Horst Strohbach

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Horst Strohbach (born August 16, 1886 in Meinersdorf ; † November 2, 1978 in Grüna ) was a German homeland researcher.

Life

Even as a young teacher, Strohbach devoted himself to local history research. In 1932 he was blamed for the bloody conflict in Rußdorf , in which Rudolf Marek was killed. That is why he was dismissed from school after the Nazis came to power in March 1933.

In 1945 he was appointed head of the later Gerhart-Hauptmann-Schule in Limbach-Oberfrohna . After the founding of the SED as a forced unification of the SPD and KPD , he joined the party and became a member of the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . In 1955 he was elected district chairman of the Kulturbund. He was a member of the district council and council.

Since he had to earn his living with genealogical research from 1933 (whoever wanted to become something had to prove that he had no Jewish ancestors), he also acquired extensive knowledge of the history of the region in old files. This made him one of the best experts on the Mulde-Chemnitz area between Glauchau , Rochlitz and the district town of Karl-Marx-Stadt . Ten villages in the Chemnitz district owe their detailed local chronicles to Strohbach, with articles about National Socialist events taking up a large part of the chronicles.

The estate has been kept in the Chemnitz City Archives since 1981 .

Awards

Works

  • Bräunsdorfer Picture Chronicle , 1935
  • Chronicle of the district of Chutizi
  • Limbacher Land , Berlin 1962

literature

  • Rudolf Weber : The local researcher Horst Strohbach 80 years old , in: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge 11 (1966), no. 8, pp. 184-186.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Legacies in the Chemnitz City Archives ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chemnitz.de
personal data
SURNAME Strohbach, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Meinersdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd 1978
Place of death Grüna