Lorenz Conrad Peters

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Lorenz Conrad Peters (Frisian Luurens-Kunrad Peeters ; nickname Lonje * 11. January 1885 in Oevenum ; † 30th July 1949 in Aarhus ) was North Frisian author , language carers, local historian and teacher . Peters is considered one of the most important poets in the North Frisian language , and he wrote his works in the Föhr dialect . His best-known work is the comedy Oome Peetje ütj Amerika (old spelling Omi Petji ütj Amerika , 'Uncle Peter from America') from 1923. In addition, he was a central figure in the Frisian movement between the world wars.

Life

Lorenz Conrad Peters was born on January 11th in the village of Oevenum on Föhr. He was the third of seven children of the couple Nahmen Peters and Julia Peters geb. Knudtsen. Julia Peters was a sister of the poet Knud Broder Knudsen. Because of his good school performance, Lorenz Conrad Peters was prepared by the pastor to attend a higher school. Until he was confirmed, he attended the village school in Oevenum. Then he switched to the secondary school in Flensburg. There he passed the Abitur examination in 1906.

He studied philology in Marburg , Munich and Berlin and from 1908 in Kiel . During his studies, Peters became a member of the AMV Albingia zu Kiel , a music-oriented student association in the Sondershäuser Association . He received his doctorate with a thesis entitled "Das Föhringische Haus". Phil. In 1912 he passed the examination for teaching at secondary schools in Kiel.

During the First World War, Peters initially served in the island guard on Sylt. He was later used as an officer on the Western Front in Lille (France). He received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. In 1917 he was wounded. During the voting period in 1919/20 and afterwards, he represented a basic German-national attitude and was a member of the board of the Schleswig-Holsteiner Bund. In 1919 he got a job as a high school teacher at the Lyceum in Husum. In 1923 his main work "Oome Peetje ütj Amerika" appeared in print after it had already been performed several times. From 1923 to 1928 he was chairman of the editorial committee of the "Yearbook of the North Frisian Association" .

After the seizure of power , Peters was expelled from the tribal advisory board of the North Frisian Association because he was a Freemason . He was the victim of hostility and vandalism. On April 30, 1933, Peters was temporarily taken into protective custody. At school, he was initially forbidden from taking history lessons in high school, and eventually he was forced into retirement.

In 1942 his first wife died. In 1943 he lost one of his two sons who was reported missing on the Eastern Front in Russia . On July 30, 1949, Peters died in a hospital in Aarhus as a result of severe lung disease.

Peters in the Frisian movement

Lorenz Conrad Peters represented a strict German national position in the German-Danish dispute after the First World War and the resulting split Frisian movement. He agitated violently against members of the Danish side in and after the voting time in Schleswig. For him, his Frisian nationality work was inextricably linked with German nationality work. Accordingly, he developed his activities within the German-minded North Frisian Association for local history and love of home . He was a staunch opponent of the Danish-minded Frisians of the Frisian-Schleswig Association , some of whose members described and despised as deserters and deserters in World War I. Peters also rejected the aim of the Danish Frisians to recognize the North Frisians as a minority at the minority congress in Geneva and was an advocate of the Bohmstedt guidelines passed in 1926, in which the large majority of North Frisians affirmed their membership of the German people.

At first he welcomed the takeover of power by the National Socialists, as he hoped for a strengthening of the national work for the North Frisians. Despite his German national sentiments, he did not become a party member of the National Socialists and was prevented from continuing his work for the Frisian and the Frisians among them, among other reprisals to be suffered. Peters processed these events in a few poems. The experiences of National Socialist rule and the loss of his son in the Russian campaign meant that after the war he did not continue his Frisian nationality work at the North Frisian Association, but instead turned to the Danish-oriented wing of the Frisian movement in the last years of his life had fought so hard before.

Fonts

  • North Friesland. Home book for the districts of Husum and Südtondern . Husum. (Reprogr. Neudr. Kiel 1975).
  • Between West and North Germany. Contributions to local studies of the North Frisian Uthlande and the neighboring Geestharden for school and home. Verlag Bollmann, Husum 1932. DNB 575359129

literature

  • Volkert. F. Faltings: In memoriam Lorenz Conrad Peters . Quedens, Amrum 1986, ISBN 3-924422-10-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at Nordfriisk Futuur. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The fascination of the fraternities. Lecture in the Ferring Foundation on the connection between Kommers and student connections - article in the SHZ from July 25, 2017, last accessed on July 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ Jakob Tholund: Lorenz Conrad Peters - his life and work . In: Volkert Faltings (Ed.): Lorenz Conrad Peters (11.1.1885 - 30.7.1949). Sin kameede Oome Peetje ütj Ameerika an en ütjwool faan sin got liitjin an staken üüb riimen. Amrum 1986, p. 149-162 .
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Lorenz Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author in the North Frisian language area and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Oevenum
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1949
Place of death Aarhus