Mathias Ludwig Schroeder

Mathias Ludwig Schroeder (1950)

Mathias Ludwig Schroeder (born April 28, 1904 in Malstatt-Burbach near Saarbrücken , † May 5, 1950 in Hilden / Rhineland ) was a German craftsman and writer .

Life

Mathias Ludwig Schroeder came from a working class family . His parents were Ludwig Schroeder from the Eifel village Großlittgen and Barbara Jacobs from Kürenz near Trier. After attending elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a plumber at the Trier municipal gas and water works . In 1922 and 1923 he led an unsteady wandering life that led him across Germany. He then worked as an installer for the municipal gas, water and electrical utilities Solingen and from 1931 in the 1899 by the city forest in Hilden-Elf builtWaterworks that was transferred to the city of Solingen in 1929 . On March 14, 1931, he married Adele Mävers from Solingen- Höhscheid . The daughter Ute came from the marriage. Schroeder was literary active since the early 1930s. He wrote stories , often of a humorous character and set in the world of work, as well as books for young people . Schröder also published some works in the DGB's youth magazine “Upward” . He was friends with the writer Heinrich Lersch .

Schroeder took off in 1940, inter alia as Baupionier the Wehrmacht on World War II in part and fell into Soviet captivity , from which he was dismissed late 1945th He died in an electrical accident in his house in the hamlet of Kesselsweier in the Hildener Heide . The city of Hilden erected an honorary grave for him in the main cemetery, for which they also donated a memorial stone. The plaque on the memorial stone was created by the artist Karl Rydzewski (1916–2008) and shows a motif from Schroeder's master story "The Beichtrohr". Rydzewski, who came from Lyck in Masuria , studied sculpture with Hans Peter Feddersen at the Hilden building district .

Works

Honorary grave at the main cemetery in Hilden

Grave plaque "The confessional tube"

• All attention: men! , Langen Müller Verlag, Munich 1936.
• Peter, the soldier boy, Junge Generation Verlag, Berlin 1936.
• The laughing hammer , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1937.
• Laughing comradeship , Junge Generation Verlag, Berlin 1937.
• Lehrbuben, Lausbuben , Junge Generation Verlag, Berlin 1937.
• The one from the sun deck , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1937.
• Peter on a hamster ride , Junge Generation Verlag, Berlin 1938.
• Peter at the field post , Junge Generation Verlag, Berlin 1938.
• Men and Hearts , Staufen-Verlag, Cologne 1939.
• The confessional tube , Langen Müller Verlag, Munich 1941.
• On torn soles , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1942.
• Always something on the kerbholz , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1944.
• Der Zauberer , Verlag Der Quell, Münster 1947.
• Klees with the jug , Der Quell publishing house, Münster 1948.
• Poets and workers , Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1949.
• Benze uff piston , Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1950.
• Captains of the Landstrasse , Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1950.
• Men in the gas vortex , Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1950.
• The girl on the black horse , Hundt-Verlag, Hattingen 1951.

In upwards - youth magazine of the DGB

• The Unbreakable Bell , Vol. 1, No. 9, October 9, 1948, p. 11. Digitized University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• With grace and permission - a holy evening , vol. 2, no. 26/27, December 17, 1949, p. 4. Digitized University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• Revenge from Above , Vol. 3, No. 12, June 17, 1950, p. 11. Digitized University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• Good afternoon, Mr. Gotthard , Vol. 3, No. 19, September 23, 1950, p. 11. Digitized University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• The second journeyman's examination , Vol. 3, No. 22, November 4, 1950, pp. 9-10. Digitized University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• Der Angeber , Vol. 4, No. 9, May 5, 1951, pp. 10-11. Digitized University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

In Hildener Jahrbuch, Vol. 5, 1947–1952, Hilden 1953

• Beginning of Life , pp. 31–33.
• Zum Wolchow , pp. 34-38. (last, unfinished manuscript from May 2, 1950)

literature

• Waldemar von Grumbkow : Mathias Ludwig Schroeder on memory , In: Hildener Jahrbuch, Vol. 5, 1947–1952 , Verlag Fr. Peters, Hilden 1953, pp. 39–51.
• Max Beier: Mathias Ludwig Schroeder's books - A bibliography , In: Hildener Jahrbuch, Vol. 5, 1947–1952 , Verlag Fr. Peters, Hilden 1953, pp. 52–54.
• Heinrich Strangmeier , Elisabeth Kraut (eds.): Correspondence Mathias Ludwig Schroeder - Heinrich Lersch , In: Niederbergische Contributions , Vol. 41, Hilden 1978.

Web links

Commons : Mathias Ludwig Schroeder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Mathias Ludwig Schroeder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mathias Ludwig Schroeder on the website of Wohnweiler Elb eV, Hilden
• Biography Mathias Ludwig Schroeder at Archive for the History of Individual Travel (AGIR)
• Mathias Ludwig Schroeder in the Rhenish Poets Archive of the Heinrich Heine Institute , Düsseldorf