Jakob Kuratli

Jakob Kuratli (born June 1, 1899 in Azmoos , † July 28, 1981 , reformed , resident in Nesslau ) was a Swiss dialect writer and local historian .

Life

Jakob Kuratli came to Azmoos on June 1, 1899 as the son of the carpenter Nikolaus Kuratli and Margareth née Staub. He first attended primary school in Azmoos, then secondary school in Fontnas, and from 1915 to 1919 he completed the teacher training college in Rorschach . As a result, he worked as a primary school teacher in Weite until 1948, and then worked in Azmoos in his own capacity until his retirement in 1967. The National Socialist ideology related parties as well as its pro-German attitude led in 1940 to an action for espionage suspicion and service violation against him, which was discontinued.

Kuratli wrote poems and narrative texts in Wartau dialect, which in places express his Germanophile - racist ideas. He also wrote works on various local historical topics.

He was married to Emma, ​​the daughter of the hand ticker and church clerk Konrad Lüthi. He died on July 28, 1981 in Azmoos.

Works

• Schiba schluh at the Bättler-Fasnat, 1936
• From the old gender book [by] Wartau: Contributions to family research, 1937
• History of the Church of Wartau-Gretschins: Written on behalf of the Church Council, 1950
• From home in Wartau, 1955
• Di gfreyta Walser at Gunza un im Pilfriis, 1958
• Wartouer Sproch, 1963
• Records of the land and people around the Gonzen, 1995

literature

• Wolfgang Göldi: Kuratli, Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• State Archives St. Gallen: Estate
• Oswald Frey: "Jakob Kuratli", In: Werdenberger Jahrbuch 8, 1995, p. 171 f
• Werner Hagmann: Crisis and war years in Werdenberg: economic hardship and political change in a district of the St. Gallen Rhine Valley between 1930 and 1945, 2001, pp. 268–271