Max Grohmann

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Max Grohmann's handwriting on a postcard from 1906

Ferdinand Max Grohmann (born December 25, 1861 in Geyersdorf , † October 15, 1925 in Schönheide ) was a German school director and non-fiction author, who was primarily responsible for the book series he founded, The Upper Ore Mountains and Its Cities. Local history images for home and school became known.

Life

Grohmann worked as an assistant teacher from 1882 and from 1885 as a teacher at the high school in the Erzgebirge mountain town of Annaberg . He was the author of the commemorative publication for the 400th anniversary of the city of Annaberg on the occasion of the 400th anniversary in 1896. In 1898 he moved to Schönheide, where he became director of the local school there.

Grohmann wrote the article The local materials in the history curriculum of the Annaberg citizens' schools. in: Berthold Hartmann (Ed.): Twelfth report on the citizens' schools and the advanced training school in Annaberg in the Erzgebirge, school year 1891-1892. H. Grasers Verlag, Annaberg 1893, pp. 1-29. His series Das Obererzgebirge and his cities appeared from 1896 in the Graser'schen Buchhandlung, Richard Liesche Verlag, Annaberg . Volumes on Annaberg, Aue , Buchholz , Ehrenfriedersdorf , Geyer , Johanngeorgenstadt , Marienberg , Olbernhau , Scheibenberg , Schlettau , Wolkenstein , Zöblitz and Zwönitz are known . When editing these volumes, he worked closely with local homeland researchers and other school directors such as Friedrich Hermann Löscher and HE Zeil, who usually wrote the part of the book with a local reference.

In the work On to Schönheide with Bismarckhain and Prinz-Georg-Turm on the Kuhberge. Advice in pictures and words for locals, for summer visitors, hikers and winter sports fans, for school, club and social excursions. Published by M. Grohmann on behalf of the Erzgebirgs-Zweigverein Schönheide , printed by Meisenbach, Riffahrt und Co., Leipzig undated (around 1915), Grohmann, who was chairman of the Erzgebirgszweigverein Schönheide before the First World War , was able to contact Ernst Flaths Book about the history of Schönheide from 1909. He also states this in the text of the story (p. 17 and p. 32 "According to the local chronicle of Flath").

During the First World War he was chairman of the “Greetings from home” committee. From Christmas 1915 to November 1918, he published a magazine Heimatgrüße intended for the soldiers from Schönheide . Dedicated to our dear field gray and sea blue by their home communities Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide. Monthly news from home. This magazine reported on events such as collections for soldiers at the front, church and school events, and life in Schönheide during the war, printed poems and published lists of war victims. Grohmann regularly wrote articles in this sheet, which usually consisted of eight pages and printed a photo with motifs from Schönheide on the title page.

Grohmannsbank above Schönheide

Even after his retirement he lived as headmaster i. R. in Schönheide.

Grohmann's name is still known in Schönheide in the 21st century, because he donated a bench on Fichtigweg below the Knock mountain and there is still a bench in the same place with “Grohmans bench” on its back. From this bench you can see the school, of which Grohmann was director from the opening of this building in 1898.

Works (selection)

  • The Upper Ore Mountains and its capital Annaberg in legend and history. Local history reader for school and home , 303 pages, Annaberg: Graser, 1892
  • Festschrift for the 400th anniversary celebration of the city of Annaberg. 1496 - 1896 , 108 pages, Annaberg: Schreiber, 1896

Web links

Commons : Max Grohmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Schönheide rectory on January 24, 2017
  2. ↑ Fred Oberhauser, Axel Kahrs: Literary Guide Germany. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 43, ISBN 978-3-458-17415-8 .
  3. ↑ Annual Pedagogical Report , Volume 45, 1893, p. 284
  4. ^ Arthur Kolbe: Handbook of school statistics for the Kingdom of Saxony . New episode. Twentieth edition. As of May 15, 1906. Rammingsche Buchdruckerei und Verlagshandlung, Dresden 1906, p. 921 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Ernst Flath: Local history and history of Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide , Schönheide o. J. (1909), Reprint 1992, p. 261 digitized in the State and University Library Dresden
  6. ^ Committee for "Heimatgrüße" (Ed.): Heimatgrüße. Dedicated to our dear field gray and sea blue by their home communities Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide . Monthly news from the home digitized in the Berlin State Library
  7. ↑ Address book for the district of the administrative authority Schwarzenberg 1926, p. 824 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Grohmann, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grohmann, Ferdinand Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German school director and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Geyersdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1925
Place of death Schönheide