Karl Krampe

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Heinrich Carl Krampe (born January 18, 1858 in Baak , today Hattingen an der Ruhr , † October 21, 1934 in Essen ) was a German miner , Winkelier and dialect poet .

Life

Karl Krampe was the eldest son of a rifle manufacturer and later became a miner. After the Saarn Royal Prussian rifle factory closed in 1861, the family moved to Dahlhausen to the oldest farm on the Sattelgut (Sadelhof Daelhuson), which was later also called Krampenhof. His father switched to the job of a carter there.

First, Karl Krampe started out as a horse driver at the Peaceful Neighbor colliery in Linden . He later moved to the Zeche General (Schacht Berger) in Dahlhausen, again as a horse driver, but this time in the mine. On Zeche Hasenwinkel Karl Krampe came not too long ago as a teaching Hauer "in front of the coal."

Karl Krampe was active in the miners' movement together with his brother Hermann. Both are among the first social democrats in Dahlhausen, Hermann became mayor of Dahlhausen in 1921. Due to his involvement in the miners' strike, Karl Krampe was no longer allowed to work as a miner. When his fourth daughter Anna was born on July 26, 1891, Karl Krampe gave the profession of peddler. In 1892 he moved to Eppendorf near Wattenscheid , as is evident from the official observation of the Social Democrats in the Linden-Dahlhausen office . He lived there for some time in house no. 182 1/2. It can no longer be traced exactly today, but between 1904 and 1914 the family moved to Essen. There, Karl Krampe had a miner entered in the local address directory as a profession. However, it cannot be proven whether Karl Krampe actually worked as a miner again for a few years. From 1920 he worked as a merchant and grocer.

Karl Krampe married on May 6, 1884 in Linden Maria Lütteke (* March 27, 1862 in Velmede, † November 13, 1896 in Eppendorf) and on October 12, 1899 in Niederwenigern Mathilde Hausmann (* November 4, 1859 in Niederwenigern, † 24 May 1945 in Linden). Karl Krampe died on October 21, 1934 at the age of 76 in the Huyssens Foundation hospital in Essen.

Literary work

Karl Krampe recorded his memories in writing in the 1920s. The Ruhr Valley is considered to be one of the "cradles of Ruhr mining". Numerous mining remains are a reminder of this. Compared to these preserved technical monuments, the image of the people who once lived and worked here often remains shadowy. Karl Krampe's stories and memories give these people a shape again.

His manuscripts consisted of 456 sheets, which his family kept for a long time. In it he describes the rural life in the Ruhr valley as well as the work underground and tells of the people who shaped the landscape and were shaped by it. But he also describes the changes he has witnessed: the construction of the railroad, the disappearance of everyday farming culture, the departure of the miners. In this way, he paints a picture of a region that already underwent structural change more than a hundred years ago, which profoundly changed people's everyday lives.

Today his writings are on permanent loan in the Westphalian industrial museum Zeche Nachtigall in Bommern , where a separate department is dedicated to him and the region he so aptly described, which was opened in 2007.

Some of the memories and stories were published in 2006 by Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch in Karl Krampe: Stories from the Ruhr Valley , including texts in Low German .

literature

  • Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch (Ed.): Karl Krampe. Story from the Ruhr valley. (= Westfälisches Industriemuseum, Sources and Studies , Volume 12.) Klartext, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-554-5 .
  • Press release of the Ruhr University Bochum No. 124 from April 10, 2006
  • Phillip Sommerlad: From Hessebub to Bochum boy. Essen 1990, p. 52.
  • Holger Wosnitza: Chronicle of the Krampe family. Heisingen, Baak and Dahlhausen.
  • City archive Hattingen, files deposit 4/64 Krampe
  • Horst Detering: 400 years of mining in Heisingen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ registry office Hattingen-country marriage register no. 44/1884
  2. ↑ Registry Office Essen I, death register No. 1244/1934
  3. ↑ Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch (ed.), Karl Krampe stories from the Ruhr valley . Eat. Klartext, 2006. ISBN 978-3898615549
personal data
SURNAME Krampe, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krampe, Heinrich Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miner, Winkelier and dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Baak , today Hattingen an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1934
Place of death eat