Otto Franzmeier

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Otto Franzmeier (born November 2, 1885 in Detmold ; † April 23, 1980 there ) was a German teacher and writer .

Life

Franzmeier was born on November 2, 1885 as the son of a professional soldier in Detmold. He attended the elementary school and then the boys' bourgeois school . His first job after going to school was at the land registry . He gave up this job after three years and trained at the Detmold teachers' seminar . Franzmeier first worked as a teacher in Bad Salzuflen , later in Detmold at the Leopoldinum , at the boys' bourgeois school and two daughter boarding schools, where he met his future partner Aenne Spellmeier. During the First World War Otto Franzmeier fought at the front and was at the Battle of Verdunseriously injured. After the end of the war he took up his teaching profession again and continued to do so until May 1945.

In addition to practicing his dream job, Franzmeier's love was poetry . Even before the outbreak of World War I, he published some of his works under the pseudonym "Otto Freimar" in the series of German poets . After the war, other works were published under his real name, initially poems, later also stories.

In 1963 and 1964 he told 50 episodes of his youth in the Lippische Rundschau . Between 1968 and 1972 he wrote articles on the history of Lippe for the series Heimatland Lippe of the Lippische Heimatbund ; his last contribution dealt with the Herberhausen estate .

Otto Franzmeier died on April 23, 1980 at the age of 94 in Detmold.

Honor and controversy

Stone of contention

On March 24, 2004, in a newly developed area on the site of the former air base, a street adjacent to Moritz-Rülf- Strasse was named after Otto Franzmeier. Only later did it become known that Franzmeier was, among other things, a keynote speaker for the NSDAP during the Nazi era and that his National Socialist background was the reason for his dismissal from school service by the British military government . Efforts were therefore made from May 2015 to rename the street. The renaming to Casinogarten was decided on August 25, 2015.

Works (selection)

  • On lonely ways. Poems. Habicht Verlag, Bonn 1921
  • Of sunshine and silence. Poems. Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung, Detmold 1921
  • A fountain runs from the depths of the soul. New poems. Osning-Verlag, Detmold 1925
  • Solos Deo gloria . A wreath around people and songs. Christian publishing house, Stuttgart 1950
  • Beloved Lipperland. Poems, memories, stories. Topp + Möller, Detmold 1967

literature

  • Ernst Fleischhack: "Of sunshine and silence". Otto Franzmeier, Lippe's last romantic, commemorates his 100th birthday . In: Heimatland Lippe . Detmold 1985, p. 388-392 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rüdiger Henke: The streets of the Detmold city center . 2nd Edition. Detmold 2013, p. 41 .
  2. ↑ Sven Koch: Heimat poet was a Nazi and should no longer be honored with the street. Lippische Landeszeitung, May 21, 2015, accessed on May 22, 2015 .
  3. ^ Renaming of Otto-Franzmeier-Straße. Retrieved July 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Franzmeier, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freimar, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1980
Place of death Detmold