Otto Thielemann (local researcher)

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Otto Thielemann (born November 10, 1893 in Eltze ; † December 4, 1990 in Goslar ) was a German teacher and local researcher .

Life

The son of a farmer grew up on the Thielemann farm in Eltze in what was then the Peine district . He was trained as a primary school teacher from 1908 to 1911 in the preparatory facility in Gifhorn and from 1911 to 1914 at the teachers' college in Northeim . He then taught in Schönhagen, Harzungen , Urbach and Duingen . From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. In December 1918 he received a school post in Groß Mahner , which he held until 1922. There he married the teacher's daughter Elisabeth Hohnschopp in 1923, with whom he moved to Goslar. Thielemann passed the secondary school teacher examination in 1927. Until his retirement he was a secondary school teacher in Goslar.

Thielemann's historical interest was aroused at the Northeim seminar under K. Dageförde and A. Tecklenburg. He took part in courses in prehistory and early history and soil monuments, which the director of the Hannover Provincial Museum , Karl Hermann Jacob-Friesen , offered from 1930. In the 1930s he was involved in the excavations of the royal palace in Werla . He excavated evidence of the Neolithic Rössen culture on the site of the Palatinate . In Othfresen he researched an early medieval row graveyard. He set up the prehistoric department in the Goslar Museum . From 1941 to 1968, Thielemann was a volunteer district home administrator and archive administrator for the Goslar district . His circle of friends and acquaintances included the Lower Saxony homeland researchers Wilhelm Barner , Otto Fahlbusch , Georg Köstermann , Curt Sauermilch and Franz Zobel .

Thielemann died very old in December 1990 in Goslar and was buried in the forest cemetery there.

Honors

In 1943, Thielemann was awarded the Rudorff plaque created by Gauleiter Hartmann Lauterbacher in the same year . In 1959 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit. He received the municipal plaque of merit of the city of Goslar in 1975. Thielemann was an honorary member of the Goslar History Association.

Fonts (selection)

Thielemann wrote over 400 local history publications on prehistory and prehistory, on folklore, on dialect and onenology as well as on nature and monument protection. He published in particular in daily newspapers, local supplements , the Braunschweigische Heimat , the Goslarer Bergkalender and the publications of the Harzverein . His main work is the prehistory published in 1977 at the North Harz .

  • Land on the northern Harz . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1941, 32, pp. 67–69.
  • A magnificent Rössen vase from Burgdorf, Goslar district . In: Die Kunde 1941, volume 9/10.
  • Stone Age settlers in the north Harz . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1943, 34, pp. 30–32.
  • 650 years of Vienenburg . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1955, 41, pp. 78–82.
  • New dagger find on "Alte Straße" . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1957, 43, pp. 1–2.
  • Prehistory in the North Harz. Goslar, 1977.
  • The field names of Jerstedt and Hahndorf. Goslar, 1987.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar von Reeken : Science, space and folklore . In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , Volume 68, 1996, p. 77.
personal data
SURNAME Thielemann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltze
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1990
Place of death Goslar