Peter Drey

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Memorial plaque on the Peter Drey Bridge

Peter Drey (born May 10, 1824 in Mühlheim am Main as Peter Trei ; † July 8, 1894 in Oberstein , today Idar-Oberstein ) was a German lithographer and founding father. Among other things, he founded the Obersteiner Turnverein .

Life

After his apprenticeship as a stone printer , Drey moved to Idar-Oberstein. There he worked in the Danner printing company.

In March 1848 Drey founded the Obersteiner Turnverein together with Jacob Danner . On September 19 of the same year he was arrested on the Römerberg in Frankfurt am Main, one day after the popular uprising fought by Prussian troops. First he was imprisoned in Frankfurt, then in the Mainz Citadel . As a result, he was terminated without notice by Danner, but then financially supported by members of the gymnastics clubs in Oberstein, Idar and Kreuznach . In 1849 he was finally released from prison. From then on Drey worked as a freelance lithographer and changed the spelling of his name from "Trei" to "Drey".

On April 7, 1850, Drey submitted an application for citizenship, which was approved eleven days later by the Grand Ducal Oldenburg government in Birkenfeld . On April 30th, he finally married the Protestant cleaner Luise Leyser, who was eight years his senior . Both have been German-Catholic since their marriage, as Drey is a member of the German-Catholic community in Offenbach am Main. From now on, the Dreys family also runs a toy shop at Hauptstrasse 411 in Oberstein. In 1852 and 1854 they had children Emma Guta Hedwig and Karl Hermann. The wife died in 1888.

In the summer of the same year, Carl Schurz secretly visited the family on his way to Trier and was given shelter there during the revolutionary unrest. Drey obtained a stamp for his passport (with the false name Heribert Jüssen) from his brother-in-law, the court clerk Johann Jakob Leyser .

In 1857 Drey founded the local volunteer fire brigade with other members of the Oberstein gymnastics club . Drey becomes a fire chief. In 1859, on May 8, he signed a business contract with Danner to jointly found a lithographic company in Oberstein. However, Danner dies two years later on October 1st. Drey then repays all deposits to Danner's widow by 1865 .

On May 31, 1864, Drey was granted permission to print and publish the weekly Nahethal-Bote , the first local newspaper in Oberstein. In 1865 he sold the majority stake in the newspaper to the Veitsrodter printer Julius Hehner . However, it is later printed in the Josef Rupp printing house, since 1989 by the Stolz family in Lindenbach.

Drey was also on the executive committee of the "Free Party" and ran for the Oldenburg state parliament. During the Danish-Prussian War , Drey started charitable relief efforts for the needy Schleswig-Holstein population. In 1866 he finally gave the impetus to found the fire brigade in Idar. Drey organized organized humanitarian aid for the wounded during the Franco-Prussian War .

On December 10, 1876, he founded the German Catholic Free Religious Community of Oberstein. He himself was the chairman of the religious community. He was also the host of free religious preachers in Oberstein: Johannes Ronge from Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Czerski from Schneidemühl , Gustav Adolph Wislicenus from Halle / Saale , Carl Voigt from Offenbach am Main and Georg Schneider from Mannheim .

Drey died on July 8, 1894 after a long and serious illness. Numerous citizens and delegations from the municipal and foreign associations formed a large funeral procession to the cemetery on Kirchhofshübel.

Honors

In 2007 in Idar-Oberstein the Peter-Drey-Brücke over the Nahe-Hochstraße was named after him. There is a badge on the bridge with important life data.

A cross-country run in Weierbach near Idar-Oberstein is named after Drey .

literature

  • Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the gymnastics club 1848 Oberstein eV 1998 (city archive)
  • Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Free Religious Community Idar-Oberstein, corporation under public law, Idar-Oberstein 1976
  • Drey, Cilly: History of the Drey House, private printing Idar-Oberstein 1987/89
  • Nahethal messenger of July 10, 1894 (city archive)
  • Wolf, Werner / Koch, Rainer (ed.): Hesse in the revolution of 1848/1849. Kelkheim 1989. ISBN 3-923420-12-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Peter Drey - Tabular curriculum vitae (PDF file)
  2. ^ German biography. In: deutsche-biographie.de. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Peter Drey in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on August 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Peter Drey A founding father from Oberstein. In: idar-oberstein.de. October 14, 2009, accessed July 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Peter Drey - Cross-country running in Idar-Oberstein-Weierbach. In: langstrecken.de. Retrieved July 12, 2017 .
  6. ↑ 02/27/2016 Peter Drey Cross Lauf Weierbach. In: llghunsrueck.de. January 9, 2016, accessed July 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Drey, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trei, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlheim am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1894
Place of death Idar-Oberstein