Oskar Benecke

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Oskar Benecke (born November 19, 1874 in Göttlin ; † between 1957 and 1960) was a German school rector , local historian, local chronicle, ornithologist , conservationist, archive and monument curator in the Wittenberg district .

Life

Oskar Benecke came from Göttlin in the Jerichow II district of the Prussian province of Saxony . In 1896 he passed the first and in 1898 the second teacher examination at the Protestant teacher training college (today: Markgraf-Albrecht-Gymnasium) in Osterburg (Altmark) . At the teacher training college in the provincial capital Magdeburg , he received his training as a secondary school teacher, where he successfully passed the rector's examination in 1913. On January 1, 1914, he succeeded the school theorist Otto Karstädt as principal school principal in Bad Schmiedeberg . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . On April 1, 1936, after 22 years of service as rector, he retired. Even after that, he maintained close contact with his former students and the teaching staff.

Already during his first years in Bad Schmiedeberg, Benecke devoted himself intensively to bird watching in his free time. His results were incorporated into Otto Schnurres work The Birds of the German Cultural Landscape in 1921 .

Otto Benecke volunteered as a member of the district office for the preservation of natural monuments for the district of Wittenberg . It was subordinate to the State Agency for the Preservation of Natural Monuments in Prussia , which was converted into the Reich Agency for Nature Conservation in 1936 . In the field of nature conservation, he specialized in breeding birds such as the gray shrike, about which he also published.

In a 1935 publication he referred to the fallow as the "Strauss of the Düben Heath ". In the same year he wrote that the Triel no longer occurs in Bad Schmiedeberg; However, breeding pairs were observed again 50 years later.

In 1937 he published over 70 breeding tunnels of sand martins in a sand pit on Hindenburgstraße in Bad Schmiedeberg, which he wanted to place as a monument under nature protection, especially since similar breeding colonies in Kleinkorgau , Pretzsch (Elbe) , Patzschwig , Splau and in Reinharzer Straße in Bad Schmiedeberg had been abandoned by the swallows during his observation.

Benecke also worked as a local culture warden in Bad Schmiedeberg. As a local researcher and local writer, he took over the post of state archivist for the Wittenberg district, Bad Schmiedeberg and Pretzsch (Elbe) care district at the suggestion of the Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg . In this district he was responsible for looking after the state and private archives, working closely with the archive director Walter Möllenberg . It is thanks to Oskar Benecke that several manor archives were saved from destruction, including the remains of the Trebitz manor archive , which he recorded, and the Radis manor archive of the Barons of Bodenhausen , which is now in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt . Even before the outbreak of the Second World War, he called on the press to exercise caution when collecting and recycling waste paper in order not to irretrievably destroy historical documents that might be worth archiving.

He also kept the local history of Bad Schmiedeberg and dealt intensively with the older city history, such as the age of the Thirty Years' War. He published several articles about local history in the local press.

After an explosive bomb fell on the ceramic factory in Bad Schmiedeberg on January 27, 1944, Otto Benecke began securing the local city archive, which was completed in June 1944.

In 1946, the anti-fascist committee classified him as politically harmless, so that he could continue his voluntary work as a state archive keepers, and he with the director of the archive information center in Naumburg (Saale) and in Freyburg (Unstrut) , Lotte boy , worked. For reasons of age, he resigned this position on July 5, 1948 at his own request and recommended the new teacher Heinz Stieler as his successor, who then took over this position. Lotte Knabe replied to Oskar Beneke on July 15, 1948: “I am extremely sorry that you are now resigning from your position as archivist for the Schmiedeberg care district, which you have held since the establishment of the abortion, for reasons of age. On behalf of the abst. I would like to express my most binding thanks for all the work done [...] "

One of his last writings on the Schmiedeberg mud bath is still one of the few contemporary publications on Bad Schmiedeberg from the 1950s.

Benecke was also active in the field of monument preservation and secured several finds that are still preserved today.

Fonts (selection)

  • A rare breeding bird (gray shrike) in Schmiedeberg's surroundings , in: Ornithologische Monatsschrift 1921
  • Der Brachläufer, the bouquet of the Dübener Heide , in: Die Dübener Heide , ed. from the Dübener Heide eV association, Bad Schmiedeberg 3 (1935), pp. 126–128
  • From Schmiedeberg's garrison life 1860–1866 , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of May 7, 1938
  • From Schmiedeberg's garrison life 1866–1878 , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of June 21, 1938
  • Be careful when collecting waste paper , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of September 29, 1938
  • Introduction of the Reformation in Schmiedeberg , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of October 29, 1938
  • The earlier Saxon emblems on our town hall , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of February 4, 1939
  • A strange house inscription , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area from September 16, 1939
  • Schmiedeberg's education system in the age of the Reformation , in: Generalanzeiger for Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of November 16, 1939
  • A commitment to Schmiedeberg's loyalty from 1547 , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of April 12, 1940
  • When they said. From a letter from the Schmiedeberger mayor to the Elector v. J. 1643 , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of June 5, 1940
  • Awarded a rifle flag on May 23, 1736 , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of October 16, 1940
  • Gustav Adolf's body in the Schmiedeberg church , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of November 6, 1940
  • From the Schmiedeberger Tuchmachern , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of January 11, 1941
  • Bad Schmiedeberg, the mud bath for the working people , in: Wittenberger Rundblick , Wittenberg 3 (1957), pp. 30–33

Unpublished Writings

Some of his unpublished reports as a nature conservationist have been collected by the former specialist group "Ornithology and Bird Protection Wittenberg" of the Kulturbund der DDR . His annual reports as archivist are stored in the archives maintenance file in the Wittenberg district 1935–1953 in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive in Magdeburg. There you will also find his handwritten personal questionnaire with biographical information and passport photo.

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literature

  • Uwe Zuppke: The bird world of the Wittenberg region , 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Schnurre: The birds of the German cultural landscape , Marburg 1921, p. 31.
  2. ↑ The fallower, the bouquet of the Dübener Heide, in: Die Dübener Heide, Bad Schmiedeberg 3 (1935), pp. 126–128
  3. ↑ Uwe Zuppke: The avifauna of Wittenberg , 2007, p 103
  4. ↑ Uwe Zuppke: The avifauna of Wittenberg , 2007, p 152
  5. ^ Gutsarchiv Radis  in the German Digital Library
  6. ↑ Be careful when collecting waste paper , in: Generalanzeiger für Kemberg, Bad Schmiedeberg and the surrounding area of September 29, 1938
  7. ^ Gustav Adolf's funeral procession at the publishing house for the Eilenburg homeland
  8. ↑ LHASA, MD, C 96 II, No. 54, Bl. 333v
  9. ^ Annual journal for Central German Prehistory, 52 (1968), p. 349
  10. ↑ received a. a. in: Gustav Adolfs funeral procession, publishing house for the home Eilenburg
  11. ↑ Uwe Zuppke: The avifauna of Wittenberg , 2007, p 211
  12. ^ Archive maintenance in the Wittenberg district  in the German Digital Library
personal data
SURNAME Benecke, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rector, local history researcher and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Gottlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1937