Johannes Kleinheins
Johannes Kleinheins (born February 27, 1879 in Eppingen ; † April 1, 1938 in Karlsruhe ) was Baden's ministerial chief accountant and local poet, who was particularly known for his patriotic poems and those about his hometown Eppingen.
Life
He was the son of the locksmith Johann Georg Kleinheins and the mayor's daughter Katharina Christina geb. Raußmüller , attended elementary school and high school in Eppingen and began a middle administrative career in 1894 at the Grand Ducal District Office in Eppingen . In 1897 he moved to the Baden Ministry of the Interior in Karlsruhe . After voluntarily participating in the war in the First World War , he worked at the Baden Ministry of Labor, later in the district office and in the Karlsruhe Police Headquarters, and most recently as a ministerial chief accountant at the Ministry of the Interior.
His poems were mostly of a patriotic nature or had events and people from his hometown Eppingen as their content. They first appeared in the Eppinger Zeitung before the first volume of poetry appeared in 1913 with the anthology Vaterländische Zeitbilder 1812–1813 . During his volunteer time in the First World War, the volume of poems by Johannes Kleinheins, a volunteer at the Baden Red Cross, was published in 1915. in the field , after the war, further volumes of poetry followed. His patriotic poems brought Kleinhein's recognition to the highest positions, including Paul von Hindenburg , the Baden Grand Duke Friedrich II and the Bavarian Crown Prince Ruprecht. The Kyffhäuserbund awarded Kleinheins the Federal Cross of Honor, 1st class.
His hometown Eppingen renamed Waldstrasse to Johannes-Kleinheins-Strasse during Kleinheins' lifetime in the 1930s . After 1945, the Waldstraße was given its old name again, but in 1954 a new parallel street was renamed Johannes-Kleinheins-Straße . The poet is buried in the Eppingen cemetery.
Works
- Patriotic time pictures 1812–1813 , 1913
- God with us! , 1914
- Poems by Johannes Kleinheins, a volunteer at the Baden Red Cross, currently in the field , 1915
- Poems of Home, Love and Death , 1923
- Zeitbilder 1870/71 , 1925
literature
- Fritz Luz : Eppinger local poet - Johannes Kleinheins . In: Around the Ottilienberg - Contributions to the history of the city of Eppingen and the surrounding area . Volume 3. Heimatfreunde Eppingen, Eppingen 1985, pp. 407-412
- Johannes Kleinheins: The Eppinger Heimatlied . In: Around the Ottilienberg - Contributions to the history of the city of Eppingen and the surrounding area . Volume 1. Heimatfreunde Eppingen, Eppingen 1979, p. 19
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Kleinheins in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleinheins, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baden ministerial chief accountant and local poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eppingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1938 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |