Heinrich Specht

Heinrich Specht (born January 4, 1885 in Diemke- Wallenbrück , Herford district , † June 18, 1952 in Nordhorn ) was a German teacher, local historian and politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

After primary school, Heinrich Specht attended the preparatory institute in Melle from 1899 to 1902 , the teachers' seminar in Osnabrück from 1902 to 1905 and passed his second teacher examination in 1907. In 1912 he passed his secondary school teacher examination in Hanover and the rector examination there in 1914 . He took a leave of absence from school and studied natural sciences and philosophy at the University of Jena.

In 1905 his first job as a teacher at elementary and secondary schools took him to Uelsen in the county of Bentheim . From 1905 to 1907 he taught at the village school in what is now the Nordhorn district of Hesepe, from 1910 to 1914 in Schüttorf and from 1914 to 1917 at the teachers' college in Emden . In autumn 1917 he became the headmaster of the Altendorfer School in Nordhorn , where he stayed until his retirement.

Shortly after founding the Heimatverein Grafschaft Bentheim in 1910, he became a member and was elected to the board in 1918. In this capacity he was responsible for the first since 1920, appearing as a newspaper supplement Grafschafter and edited the Grafschafter Heimatkalender. From 1925 he was also active as an editor of magazines and books about the county of Bentheim and the border area Germany-Netherlands. His first series of publications, which appeared monthly until 1932, was named Das Bentheimer Land . In the same year he was appointed chairman of the Heimatverein. In 1934 he presented an extensive work with his local history of a border district, which was used to organize local history lessons in the district. His series of publications Der Bentheimer Heimatbote appeared from 1935, but was soon discontinued, whereas Das Bentheimer Land continued with various extensive works until 1941. In addition, he published numerous articles in Grafschafter and Osnabrück newspapers, mostly on local history, but also political pamphlets against the demands of the Guelphs to separate Hanover from Prussia or to promote a high school in Nordhorn.

politics

Heinrich Specht was, in addition to his local history writing, an avid politician. In November 1918 he became a member of the board of the " Workers and Soldiers Council in Groß-Nordhorn". From 1918 to 1933 he belonged to the conservative German People's Party and was temporarily a member of the Nordhorn city council. After the National Socialists came to power on August 1, 1933, he joined the National Socialist Teachers' Association (membership number 154763) and the Reichskolonialbund, in 1934 the RLB (No. 1385), the National Socialist People's Welfare (No. 3467977), Nazi war gravesite (No. . 3298) and in 1940 joined the NSDAP . At the same time, Specht belonged to a conservative resistance group in the Bentheimer Land.

The fact that he was able to publish at all in times of the lack of war economy was due to his good contacts to folk local studies, especially to the Provincial Institute for Regional Planning, Regional and Folklore of Lower Saxony (Hanover / Göttingen) and there to Kurt Brüning . He repeatedly applied for paper deliveries from him and the Reich Chamber of Culture and received most of them by the summer of 1944. His and the publication activities of the Heimatverein were restricted in the Second World War, but did not come to a complete standstill.

A yearbook was published again after 1945. In 1951 he published his last extensive treatment of a special topic with the history of the Wietmarschen monastery and foundation.

After the Second World War he was appointed a member of the Bentheim district council and then the elected district council. At times he was deputy district administrator in the Grafschaft Bentheim district. From May 6, 1951 to June 18, 1952, he was an SPD member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (2nd electoral period).

Works (selection)

• 1919: The unified school concept and the urban school system in the Grafschaft Bentheim
• 1922: The Schüttorf church and parish during the Thirty Years' War
• 1925: The home soil
• 1927: De kloke Jan van Wilsum
• 1934: Local history of a border district
• 1938: Bridges and gates of the city of Nordhorn
• 1940: The bird world of the Grafschaft Bentheim
• 1941: Nordhorn
• 1941: City and economic history of Nordhorn
• 1941: Coat of arms and seal of the city of Nordhorn
• 1947: The high and low hunt in the German-Dutch border area (Grafschaft Bentheim)
• 1947: The glass carriage
• 1950: Holy fires
• 1950: Our daily bread
• 1951: Wietmarschen monastery and monastery
• 1953 (posthumously): The County of Bentheim

literature

• Helmut Lensing: Art. Specht, Heinrich, in: Studiengesellschaft für Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 13, Haselünne 2006, pp. 399–424 (with list of publications).
• Christoph Schütte: Parties and elections in Nordhorn. In: Clemens von Looz-Corswarem / Michael Schmitt: Nordhorn. Contributions to the city's 600-year history. Pp. 275–332, Nordhorn 1979. (Workers 'and Soldiers' Council, etc.)
• Gerd Steinwascher: A bourgeois resistance group in the Grafschaft Bentheim district during the Nazi era, in: Bentheimer Jahrbuch 1996 (Das Bentheimer Land vol. 135), Bad Bentheim 1995, pp. 207–220.
• Heinrich Voort: Heinrich Specht shaped the homework. Der Grafschafter, 1985 No. 10, p. 39
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 364.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Specht in the catalog of the German National Library