Johannes Aisch

Johannes Aisch

Wilhelm August Johannes Aisch (born March 19, 1871 in Müllrose , Brandenburg; † May 6, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Protestant pastor . In his free time he devoted himself to beekeeping ; In this area he published numerous articles and books as a specialist writer and was also editor of the Märkische Bienen-Zeitung .

Life

Krügersdorfer Church

In March 1871 Brandenburg Müllrose born son of the royal Prussian forestry cash rend distinctive August Friedrich Ewald Aisch and his wife Sophie Marie Auguste, born Linder, attended elementary school in Müllrose and high school in Frankfurt (Oder) . He studied theology at the Universities of Greifswald and Berlin . After receiving ordination on October 19, 1902 , he took up his first pastor's position in Krügersdorf near Beeskow in December of that year . On December 2, 1902, he married Frida Mühl , daughter of the royal government and forestry councilor Adolf Mühl (1834–1911) from Frankfurt / Oder. The marriage had five children.

Kletzker Church

In Krügersdorf, Aisch wrote a two-part chronicle of the place, which is available in handwritten form. He received the loan letters from the Krügersdorf landowner widow to work through and reproduced them in the first part of the chronicle as a copy. Without this work there would be no knowledge of the letters from 1534, 1578, 1599, 1609 and 1620. Some song texts, some of which were “ sung a lot after the war in 1870/71 ” , are also included, as well as a copy by a Schneeberger Document from 1778. The second part, which at the time contained current entries from 1907, Aisch concluded with the words: “I will hardly experience the next visitation in Krügersdorf, because I am presented on October 20th, 1912 as pastor of Kletzke, Diocese of Perleberg. "

Ketschendorfer Church, today Martin Luther Church Fürstenwalde

His activity in Kletzke (in what is now the parish of Plattenburg ) was only canceled for a very short time, as in 1915 he took over the new pastorate at the church in Ketschendorf / Spree near Fürstenwalde, which was created on April 1st of that year . Aisch worked at this third and last parish until his illness-related retirement on April 1, 1933. In Fürstenwalde he was a member of the Masonic lodge Zum rauen Stein .

Aisch spent his twilight years in the Herzbad Nauheim and from 1938 in Frankfurt am Main , where he died on May 6, 1939 at the age of 68.

Works

Aisch was known among beekeepers at the time as Pastor Aisch and enjoyed a good reputation. Together with Rector Detlef Breiholz , he brought about a closer connection between the beekeeping association and the German Agricultural Society and earned great merits as the long-standing managing director of the hiking assembly of German-Austrian-Hungarian beekeepers. The obituary in the Sächsische Bienenzeitung closes with the words: “Pastor Aisch was as hardworking as the bee in the field of beekeeping, especially the beekeeping organization. Thanks be to him and he should not be forgotten! "

His publications include:

• Bee book for beginners, Frankfurt (Oder), Verlag Trowitzsch K Sohn, 1913
• Hiking booklet. A handout for small beekeepers, Verlag Theodor Fisher, 1922
• German beekeeping: its current status and measures to promote it: Three reports, Volume 318, from the work of the German Agricultural Society, authors Johannes Aisch (pastor), Bernhard Dahnke, F. Osenberg, publisher Ludwig Armbruster , Verlag Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft , 1922
• Practical guide for beekeepers, Volume 36–37, Verlag E. Freyhoff, 1930
• The funny bee fever, Deutsche Landwerbung GmbH, Berlin, 1935

His wife Frida Aisch used honey as an ingredient in many dishes. She began in 1920 by submitting the first recipes to the Märkische Bienen-Zeitung and other magazines, later she published the book I cook with honey . At the 1929 Green Week she received a bronze medal; She received a valuable damask cloth for her cookery and baking book from the hiking assembly.

References

1. ↑ Short biography and information on the work of Johannes Aisch at Literaturport
2. ↑ ^{a b} Otto Fischer: Evangelical Pastor's Book for the Mark Brandenburg since the Reformation . Ed .: Brandenburg Provincial Synodal Association. Second volume, first part. E. S. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1941, p. 5 .
3. ↑ German National Entomological Library (Hrsg.): Rundschau in the area of ​​the entomology with special consideration of the literature . 1911, p. 135 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ^ ^{A b} Mary G. Phillips: Ketschendorf-Spree: A German Housewife Who is a Firm Believer in Honey as a Food and for Use in Cooking . In: AI Root Co. (Ed.): Gleanings in Bee Culture . tape 62 , 1934, pp. 215–218 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ^ Information from the Krügersdorf parish archives
6. ↑ 120 years of Samaritan institutions 1892–2012. (PDF; 2.7 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Unterwegs dokumentiert 2/2012. P. 11 , archived from the original on December 22, 2016 ; accessed on December 22, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Entry in the lodge's directory of members (PDF file)
8. ↑ ^{a b} Pastor i. R. Johannes Aisch † . In: Landesfachgruppe Beekeeper Saxony (Ed.): Sächsische Bienenzeitung . tape 54 . Verlag Leipziger Bienenzeitung, 1939, p. 194 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

literature

• Märkische Bienenzeitung: official organ of the beekeeping committee of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Brandenburg, No. 1–23, 1911–1933
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, 1943
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, List of the Dead, 1952
• Peter Walther: Muses and Graces in the Mark. 750 years of literature in Brandenburg. A historical dictionary of writers. S. 170, Lukas Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-931836-69-X

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Aisch in the catalog of the German National Library