Otto Heineke

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Otto Heineke (born October 24, 1893 in Immensen ; † July 6, 1980 ibid) was a German art historian, teacher and conservationist .

Live and act

After attending school, Heineke did an apprenticeship and was then a soldier in the First World War . He was badly wounded and eventually returned from a Russian captivity. During these years he designed furniture and sculptures.

He studied in Leipzig and Greifswald and acquired knowledge of literature and art history. During this time he dealt with the state and value of nature and questions of the protection of the habitat threatened by industrialization . Heineke taught at the German School in Athens . He published manuscripts on art history, local history and nature conservation . His writings were shaped by the Wandervogel period and a humanistic - naturalistic ideal of life. He also wrote short stories on historical subjects.

Heineke later campaigned for nature and landscape protection in eastern Lower Saxony. He pointed to the rapidly expanding on its assessment of exploitation of industrial society back to nature. He saw the habitat and the basis of life for fauna and flora, but also for humans, endangered. Heineke was committed to the expansion of landscape protection and the identification of protected areas and natural monuments . In 1951 he was one of the first to take on the honorary position of nature conservation officer, which he held for many years.

As part of his decades-long commitment to local history, Heineke amassed a considerable collection of local history, with local finds from the soil, Lower Saxony costumes and everyday objects. He also had a remarkable collection of icons .

He received various public awards for his work, including the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Works

  • Irminheid. A struggle for the Lower Saxon peasantry . WA Adam, Hanover 1923

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Kayser: The district of Burgdorf . In: The districts in Lower Saxony , Volume 19, Dorn Verlag, Bremen 1961, p. 285
personal data
SURNAME Heineke, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, conservationist, art historian, teacher and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Huge
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1980
Place of death Huge