Julius Heinrich Schreyer

Julius Heinrich Schreyer (born September 23, 1815 in Wildbach ; † November 16, 1888 ) was a German miner and private school teacher, whose curriculum vitae is a reflection of the social conditions in the Saxon Ore Mountains of the 19th century.

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He was born in the house of his grandparents, who lived in Wildbach, as the son of a mountain farmer on the pit of God's fate and wealthy resident of Haide near Raschau , and grew up in Wildbach, where, as a child, he married his mother's younger sister and the wealthy carter Christian Friedrich in 1819 Pechstein from Breitenbrunn experienced. His mother died just six years later.

At the age of five he took lessons from his grandfather, the schoolmaster Krauss in Wildbach. Although he wanted to become a teacher, he had to learn to be a miner. He therefore went to the Schneeberg Mining Authority , but was turned away and continued to grow up with grandfather in Wildbach. It was not until 1834 that he succeeded in becoming a miner on the Fürstenberg near Haide with the support of the Annaberg Mining Authority. He brought hope to the Kießel mine .

Hut house, pantry and room house by Daniel Fundgrube

After the death of his grandfather, he was brought back to Wildbach at the request of the local pastor August Groß, where Schreyer became vicar of the local school in January 1835 and at the same time took over the sexton service in the village church. In 1839, due to insufficient pay, he returned to his second job as a miner, this time at the Daniel pit in Neustädtel, which was equipped with a horse peg .

He married the daughter of the miner Carl Friedrich Hennig, who had founded a private school in Schneeberg. When his father-in-law became seriously ill in 1844, Schreyer took over the school. Hennig died a year later. Schreyer ran this school until New Year's Eve 1875, when the private schools were repealed by the new Saxon primary school law. As a headmaster, he achieved importance above all because he devoted himself individually to individual students who could not follow the curriculum in elementary schools and were therefore sent to his private school.

He was only able to work as a miner for a short time because he injured his leg while chopping off rocks. For this he took over the administration of the mining support fund in Schneeberg and paid out funds to those in need.

What he was denied himself, a proper education, he gave his own children. Two of his sons became teachers, two other sons were pastors and the fifth son became a businessman.

literature

• Franz Werner: The Schreyerschule and the life of the miner and private school teacher Julius Heinrich Schreyer . In: Schneeberger Heimatbüchlein , 12, 1973, pp. 12-17.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Werner: The Schreyerschule and the life of the miner and private school teacher Julius Heinrich Schreyer . In: Schneeberger Heimatbüchlein , 12, 1973, p. 15