Karl Kneebusch

Karl Kneebusch (born April 3, 1849 in Neukloster ; † December 17, 1902 in Dortmund ) was a German teacher and author of traveling literature about the Sauerland . His “ Sauerlandführer ”, written in 1884 and continued by Hermann Großjohann and Hugo Kracht from 1907, was last published under the sub-title “ Guide through the Sauerland, Siegerland, Wittgensteiner Land, Bergische and Oberbergische Land, Waldeck and the Lower Ruhr Area ” until 1974 in a total of 34 editions and has been printed more than 215,000 times.

Life

Born in Neukloster in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1849 , he worked as a doctor of history and geography at various schools in Germany and abroad. In 1880 he accepted a position at the Dortmund trade school, which was later converted into an upper secondary school. He was soon responsible for a number of other advanced training schools in Westphalia and was awarded the title of professor on December 17, 1897 .

His hikes led him to the Sauerland. In 1884 he wrote the first tourist guide about the low mountain range. A second edition followed after just one year, the third in the year the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV) was founded in 1891 , with which we immediately started working together. The newly founded SGV local departments in the Sauerland collected material for the book, which in return became the official association hiking book. From the fourth edition in 1893, the book was renamed " (Guide through the) Sauerland, Siegerland, Wittgensteiner Land and Waldeck " as a result of the expansion to include surrounding regions .

In his place of residence in Dortmund, he founded a SGV local department, the size of which soon encompassed a tenth of the members of the entire association, and, based on his local knowledge, was entrusted with the formation of the SGV trail commission, which was to create a network of marked hiking trails in the Sauerland. After his sudden death from a stroke , a Kneebusch memorial was inaugurated in Bad Laasphe on September 9, 1906, to which, in the meantime, the (Hugo) Kracht memorial stone was added to the Kneebusch memorial stone.

Kneebusch was buried in Dortmund's east cemetery. His grave stele is now a listed building.

Honors

Kneebusch memorial stone in Bad Laasphe

literature

Walter Hostert : History of the Sauerland Mountain Association , Sauerland Mountain Association, Hagen / Arnsberg, 1966

Web links

Literature by and about Karl Kneebusch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Hartnack: Wittgenstein in the world culture , here: No. 78: Karl Kneebusch. In: Wittgenstein. Pages of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein, year 44, 1956, vol. 20, H. 1/2, p. 41.

personal data
SURNAME	Kneebusch, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German teacher and author of traveling literature
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	New monastery
DATE OF DEATH	December 17, 1902
Place of death	Dortmund

[1] Wilhelm Hartnack: Wittgenstein in the world culture , here: No. 78: Karl Kneebusch. In: Wittgenstein. Pages of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein, year 44, 1956, vol. 20, H. 1/2, p. 41.