Herbert Clauss

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Herbert Clauss (born April 9, 1907 in Schwarzenberg ; † May 5, 2005 in Quakenbrück ) was a German folklorist and local researcher .

Life

Herbert Clauß came from Schwarzenberg in the western Ore Mountains , where he was born in 1907 as the son of Edwin Clauss, who later became the Zwickau chief railway secretary. After attending a secondary school, he attended the teachers' seminar in Zwickau to become an elementary school teacher. He then studied at the University of Leipzig German, history and sport, where he in 1933 at the Faculty with a dialect geographical study of the history and language of Saxony and Bohemia West Erzgebirge at Fritz Karg and Theodor Frings to Dr. phil. received his doctorate . He found his first job as a teacher at the grammar school in Schneeberg . His military service in the Wehrmacht ended in Soviet captivity, during which he was deported to Siberia for five years. After returning to Germany, he was initially deployed underground by the SDAG Wismut . He then took over the management of the Museum of Mining Folk Art in Schneeberg and finally got a position as senior assistant to Friedrich Sieber at the Institute for German Folklore in Dresden, which is affiliated to the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . He presented several mostly folkloric publications about his homeland, even after he and his family had left the GDR in 1957.

He settled in Quakenbrück in the Osnabrück region, where he lived and worked until his death in 2005. He worked as a teacher at the Artland High School there. In addition, he was involved in the Bersenbrück District Home Association , for which he took over the editing of the "Mitteilungen" and "Schriftenreihe". He edited the local supplements Bersenbrücker Kreisblatt and Bramscher Nachrichten of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung up to the age of 75.

Works (selection)

  • History and language of the Saxon-Bohemian Western Ore Mountains. Halle / Saale 1934.
  • Zwickau , 1st edition Leipzig 1953; 2nd edition Leipzig 1954 ( Our little traveling booklet , 12)
  • Free mountain and measured inheritance. Investigations into the early history of Freiberg mining and the development of inheritance (with Siegfried Kube ) Berlin 1957.
  • The Ore Mountains. Country and people. (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • House inscriptions of the Bersenbrück district. Quakenbrück 1973.

literature

  • Heinrich Böning: Dr. Herbert Clauß † , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch für das Osnabrücker Land, (2006), pp. 307–308. ISSN  1618-5757

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Student index  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Leipzig University Archives, accessed on June 30, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / recherche.archiv.uni-leipzig.de  
  2. ↑ a b c Heinrich Böning: Dr. Herbert Clauß † , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch für das Osnabrücker Land, (2006), pp. 307–308. ISSN  1618-5757
  3. ↑ Information in the Leipzig University Archives.
  4. ^ Yearbook of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1957 , Akademie-Verlag 1959, p. 100.
personal data
SURNAME Clauss, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzenberg
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2005
Place of death Quakenbrück