Justus Pabst
Carl Justus Pabst (born March 6, 1875 in Widminnen , Lötzen district , † August 30, 1958 in Lünen - Brambauer ) was a German homeland researcher and photographer . For over 40 years he was a correspondent at the Achenbach colliery in Lünen-Brambauer and worked out extensive records and manuscripts about the noble houses and farms in the immediate vicinity. In addition, from 1900 to 1958 he documented countless landscapes, townscapes, aristocratic houses, farms, including the events of the war and the effects of the Second World War in the Lünen area, and made portraits of citizens of Lüner.
Life
Justus Pabst grew up in a wealthy family in Bromberg . As the son of the royal district physicist Carl Pabst and grandson of the royal music director, he was able to attend the royal high school in Bromberg and graduated from high school there in 1894. After he met Helene Pabst, born Scheuermann (born March 12, 1875 in Berlin ; † March 12, 1940 in Lünen) married on February 24, 1900, his son Walter Pabst was born on January 16, 1902 in Insterburg .
From 1903 to 1945 Pabst worked as a correspondent at the Minister Achenbach colliery in Lünen-Brambauer and found his new home in this district of Lüner. In particular, he was responsible for the French correspondence at the mine. During his work at the Minister Achenbach colliery, he published numerous articles for the company newspaper and illustrated them with self-made photographs.
Pabst also worked part-time with photography on a technical and artistic level . He dealt with local history topics, wrote manuscripts and completed his family chronicle . In addition, he wrote genealogies about neighboring noble houses and wrote extensive chronicles about castles and palaces.
His photo series about the destruction of bombs during the Second World War in the Lünen area are of great importance, as are his photographic documentation of the farms in the Brambauer district.
During the Second World War, Pabst gave a large part of his archive to the city of Lünen for safekeeping. This stored it together with the municipal archives for security in the Wenne house ( Eslohe , Sauerland ), where both archives suffered losses for the most part due to looting and vandalism by Polish slave laborers in 1945. According to Pabst's records, around 3,300 photos of Lünen were destroyed.
Due to his local history activities, the Institute for Local History at the Pedagogical Academy Dortmund (since 1965 University of Dortmund ) appointed him in 1948 as its corresponding member. During his lifetime he left a large part of his work to the Lünen City Archives , especially photographs of the cityscape of Lüner.
He died after a long illness in his home in Lünen-Brambauer. Due to disagreements between him and the city of Lünen (presumably because of the war damage to his archive), Pabst changed his will and bequeathed most of his estate to the Dortmund city archive . It was not until the 1980s that the city of Dortmund handed over the photo archive and numerous Pabst manuscripts to the city of Lünen; this inventory is currently (2016) being indexed in the Lünen city archive.
A street in the east of the Brambauer district has been named after him since 1986
Works
Articles published in the works newspaper of the Zeche Minister Achenbach
| Date, number, page | Title of the essay |
|---|---|
| 1934, No. 5, page 5 | The old Brechte village church |
| 1934, No. 7, page 7 | House Wilbring |
| 1934, No. 13, page 5 | Buddenburg Castle |
| 1934, No. 14, page 3 | Buddenburg Castle (continued) |
| 1934, no.17, page 5 | The Counts of Buddenburg |
| 1934, no.25, page 7 | Kappenberg Church |
| 1935, No. 1, page 3 | Kappenberg Church (continued) |
| 1935, No. 2, page 4 | Kappenberg Monastery |
| 1935, No. 6, page 7 | Kappenberg Castle |
| 1935, no.20, page 7 | Münster , the capital of Westphalia |
| 1935, No. 22, page 6 | The major radio broadcaster Langenberg |
| 1936, No. 12, page 9 | The last windmill in Dortmund |
| 1936, No. 14, page 11 | The historic yew tree at Wilbring Castle |
| 1936, no.15, page 19 | Strange trees in Buddenburg Park |
| 1937, No. 1, page 1 | Schwansbell Castle and Palace 1 |
| 1937, No. 2, page 3 | Schwansbell Castle and Palace 2 |
| 1937, No. 3, page 3 | Schwansbell Castle and Palace 3 |
| 1938, No. 4, page 1 | The new traffic regulations |
| 1938, No. 19, page 5 | Trip to the East Prussian homeland |
| 1939, no.15, page 9 | For German sea sailing |
| 1939, No. 16, pages 6-7 | Citizens' and rifle clubs |
| 1939, no.17, page 17 | Elmenhorst , the 247 year old rifle chain from Elmenhorst |
Independent works and manuscripts
Handwritten writings illustrated with photos and drawings, not published
| Dating | title |
|---|---|
| 1935 | Vischering Castle in Lüdinghausen |
| 1936 | Sandfort Castle Part 1 |
| 1936 | Sandfort Castle part 2 |
| 1941 | Labor camps and foreign workers from the Minister Achenbach colliery |
| 1941 | Bladenhorst Castle |
| 1942 | Supplementary volume Haus Sandfort, ancestral line Graf von Wedel |
| 1942 | Supplementary volume Freiherr von Rheinbaben |
| 1953/1954 | The Brambauer farms |
| 1954/1955 | Foreword for the planned Golden Book of the Minister Achenbach colliery |
| 1955 | Colliery Minister Achenbach Part 1 |
| 1955 | Brambauer |
| 1956 | Sandfort Castle part 3 |
| 1956 | Colliery Minister Achenbach Part 2 |
equipment
Pabst wrote some of his manuscripts by hand or with a typewriter. All works are illustrated with photos that he made independently with his plate camera in the negative process with glass as a carrier ( dry gelatin process ) in the formats 9/12 cm, 13/18 cm and 18/24 cm.
Lore
The estate of the local history researcher Justus Pabst from the Lünen city archive documents the Lüner area primarily in photographs. He also uses independent manuscripts with illustrations to represent the noble houses and farms in the Lünen area.
Web links
- Street names - kunst-und-kultur-luenen.de (PDF file)
- Justus-Pabst-Strasse in 44536 Lünen Brambauer (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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- " Justus Pabst is an important chronicler ", Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , Lünen March 5, 1955
- “ Justus Pabst buried ”, Westfälische Rundschau , Lünen, September 3, 1958
- " Collection provides information about the history of the city ", Ruhr Nachrichten , Lünen November 26, 1980
- " Important personalities of the city of Lünen - Carl Justus Pabst, Heimatforscher ", Ruhr Nachrichten , September 1982
- “ Homeland explored with the camera ”, Ruhr Nachrichten , Lünen June 15, 1985
- " Street names tell stories - tug-of-war over the estate of Justus Pabst ", Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , Lünen March 27, 1986
- Holdings: Carl Justus Pabst estate, Lünen City Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pope, Justus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pabst, Carl Justus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German homeland researcher and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Widminnen , district of Lötzen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1958 |
| Place of death | Lünen - Brambauer |