from an old and large Flörsheim family and was able to trace his roots back to the 17th century, which he later did in his genealogical research . His grandfather Jakob Dreisbach alone had 21 children, all from a woman, 12 of whom survived childhood.
Heinrich's father was the 4th of the children and was also called Jakob (* July 12, 1847 in Flörsheim am Main; † May 4, 1904). He was a maltster by profession . Heinrich's mother was Maria Dorothea Heidelbach (born August 7, 1852 in Alsfeld , † April 27, 1892). The parents' marriage took place on April 17, 1879.
Heinrich was born on February 20, 1881. He remained - very unusual for his time - an only child. His mother had more children, but they died soon after the birth.
At the age of 11 he lost his mother. His father married again soon afterwards and from this marriage Heinrich had a stepbrother, Karl, who died in the First World War .
family
At the age of 21, on July 26, 1902, Heinrich married Anna Dörrhöfer, who was one year younger than him (born May 10, 1882 in Flörsheim am Main; † October 21, 1950). She was a white goods seamstress and had her own sewing room in which she also trained young seamstresses. In the early days, she made an important contribution to the family income.
In the same year the eldest son was born, also named Heinrich after his father. Since he followed his father not only in name but also professionally and voluntarily, father and son were named Heinrich sen. and Heinrich jun. spoken. At that time the family lived on Bleichstrasse. In 1903 the second son Karl was born.
The family then moved to Wickerer Straße, where Heinrich's workplace was also located. In 1905 the first daughter Änni was born there, and a year later the second daughter Maria.
In 1908 Heinrich acquired the new building on Karthäuserstraße. The twin girls Helene and Else were born there in the same year, but Else died of them. The last child Dora followed in 1911.
His six children gave Heinrich 17 grandchildren, including his granddaughter Hannelore Sievers and their daughter Heinrich junior, who took over the newspaper publisher with her husband Jürgen in 1975. Heinrich also had 15 great-grandchildren during his lifetime, including Christian Sievers, Hannelore's son and today's owner of Heinrich-Dreisbach-Verlag.
death
Heinrich's wife Anna died at the age of 68 on October 21, 1950. At that time there was only the burial site in Flörsheim, which is now known as the "Old Cemetery". Heinrich acquired a double grave in which he wanted to be embedded when he died.
Heinrich himself lived for another 17 years and died at the age of 86 on August 9, 1967. In the meantime there was a new cemetery, which is still located on the outskirts of Flörsheim. Heinrich Dreisbach had become a prominent citizen through his professional work and great commitment to his hometown. At the request of Flörsheim's mayor Josef Anna, he was buried in the new cemetery with the newly built cemetery chapel and his wife was reburied with him.
The family grave can still be seen in the new cemetery today. In addition to Heinrich and Anna, the eldest son Heinrich jun. And Mrs. Magdalena and her son Karlheinz are buried here.
Professional background
The early years
Heinrich learned the printing trade in the Gutenberg town of Eltville am Rhein in 1895 and thus became Flörsheim's first printer. His trade qualification in 1904 was the Swiss sword , which meant that he was both a printer and a typesetter. The award certificate is still hanging in the Heinrich-Dreisbach-Verlag today.
On December 1, 1904, Heinrich joined the Erwin Reeder publishing house, which the year before had opened an independent branch of the “Schiersteiner Zeitung” in Flörsheim. Since 1897 the "Flörsheimer Zeitung" has been published and printed here as a sub-edition. On January 1, 1905, Heinrich was promoted to branch manager - but that meant at the time that he was typesetter, printer and local editor in one person.
The own print shop
Three years later, on February 1, 1907, Heinrich Dreisbach and three other publishing assistants bought the company and they founded the “Vereinbuchdruckerei Flörsheim”. Heinrich was now solely responsible for Flörsheim and a year later in October also the sole owner.
In 1922 Heinrich bought the competing "Flörsheimer Anzeiger". In 1924 an additional newspaper appeared, the "Hochheimer Stadtanzeiger". In 1935 another competing newspaper, the "Flörsheimer Nachrichten", was bought.
The war and post-war period
Under pressure from the National Socialist Reich Press Chamber , the Flörsheimer Zeitung was forcibly leased in 1943 and the publishing house's machines were confiscated. After the war, the American occupation command again approved the publication of a notice sheet, which was now published by Heinrich Dreisbach jun. and his son Karlheinz was led.
