Otto Buhbe

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Otto Buhbe (born April 16, 1903 in Hamburg , † July 27, 1993 in Schöppenstedt ) was a German farmer. For decades he was a volunteer local politician and synodal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig .

Life

Buhbe was the 7th child of a wine merchant on the Großneumarkt . When he lost his father at the age of six, Buhbe and his siblings spent all their holidays on their mother's farm in Alsterdorf . After graduating from high school, he did a four-year agricultural apprenticeship , especially in Schleswig-Holstein . He found it beneficial for his development that he worked with the servants on a farm in Laboe for two years .

Given the good reputation of its agricultural faculty , he enrolled at the Friedrichs University in Halle in autumn 1926 . On the recommendation of an uncle of the Munich Franks , he became active in the Corps Palaiomarchia . He heard jurisprudential and philosophical lectures and engaged in Hochschulring German Art , whose chairman he was on the 3rd and 4th semester. As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin for the winter semester 1928/29 , where he became a certified farmer in November 1929 . Since he saw no possibility of acquiring an estate , he began to study economics in the winter semester of 1929/30 . He gave up his second degree when the surprising opportunity arose to buy the run-down Kreuzhof (Schöppenstedt) .

After serving two months as a volunteer in the Wehrmacht in 1937 and 1938 , he was called up as a private to a replacement battalion in November 1939 . Since he had succeeded in rebuilding the Kreuzhof into a high-performance business, he was dismissed in September 1940 in the interests of the war food industry. Sick of tuberculosis in the spring of 1945 , he came to Sülzhayn in the Soviet occupation zone . Sick of the disease, he was allowed to leave for Bad Rehburg (in the British occupation zone ) in October 1945 . In March 1946 he was able to return to his family and the many refugees at the Kreuzhof. The company was confiscated until 1949.

In the spring of 1948 Buhbe was elected to the church council of the Schöppenstedt provost. Soon chairman, he was elected to the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig for a total of 18 years in 1952 and 1961 . As its (honorary) President, she sent him to the General Synod of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany for the first time in 1961 , of which he was President until 1973. Since 1948 a member of the CDU and councilor , Buhbe succeeded Schöppenstedt's elected mayor in autumn 1949. In 1952 and re-elected several times, he sat for 28 years (until 1975) in the municipal council . In 1973 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

Buhbe met the writer Hans Schwarz in Halle's Hochschulring . Admitted by Buhbe in the late 1930s, Schwarz lived with Buhbe for over three decades until his death. In 1950 Buhbe was one of the founders of the Friends of Till Eulenspiegel , which he headed for 27 years. In 1980 he became honorary chairman of the association that initiated the Till Eulenspiegel Museum in Schöppenstedt . He was a dedicated corps student throughout his life, but in the post-war period Buhbe rejected the “joint reconstitution” of his Corps Palaiomarchia with the Corps Masovia to form the Corps Palaiomarchia-Masovia in Kiel , but he was involved in the old men’s associations and always tried to talk to the boys. In 1960 he also received the Masurian Ribbon .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g G. Niewerth: Otto Buhbe . Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 90 (1993), pp. 127–130
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 113/511; 98/1268
  3. ↑ a b Schöppenstedt
  4. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006
personal data
SURNAME Boo, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer, synodal and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1993
Place of death Schöppenstedt