Oskar Hellmann

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Oskar Hellmann (born September 29, 1869 in Ratibor - Ostrog , † June 22, 1944 in Glogau ) was a Silesian publisher , bookseller , author, family researcher and curator of the art monuments of Silesia.

Oskar Hellmann (1938)

Life

Hellmann was the ninth child of the estate and brickworks owner Carl Hellmann and his wife Josefine Ottilie Hellmann, nee. Stroka, who came from a Polish family in Racibórz. He was the cousin of Johannes Hellmann , the "father of the fire brigades in Silesia".

After attending grammar school in Ratibor and Breslau, Hellmann did an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Breslau and then worked there for some time in this profession. In 1898 he founded his own publishing house in Jauer , where he a. a. from 1901 to 1903 edited and published the literary monthly Janus .

In 1908 he moved with his publishing house to Glogau and gave a. a. In 1913 Julius Blaschke published the great city chronicle of the city of Glogau and the Glogauer Land , which was published in 1982 by the Glogauer Heimatbund e. V. has been reissued as a reprint.

In 1931, after decades of research, he published his family book Die Hellmann. The picture of a German family . In his research he had succeeded in tracing his ancestors back to Cologne in the 15th century. Oskar Hellmann lived and worked in Glogau until his death in 1944. His extensive family archive went up in flames soon after his death when the city of Glogau was almost completely destroyed at the end of the Second World War.

Works

  • (Ed.), Janus. Studies and reviews for friends of literature , Jauer, 1901ff
  • Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz. A picture of a poet from pre-March Austria , Leipzig, 1910
  • (Ed.), Napoleon in the mirror of poetry , Glogau, 1914
  • This is Old Austria's victory step. A book of Habsburg wars and victories , 2nd edition, Glogau, 1916
  • (Ed.), Hans Bloch. Sketches and studies by a Silesian artist , Glogau, Leipzig, 1916
  • The coats of arms in Glogau Cathedral , Glogau, 1927
  • Defense and fatherland. An anniversary of the glory of the “Iltis” , supplement to the Deutsche Zeitung of June 21, 1930
  • A detailed account of the life of Gottlieb Stams , In: Der Wanderer im Riesengebirge , Heft 9, Breslau, 1930
  • Our church. From the life of a Silesian village pastor , Breslau, 1930
  • How a boy from Langhelwigsdorf became pastor of Pombsen Kr.Jauer in the Seven Years' War , In: Der Wanderer im Riesengebirge , September 1930
  • The Hellmann. The picture of a German family , Glogau, 1931
  • A family of booksellers and scholars , In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , Volume 98, p. 104, Leipzig, 1931
  • The monument to one of Goethe's ancestors in Glogau Cathedral , In: Our Silesian Homeland , Issue 8, Glogau, June 1932
  • The stone figures from the Glogau Odertor , In: Our Silesian Homeland , Edition 8, Glogau, 1932
  • Glogau. A guide through home , Glogau, 1933
  • Fifty years of Robert Kahl, Glogau , Glogau, 1936
  • The Kahl clan from Schlabitz (Guhrau district) , Glogau, 1936
  • The Governor of Glogau, Graf von Nimptsch , In: Niederschlesischer Anzeiger , 1937 edition
  • Ancestry and family tree Herfarth , Görlitz 1937 (with Heinrich Herfarth)
  • The archdeacons of the Collegiate Foundation of Our Lady in Glogau , Glogau, 1938
  • Three citizens of Glogau. Johann Samuel, Gustav and Robert Bail , o. O., o. J.
  • Family history connections on both sides of the Sudetes , n.d., n.d.
Hellmann publishing house, Signet

