Heinrich Eggersglüß

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Eggersglüß (born March 10, 1875 in Untereinzingen , † July 6, 1932 in Braunschweig ) was a German local poet. He was called the "heath poet".

Life

Heinrich Eggersglüß was born on the farm of his parents (house number 16 (Rehr)), the mining farmer Heinrich Friedrich Jacob Eggersglüß and Ilse Magdalene Engel Eggersglüß, born. Oelfke , born and raised here. They lived in the house of the Cohrshof. The Rehr house was demolished in 1895.

Eggersglüß first attended the one-class school in Obereinzingen and later the school in Dorfmark .

After leaving school, he was initially an agricultural worker ( farmhand ) in Einzingen. In 1895 he joined the 79th Infantry Regiment in Hildesheim as a soldier . In 1898 he started working for the railroad and became a train driver on April 1, 1915, railway secretary in Hildesheim on December 1, 1921, and in 1922 train inspector at the Braunschweig traffic office.

On June 6, 1900, he went to Lauenstein marriage to Johanna Rust, born on February 7, 1879 in Lauenstein, a. The marriage is said to have had two children.

There is a memorial for him in Dorfmark , Heidekreis district ; there is also a street named after him here.

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Heideklänge (volume of poems 1908)
In the Völkerringen (poetry book 1914)
Journeymen (collection of poems 1916)
Oh, my fatherland (collection of poems 1916)
Holy Fire (collection of poems 1920)
Kämerhöfen (novel 1921)
The Ballads (1922)
The deserter of Langensalza (drama 1922)
The Last Standard (Drama)
Boulders (collection of poems and proverbs 1925)
A Railway Worker's Diary (1927)

Connected to the Heidmark

Eggersglüß was connected to the Heidmark , his homeland, all his life. This can also be seen, for example, in this poem, which he was inspired to write on the Seven Stone Houses :

At the barrow

Quiet the night, on the Hünenstein I sank tired
and the darkness envelops me in a
soft and warm and blissful drunkenness

Heath, dreariness, moor and reed
murmur all around from youthful dreams
And there another song flutters
in the white birch trees

Old, familiar melodies
"Shepherd boy, shepherd boy"
And I listen, I agree a
happy intoxication at the Hünengraben

literature

Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 155.
Hans Stuhlmacher: The Heidmark. CV Engelhard, Hanover 1939

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personal data
SURNAME	Eggersglüß, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eggersglüß, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German homeland poet
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Unteinzingen
DATE OF DEATH	July 6, 1932
Place of death	Braunschweig