Otto Bach (pedagogue)

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Otto Bach (born February 19, 1924 in Engers , Neuwied ; † August 10, 2010 ) was a German homeland researcher and educator . From 1963 until his death he lived and worked in Heiligenloh ( Twistringen , Lower Saxony ).

Life

Otto Bach grew up in Engers. After attending secondary school in Neuwied, he received his school-leaving certificate in 1943 . He was a soldier in World War II , then an English prisoner of war (until 1947). He then worked as an employee at the justice administration in Hanover and could not begin his studies until 1951. After completing his teaching degree at the University of Education (PH) Celle in 1953, his first teaching position was in Beber ( Bad Münder , Krs. Springe). The next station was the one-class elementary school in Duddenhausen ( Bücken ) in 1957 . From 1963 to 1986 Bach worked as a teacher at the elementary school in Heiligenloh and from 1970 as the head of the elementary school there .

In 1978 he founded - together with the secondary school teacher Friedrich Kratzsch - the city ​​archive in Twistringen , which both managed together on a voluntary basis until Bach's death in 2010 . From 1986 onwards, Bach became increasingly active as a local researcher and wrote numerous books and brochures on the regional history of the Twistringer region.

Works

  • together with Friedrich Kratzsch: Twistringen in old views. Zaltbommel (NL) 1979
  • Twistringer mill history. Harpstedt 1984
  • together with Friedrich Kratzsch u. a .: Twistringen - A local lore. Twistringen 1986
  • School in the village. Contributions to the history of schools in the Heiligenloh area. Syke 1987
  • Farm directory. In: Friedrich Kratzsch: Old rights and rural conditions in the parish of Twistringen. Harpstedt 1989
  • Borwede - a village and its people. Borwede 1993
  • Old maps of the Hoya - Diepholz region in state collections (catalog for evidence of 1712 map titles). Syke 1988
  • Local history in the mirror of the map. Diepholz 1999, ISBN 3-00-004376-4
  • (Ed. City of Twistringen :) 750 years of Twistringen. (Anniversary chronicle), Twistringen 2000
  • Ellinghausen. Contributions to the history of a village from eight centuries. Ellinghausen 2003
  • (Red., Articles) In: Twistringen ... for you. Quarterly magazine of the city of Twistringen with numerous articles on local history (12/1979 to 12/2003).

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personal data
SURNAME Bach, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher and educator
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Engers , Neuwied
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2010
Place of death Heiligenloh