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Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher (born February 21, 1877 in Oberdischingen ; † June 8, 1960 in Saulgau ) was a teacher and the author of a standard work on the etymology of German family names.

Life

Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher attended school for eight years. From 1891 to 1895 he was trained as an elementary school teacher at the teachers' college in Gmünd and from 1895 to 1899 he was an assistant teacher in Wehingen , Munderkingen and Mengen , and from 1900 a teacher in Hundersingen . In 1898 he wrote his first major treatise The Study of the Young Teacher , a little later The real study of mankind is man . From 1909 to 1933 Brechenmacher headed the magazine for pedagogy and in 1921 founded the Swabian Schulmann . In 1905 he was hired to work on the twelve-volume introduction to German literature for the chapters on Lessing and Romanticism .

In 1907 Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher was appointed to Stuttgart as main teacher , in 1912 to the Rottweil teacher training college for the subject “German”, where he a. a. Kurt Georg Kiesinger taught. In 1928 he became rector of the Saulgau teacher training college .

He also wrote thirteen accounts from the First World War for the German youth books , which were published by the Ludwig Auer bookstore in Donauwörth .

In 1934 the Nazi government forced him to retire on the grounds that he was an opponent of the NSDAP .

Brechenmacher moved to Stuttgart and worked mainly in the field of name research and in particular family names. In 1944, during a bomb attack on Stuttgart, his entire library (almost 12,000 volumes) and above all his almost completed manuscript on German family names burned. With his wife Theresia, nee Strub, and his youngest daughter Isolde, he moved to Saulgau to live with his daughter Brünhilde, married to Joseph Drescher, and began his research all over again. The result of his years of research is the Etymological Dictionary of German Family Names , which was almost complete by his death in 1960. The final editing was done by Germanist and local researcher Stefan Ott.

In 1945 Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher was appointed chairman of the denazification commission for the Saulgau district by the French military government . On July 1, 1946, at the age of almost 70, he was appointed head of the teachers' secondary school (LOS) in Saulgau, and on December 6, 1946, Brechenmacher was able to welcome representatives of the French military government as well as 110 students at the opening ceremony.

At the beginning of 1947, the French governor, Coup de Fréjac, proposed a "Center d 'Information" in Saulgau, which was supposed to promote reconciliation between the former enemies. Josef Karlmann Brechenbacher was appointed president of the working committee, which was responsible for the program design, and representative of the new cultural institution with the symbolic name Museum - Die Fähre . On September 12, 1947, Brechenmacher opened the ferry with the quote from Goethe: “A new day will beckon you to new shores”. The second exhibition at the end of 1947 with works by the artist group Nabis , especially by Paul Sérusier , Pierre Bonnard , Jan Verkade and Édouard Vuillard , was the first Nabis exhibition in post-war Germany to attract national attention. While similar cultural centers set up by the French occupying power disappeared in other district towns in southwest Germany after the occupiers withdrew, the ferry survived to this day as a respected institution in the cultural scene of Upper Swabia.

Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher died on June 8, 1960 in Saulgau (today: Bad Saulgau).

A collection of documents on the life and work of Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher is in the Bad Saulgau town archive.

Appreciations

For his linguistic research, the University of Tübingen awarded Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher in 1947 the dignity of an honorary senator as "the important linguist, the excellent connoisseur of dialect research, the master of name and clan studies, the great educator of the youth, the humble citizen rooted in his homeland" .

With the beginning of his retirement in 1950 he was awarded honorary citizenship by the city of Saulgau, and the teachers' association Württemberg-Hohenzollern elected the "Praeceptor Suebiae" as honorary chairman. On the occasion of his 80th birthday in February 1957, the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Gebhard Müller awarded him the title of "Professor".

From 1956 to 2018 the Saulgau elementary and secondary school with Werkrealschule was called "Brechenmacher-Schule" (today: "Walter Knoll Schulverbund Realschule + Werkrealschule Bad Saulgau").

The primary and technical secondary school in Brechenmacher's birthplace Oberdischingen has been named after him since 2015. The Brechenmacherstraße in Weingarten (Württemberg) is also named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Guide through youth literature , 1906
  • Swabian linguistics, 1925 (Reprint 1987, Hund Saulgau, published by the district of Sigmaringen)
  • German language studies based on the native language , 1927
  • German name book , 1928
  • German phonetic stories based on the native language. A manual for German teachers , 1934
  • Teufel, Hölle, Himmel in German family names , 1936
  • German family names. Deriving dictionary of German family names. With numerous documentary evidence, over 60,000 references to today's occurrence and over 8,000 coat of arms evidence. 5 volumes, Görlitz 1936 (= German Kinship Library. Volumes 5–9); New edition in 1957 under the title: Etymological Dictionary of German Family Names
  • German sentence names , 1937
  • The medical profession in the mirror of German clan names , 1937
  • Raufbold and Eisenfresser in German family names , 1937
  • Springinsfeld, Schnapphahn in German family names , 1937
  • The gourmet. A dining and drinking mirror for the German clan names , 1937
  • The family name Meier (Maier, Mair, Mayer, Mayr, Meyer, Majer, Mejer, Major, Mayerle) . Verlag Deutsche Familien-Chroniken, Stuttgart 1940, DNB 579248178 .
  • Etymological dictionary of German family names. (= 2nd, completely revised edition of German family names. ) 2 volumes. Starke, Limburg an der Lahn (1957) 1960–1964; Reprint 1985, ISBN 3-7980-0355-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German youth books . Numbers 52 to 66. Ludwig Auer bookstore, Donauwörth.
  2. ^ Stefan Ott: Foreword . In: Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher: Etymological dictionary of German family names . CA Starke Verlag, Limburg / Lahn 1961, ISBN 3-7980-0355-6 .
  3. ↑ 40 years of the municipal gallery “Die Fähre” Saulgau, 1947–1987 . In: Saulgauer Hefte . No. 8/9 . Saulgau 1987.
  4. ↑ Benedikt Welser (Ed.): Life pictures of significant Upper Swabians . Dr. K. Buck Verlag, Ehingen 1959.
personal data
SURNAME Breaking maker, Josef Karlmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German name researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberdischingen
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1960
Place of death Saulgau