Published by Hellmann Verlag

  • Address and information book of the city of Jauer in Silesia , Verlag Oskar Hellmann, Jauer 1900ff
  • Jauerscher Anzeiger, weekly , Verlag Oskar Hellmann, around 1900
  • Otto Koischwitz: Reader on local history. With district map u. City map , Glogau, 1900
  • Hugo Michael: The Homeric and today's Ithaca, program of the Royal High School in Jauer , 1902
  • Otto Koischwitz: Jauer, a guide through the homeland and its history , Jauer, 1902
  • Gustav Schönaich: The old principality capital Jauer. Pictures and studies on Jauer's town history , Jauer, 1903
  • Gustav Schöneich: The old Jauer city ​​fortifications , Jauer, 1903
  • Max Neumann: Memorial sheet to sunny Italy. A teacher's trip , o. O., 1903
  • Max Kreyher: From life's eternal becoming. Small pictures , Jauer, 1903
  • Friedrich Weidling: Three German psychic poems , Jauer, 1903
  • G. Haschke: Hiking map of the Jauer district , Jauer, around 1903
  • Arthur Luther: Goethe. Six lectures by the author , Jauer and Leipzig, 1905
  • Gotthard Heuber: The Protestant Peace Church in Jauer, called to the Holy Spirit, commemorative publication to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the church , Jauer, 1906
  • Karl August Gerhardi: The essence of genius , Jauer, 1906
  • Max Kretzer: The Farmer of Millions , Jauer, 1906 (?)
  • Marie Klerlein: Early Companions. Stories , Jauer, 1906
  • Hans Zuchold: At the gates of the blessed gardens. Poems , o.O., 1906
  • Hermann Kunert: Memorandum on the 250-year jubilee celebration of the Evangelical Peace Church in Jauer , Jauer, 1907
  • Franz Diettrich-Kalkhoff: History of musical notation with 3 illustrations, 18 tables and numerous music examples in the text , Jauer, 1907
  • Peter Hamecher: memory. A book of verses , Jauer, 1907
  • Max Kretzer: sons of their fathers , Jauer, Leipzig, Berlin, after 1907
  • Adalbert Hoffmann: Joh. Christ. Günther's school days and love spring , Jauer, 1908
  • Otto Suchland: Contrast. Stanzas. Songs. Lines. Fragments , Jauer, 1908
  • Eduard Diederich: The decree of Bishop Burchard of Worms. Contributions to the history of its sources. 1st part: Inaugural dissertation to obtain the theol. Doctorate of the Rev. Catholic theological faculty of the Königl. Presented to the University of Breslau and published with its permission by Eduard Diederich, Pastor in Pombsen, Kr.Jauer , Jauer, 1908
  • Gregor Constantin Wittig: Johann Christian Günther. A contribution to his character pictures with further corrections and additions to his life story , Jauer, 1909
  • Richard Wenz: Heinrich Mittler , Glogau a. Leipzig, 1909
  • Max Kretzer: Courage to Sin , Glogau a. Leipzig, 1909
  • Kurt Walter Goldschmidt: On the Critique of Modernity. Studies and Confessions , Leipzig, 1909
  • Fred Brzoski: Industrial Silesia , the land of a future , Glogau, 1911
  • Julius Blaschke, History of the City of Glogau and the Glogau Country , Glogau, 1913
  • Karl August Gerhardi: Brain and War , Glogau a. Leipzig, 1915
  • Otto Warnatsch (Ed.): Andreas Gryphius. Selection from his poems adapted to our language for the triple centenary of his birth , Glogau, 1916
  • Johannes Hönig: Moving out and returning home. War poems , Glogau, 1917
  • Bernhard Patzak: The grammar school church in Glogau and the Martinskirche in Seitsch , Glogau, 1920
  • Bernhard Patzak: The Jesuit Church in Glogau and the Church in Seitsch , Glogau, 1922
  • K. Kastner: History of the pastors from the Glogau Nikolaikirche , Glogau, 1925
  • Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Aerzteverein , Jauer, undated
  • Pastor Roth: The teacher and the weak and endangered among his students , n.d., n.d.
  • Eugen Hellmann: Erich. A song from the mountains of Silesia , Jauer, undated

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . 1999ff in De Gruyter, S. 1992.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kosch : The Catholic Germany. Biographical-bibliographical lexicon . Augsburg, 1933ff, vol. 1, col. 1495.
  3. ^ Oskar Hellmann: Ancestry and family tree Herfarth. In: Archives for kin research and all related areas. CA Starke, Vol. 15 (1938), p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Hellmann, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostrog
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1944
Place of death Glogau