Ludwig Bald

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Ludwig Bald (born January 12, 1902 in Erndtebrück ; † April 22, 1945 near Röspe ) was a German educator and historian who, with his basic research, gave the decisive impetus for intensifying and researching the historical geography of the Siegerland .

Live and act

Ludwig Bald was born on January 12, 1902 as the son of the office retiree and bank director Karl Bald (1871–1937) and his wife Wilhelmine. Flenner was born in Erndtebrück. He attended elementary school in Erndtebrück from 1908 to 1914 and then went to Selekta for four years . In 1919 he joined the preparation institute in Hilchenbach and completed the state teacher training college there until 1922. After completing his first teacher examination, he initially had no prospect of government employment. Soon he initially volunteered at a bank and then decided to study at the Philipps University in Marburg . In addition to his studies, he supplemented his seminar training by taking the Latinum at the Realgymnasium in Marburg. He completed a few semesters of his studies at the Albertus University in Königsberg . He returned to Marburg in 1930 and passed his second state examination in history in 1932. During these two years in Marburg, he completed his basic research. On August 1, 1932, he got his first job as a primary school teacher in Rogallen , Ortelsburg district . On March 1, 1937, Ludwig Bald was transferred to the town school in Ortelsburg, where a short time later he also taught part-time at the local army technical school. With his dissertation The Principality of Nassau-Siegen - Territorial History of the Siegerland , he received his doctorate in philosophy on August 4, 1939. The work presented by Bald was published in the same year by the historian Edmund E. Stengel in the series of writings of the Institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau . Ludwig Bald's work is of outstanding importance, as it was the first time that it represented a coherent territorial political development in the Siegerland.

The outbreak of World War II interrupted his promising career. Ludwig Bald became a soldier in an infantry regiment on August 26, 1939 and took part in the campaigns in Poland and France. After being promoted to sergeant major, he began his training as an army officer career, which he went through to become chief paymaster of the reserve. Towards the end of the war, after the collapse of the Ruhr basin , he reached the Röspe area, where he was killed by American soldiers on April 22, 1945. The 43 year old Dr. Ludwig Bald was buried in the cemetery in Erndtebrück with great sympathy from the population. His book was digitized by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in 2019 .

family

Ludwig Bald married Christa Szielinski in Rogallen in 1934; the marriage produced a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • The Principality of Nassau-Siegen, territorial history of the Siegerland , 15th part of the writings of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of Hesse and Nassau, editor Edmund E. Stengel, NG Elwert'sche Buchhandlung, Marburg 1939
  • The settlement of victorious countries in Prussian-Lithuania in the first half of the 18th century . Siegerland. Sheets of the Siegerländer Heimatverein eV, Volume 15, Siegen 1933, pp. 17–26.

literature

  • Hermann Böttger: Review of the territorial history of the Siegerland, in: Siegerland, sheets of the Siegerländer Heimatverein, Volume 21, Siegen 1939, pp. 73-75.
  • Gerhard Scholl: Ludwig Bald (1902–1945) and his "Territorialgeschichte des Siegerlandes." , Siegerland, sheets of the Siegerländer Heimatverein eV, Volume 46, Siegen 1969, pp. 95–96.
  • Paul Friedrich: About people who shouldn't be forgotten in Erndtebrück . In: Erndtebrück - a home book of the uppermost Edertal, Volume 2, publisher: Werner Wied on behalf of the Erndtebrück hunting association, Erndtebrück 1977, pp. 559-560.
  • Günther Wrede in: Westfälische Forschungen, Vol. 4 (1941), pp. 74-75 (review).
  • Karl Hermann May in: Nassauische Annalen, yearbook of the association for Nassau antiquity and historical research, vol. 61, Wiesbaden 1950, pp. 226–228 (review).
  • Dieter Bald: Dr. Ludwig Bald - Fragments of a Short Life. In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV, Bad Berleburg 2020, pp. 13-25.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Scholl: Ludwig Bald (1902-1945) and his "Territorialgeschichte des Siegerlandes. “, Siegerland, sheets of the Siegerländer Heimatverein eV, Volume 46, Siegen 1969, p. 95.
  2. ^ Ludwig Bald: Das Fürstentum Nassau-Siegen, Territorialgeschichte des Siegerlandes , 15th piece of the writings of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of Hesse and Nassau, editor Edmund E. Stengel, NG Elwert'sche Buchhandlung, Marburg 1939, foreword, p. XI.
  3. ↑ Paul Friedrich: About people who should not be forgotten in Erndtebrück . In: Erndtebrück - a home book of the upper Edertal, volume 2, publisher: Werner Wied on behalf of the Erndtebrück hunting association, Erndtebrück 1977, pp. 559-560.
  4. ↑ Philipps University of Marburg an der Lahn, Philos. Faculty, doctoral file of the cand. Ludwig Bald, Erndtebrück, Marburg University Archives, inventory 305 m 1, No. 92.
  5. ^ Hermann Böttger: Review of the "Territorialgeschichte des Siegerlandes" . In: Siegerland, sheets of the Siegerländer Heimatverein, Volume 21, Siegen 1939, pp. 73-75.
  6. ^ Wilhelm Völkel: Wittgenstein in the Second World War. In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV, Jg. 64, Vol. 40, H 1, Laasphe 1976, p. 39.
  7. ^ Adolf Müller: War and misery in the Siegerland. The inferno on the home front in the 1940s . Vorländer Verlag, Siegen 1981, pp. 227–228.
  8. ↑ Dieter Bald: Dr. Ludwig Bald - Fragments of a Short Life. In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV, Bad Berleburg 2020, p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Soon, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Erndtebrück
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1945
Place of death at Röspe