Otto Wobbe

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Otto Wobbe (* 10. April 1868 in Greifswald ; † 9. May 1945 ibid ) was a German local historian and writer .

Life

Otto Wobbe was born in the then Hotel Preußischer Hof at Baderstraße 3, the second of seven children of the hotelier and wine merchant Carsten Wobbe. In 1892 he was one of the five founding members of the Hilda Cooperative Rowing Club . From 1912 he ran a wine shop and restaurant in Fischstrasse 11. In 1923 he had to give up his business, sold the house and went to Reinfeld near Lübeck to devote himself to writing. When he lost his remaining fortune due to inflation , he returned to Greifswald.

He worked in his hometown Greifswald in the museum association, as a local editor and as managing director of the German National People's Party (DNVP). Between 1919 and 1921 he published his autobiography From a Modest Life in three volumes. From 1924 he was responsible for the weekly supplement Heimatleiw un Muddersprak of the Greifswalder Zeitung . In 1928 he received an honorary gift from the Prussian Ministry of Culture for his work . From 1938 he received an honorary salary of 1200 Reichsmarks annually from the city of Greifswald for life.

After the surrender of the Wehrmacht , he committed suicide on May 9, 1945 in his apartment at Wiesenstrasse 67.

His written estate is in the Greifswald City Archives .

Works (selection)

  • From a humble life. 3 volumes. Greifswald 1919–1921.
  • Bells and bells. Abel, Greifswald 1933.
  • Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the Greifswald Citizens' Rifle Company, 1634–1934. Greifswald 1934.

literature

  • Fritz Raeck: Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pomeranian Central Association, Hamburg 1969, p. 363.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Eckhard Oberdörfer: Otto Wobbe - a Greifswald original. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . July 3, 2015, accessed May 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Eckhard Oberdörfer: Writer, rower and local researcher Otto Wobbe was born 150 years ago. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . April 9, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Frank Bösch : The conservative milieu. Wallstein Verlag, 2002, p. 9, ISBN 978-3892445012 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Frank Bösch : The conservative milieu. Wallstein Verlag, 2002, p. 163, ISBN 978-3892445012 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Wobbe, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1945
Place of death Greifswald