Joachim Eckmann

Joachim Hinrich Friedrich Eckmann (born February 26, 1850 in Langwedel ; † June 15, 1922 in Kiel ) was a German elementary school rector and editor.

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The preparation institute in Uetersen

Joachim Eckmann came from a family that lived in the Nortorf parish until the Reformation . His father Claus Christian Eckmann (born November 30, 1823 in Molfsee ; † May 3, 1893 in Langwedel) worked as a kater and painter. He was married to Anna Christina Magdalena, née Ehlers (born February 6, 1828 in Langwedel; † August 29, 1903 there). The family had little wealth.

Eckmann, who had ten younger siblings, experienced a difficult youth. He spent four years as a preparatory teacher in Holtsee and Segeberg , where he studied at the teachers' college from 1869 to 1872. He passed the first teaching qualification and then taught for seven years as a primary school teacher in Kiel, Burg auf Fehmarn , again in Kiel and in Oldesloe . During this time, he passed the second teaching exams, the teaching examination and the rectorate examination. From 1879 to 1890 he taught at the middle school in Uetersen . There he founded and headed the preparatory institute , which prepared for further training at a teachers' seminar.

From 1909 Eckmann worked as a main teacher, then as rector of an elementary school in Ellerbek , which was incorporated into Kiel a year later. Since the population increased constantly due to the growing shipyards there, but the financial means did not grow to the same extent due to the poorly paid parents, the Rector worked under very complicated conditions with a constant lack of teaching opportunities.

Eckmann founded a training school for apprentices and had a great influence on students, teachers and the residents of Ellebek due to his ability and consistent work. From 1911 the teacher suffered from physical weakness. For this reason, he took early retirement in 1914, during which he devoted himself to local research.

Eckmann was one of the first members of the "Association for the Care of Natural and Regional Studies in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg" and was a member of its board until the end of his life. At first he was involved as a treasurer. After Heinrich Lund had given up the editing of the association's magazine Die Heimat , Eckmann took on this function from 1901 to 1911. From 1916 to 1920 he edited the sheet again and then handed the task over to Gustav Friedrich Meyer . As an honorary member of the association, Eckmann wrote only a few of his own articles on local history.

Eckmann was married to Margarethe Dorothea Richter (* July 28, 1854 in Österdeichstrich ; † August 5, 1938 in Kiel). The couple had two daughters and a son who died as a company commander during World War I in 1915.

literature

• Nicolaus Detlefsen: Eckmann, Joachim . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, pp. 92-93