Lothar Mosler (local history researcher)

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Mosler's longest place of work, the Uetersen town hall

Lothar Mosler (born January or February 1930 in Königsberg , East Prussia , † February 22, 2002 in Uetersen ) was a German author , local researcher , trade unionist and local politician ( SPD ).

Life

Mosler was a skilled carpenter and fled after the Second World War to Halstenbek , where he lived until the 1957th Then he moved to Uetersen. There he was a council member for eleven years and from 1986 to 1989 mayor and later city council. He was feared by his political opponents for his pun and his gnarled manner and was one of the best speakers at the Uetersen council assembly in recent decades. Mosler also held the office of deputy district president and the board of directors of the Uetersener Eisenbahn .

In 1959 Mosler founded the Uetersen shooting club "because the guild (Uetersener Schützengilde from 1545) didn't want us refugees" and was instrumental in setting up the Samland Museum , as well as being an honorary judge at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Administrative Court for eight years . As an author, Mosler published several books and wrote articles on local history for almost 40 years in the Uetersener Nachrichten . He also published treatises on cultural and local history in the yearbook for the Pinneberg district for 22 years.

In 1975 Mosler founded the Historical Uetersen Association and built up the Uetersen Local History Museum , which opened in 1975 and was its director and honorary chairman for many years.

For his more than 50 years of voluntary work and life's work, Mosler received the badge of honor of the State of Schleswig-Holstein in 1988 and in 1994 he was awarded the Freiherr vom Stein Medal . On November 28, 2001, he, meanwhile suffering from heart disease, was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit after a one year delay at his longest place of work in the Uetersen town hall . He died in February 2002 a few weeks after his 72nd birthday; he left behind his wife and two children.

Works (selection)

  • Dear old Uetersen. (Heydorns Verlag, Uetersen 1980)
  • Shooting between the North and Baltic Seas: 125 years of the North German Rifle Federation in Schleswig-Holstein; a documentation. (1985)
  • Uetersen focus: history and stories. (Heydorn Verlag, Uetersen 1985)
  • Uetersen Air Base, Marseille-Kaserne: A documentation of local history. (Heydorn Verlag, Uetersen 1987)
  • Düneck Castle: A short local history of Moorrege and its surroundings. (Heydorn Verlag, Uetersen 1989)
  • By rail through Uetersen: 125 years of Uetersener Eisenbahn-AG. (Heydorn Verlag, Uetersen 1996)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uetersener Nachrichten of November 17, 2001: Lothar Mosler is awarded the Federal Medal of Merit
  2. ↑ Pinneberger Zeitung of February 27, 2002, p. 1: Mourning for Lothar Mosler
personal data
SURNAME Mosler, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, local history researcher, trade unionist and local politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH January 1930 or February 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2002
Place of death Uetersen