Hermann Klostermann

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Friedrich Heinrich Hermann Klostermann (born March 28, 1839 in Retzin ; † unknown) was a 19th century German poacher in the Eggegebirge , Sauerland and Waldeck area . His life and work was the template for numerous literary representations, mostly in which he was referred to as Wildschütz Klostermann .

Live and act

Hermann Klostermann was born on March 28, 1839 as the son of the miller Johannes Joachim Heinrich Klostermann and his wife in Retzin. The couple had another son and daughter. Johannes Klostermann died in 1843; Hermann Klostermann's mother then married Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Dalchow a year later, with whom she had a son and a daughter. Dalchow was appointed forest overseer in Hakenberg on November 1, 1855 . From 1857 to 1859 Klostermann did his military service with the 15th Line Regiment in Minden . During this time, on July 26, 1858, his mother died; the stepfather married again on January 30, 1859, this time Friederica Dorothea Regina Gossow, daughter of the forester from Dahl . In the same year he was transferred to Mittelwald near Scherfede .

Hermann Klostermann was first put on record on July 14, 1862 for poaching in the area of ​​the Hardehausen Forest District. Poaching was a common crime in forestry at the time. Klostermann was arrested in October 1862 and was probably sentenced to prison. After his release in 1865, he formed a gang and poached again. On October 1, 1867, the Hardehausener chief forester Joseph Freiherr von Wrede was shot while on patrol near Blankenrode . Klostermann came under suspicion, even if von Wrede, who knew Klostermann personally, initially denied that it was Klostermann who shot him and that he had an alibi. The Prussian government offered a reward of 200 thalers. On February 1, 1868, the forester Heinemann was critically injured near Rhoden . The act was attributed to Klostermann, who evaded arrest on the night of February 4th to 5th and was then wanted on a wanted list. On May 24, the military tried to arrest Klostermann in Orper Grund and shot his companion Johann Lohoff from Oesdorf . On the night of June 13-14, Klostermann was arrested in Brilon and taken to Paderborn . There, from November 12th to 14th, a trial at the jury court took place under the direction of the Warburg district court director Joseph Weingärtner , which caused a stir. Klostermann was sentenced to eight years in prison, but released again after six years. On 19./20. In June 1880 he was caught poaching again and arrested. He was sentenced to five years in prison and a loss of honor. Shortly after his release, he was arrested again for Christmas 1885. During the eight-day detention, a forest official advised him to emigrate to America on behalf of the state. Klostermann refused this offer, referring to his poor health. He was transferred to Paderborn and served a three-week prison sentence there. Where he went after the end of his sentence is unknown, as is the date and place of his death. It is speculated that he ended up in southern Germany, opened a fish trade in Mecklenburg, or stayed in East Westphalia and was buried there in 1907. "There is no verifiable evidence for any of these claims."

Aftermath

As early as 1865, newspaper articles were circulating about Klostermann, the truth of which is doubtful and the creation of legends began. Jodocus Donatus Hubertus Temme wrote a novel about Klostermann in 1872, Rudolf Gödde followed in 1935 and Georg Servais under the pseudonym Thomas Ruf in 1938.

The Westheim brewery sells a naturally cloudy beer under the name Wildschütz Klostermann.

The marketing community of the city of Lichtenau (Westphalia) organized the Wildschütz Klostermann market every two years . As a regionally important economic show, the market deals with the topics of nature, forest, game, agriculture and renewable energies.

literature

  • Hans-Dieter Hibbeln: The Wildschütz Hermann Klostermann. The poacher Hermann Klostermann. Truth and legend? In: Die Warte e. V. (Ed.): The waiting room . Home magazine for the Paderborn and Höxter districts. No. 80 , 1993, ISSN  0939-8686 ( wildschuetz-klostermann.de [accessed on November 10, 2010]).
  • Peter Bürger : Start a song! Self-inventors, bon vivants and minorities in the Sauerland. Eslohe 2014, pp. 413–468.
  • Peter Bürger: Hermann Klostermann. The most popular poacher in Westphalia and his continued life in literary myths . Norderstedt, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7448-5055-1
  • Gisbert Strotdrees: Tatort Dorf. Historical crimes from the country. Westf. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-7843-5324-1 , pp. 80-89.

Fiction about Klostermann

  • Joseph Weingärtner: Wildschütz Klostermann . In: Willibald Alexis (ed.): The new Pitaval . tape 4 , New Series, 1869 ( projekt-gutenberg.org [accessed June 25, 2020]).
  • Jodocus Donatus Hubertus Temme: Wildschütz Klostermann, a new Rinaldo . In: Criminal Library . No. 1 . F. Schöningh, Paderborn 1872.
  • Rudolf Gödde: Wildschütz Klostermann. Homeland novel from the Diemeltal . Verlag des Diemeltalboten, Niedermarsberg 1935 (reprint: Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-4262-3 ).
  • Thomas Ruf: Wildschütz Klostermann. A poacher's experience . 2nd, completely revised edition. Th. Thiele, Paderborn 1953 (first edition: 1938, Thomas Ruf is a pseudonym of Georg Servais).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Dieter Hibbeln: The Wildschütz Hermann Klostermann. The poacher Hermann Klostermann. Truth and legend? In: Die Warte e. V. (Ed.): The waiting room . Home magazine for the Paderborn and Höxter districts. No. 80 , 1993, ISSN  0939-8686 ( wildschuetz-klostermann.de [accessed on November 10, 2010]).
  2. ^ Gisbert Strotdrees: Tatort Dorf. Historical crimes from the country. Westf. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-7843-5324-1 , p. 88 .
personal data
SURNAME Klostermann, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klostermann, Friedrich Heinrich Hermann (full name); Klostermann, Wildschütz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Retzin
DATE OF DEATH 19th century or 20th century
Place of death Scherfede -Hardehausen