The fact that Heinrich managed to get Flörsheim's own newspaper helped the town on the Main stand out from its neighboring communities. Even today, the "Flörsheimer Zeitung" founded by Heinrich is published once a week by Verlag Dreisbach GmbH under its original name and is run by Heinrich's great-grandson Christian Sievers.
Other activities
His hometown Flörsheim was also close to Heinrich's heart beyond professional interests. He kept a record of his life in around 30 booklets and also described a lot from the life of his time, which he also published in parts. Some of the booklets were also published in other forms, such as cassette and hardcover, and now have a certain antiquarian value. Heinrich told serious like Heiteres from his hometown, such as the last words of an old woman on her deathbed that nothing wanted more than to have at least the carnival to survive.
Heinrich was also together with his son Heinrich jun. Co-founder of the Flörsheim Carneval Association 1928 eV He wrote a series of poems and verses, the content of which was always based on actual Flörsheim events that took place between 1880 and 1930.
In addition, Heinrich felt very connected to the Flörsheimer Heimatverein, in which the local researcher of his time, u. a. the then Mayor of Flörsheim Jakob Lauck, worked. He supported her work with publications in his newspaper, thus ensuring that much of what was gathered about Flörsheim was preserved. In 1966 for the 300th “betrothed day” Heinrich published a festschrift in his publishing house, in which he and his son Heinrich jun. were also involved in terms of content.
A contemporary of Heinrich, the politician Jakob Altmaier , had a regular column in the Flörsheimer Zeitung since 1914, in which he wrote letters to the editor to his fellow citizens in the “Flerschemer” dialect under the pseudonym “Gänskippelschorsch” dealing with local events. A monument was dedicated to this figure in the 1960s, which Heinrich Dreisbach designed himself and which can still be seen on the banks of the Main today.
Honors
Federal Cross of Merit
On October 14, 1961, Federal President Heinrich Lübke awarded the now 80-year-old Heinrich Dreisbach the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon. It was presented by District Administrator Dr. Joseph Wagenbach in the Kolping Hall of the former "Schützenhof", who thought of Heinrich with the following words in the award speech:
"Not only as a master craftsman and newspaper publisher, but also as a champion of the Flörsheimer Heimatverein, as a sponsor of the Flörsheimer Museum, as the author of various local antics and as a sponsor to keep the betrothed day alive, Heinrich Dreisbach has made a name for himself in the town of Flörsheim over the past seven decades has sound far beyond that. "
A street of its own
43 years after his death, the city of Flörsheim honored its well-known son with a street of its own in the new “Kirchgewann” building area, which is not far from his former print shop on Wickerer Straße. On May 2, 2010 the street sign "Heinrich-Dreisbach-Weg" was unveiled by Mayor Michael Antenbrink and Heinrich's great-grandson Christian Sievers. Granddaughter Hannelore Sievers recited one of Heinrich's own homeland poems in “Flerschemer Platt” at the ceremony. Mayor Antenbrink summed up:
“With the naming of the path, the building area is opened up. Heinrich Dreisbach is an ideal namesake, with his courage to publish his own local newspaper for "Flecken Flörsheim", pointing the way for the development of his hometown. "
bibliography
Works
- “All sorts of joy and laughter”, divided into funny, grotesque, carnevalistic, contemplative and fidelity
- "Colorful at a good hour", divided into serious, cheerful and Flörsheimensien
- “Ernst and Scherz fer Kopp and Herz”, four parts
- "Every now and then in the curriculum vitae", four parts, also as a cassette and a bound book
- “Joys and sorrows from a distant past”, about my own experiences
swell
- Flörsheimer Zeitung No. 17/114 of April 29, 2010
- Flörsheimer Zeitung No. 18/114 of May 6, 2010
- "Past, forgotten, changed", Hannelore Sievers, Verlag Dreisbach GmbH 2004, ISBN 3-9800541-1-X
- Correspondence with Heinrich's granddaughter Hannelore Sievers, February - July 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on December 21, 1961 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1962 No. 1 , p. 1 , point 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.8 MB ]).
Web links
- Verlag Dreisbach: Small publisher's history in numbers (accessed on May 22, 2014)
- A historical time rally for children
- Archive of the Flörsheimer Zeitung of the Hessian State Library Wiesbaden
- The history of the Flörsheim Carnival Association
- The city map of Flörsheim
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dreisbach, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher and local poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flörsheim am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1967 |
| Place of death | Flörsheim am Main |