Peter Smidt

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Peter Smidt (born April 13, 1894 Manslagt , East Friesland ; † March 22, 1957 Oldenburg , Lower Saxony ) was a German poet , writer and gymnast . He is considered the "father of gymnastics" on the North Sea island of Juist .

Life

Smidt married Eleonore "Nora" Leege, the only daughter of the naturalist and local researcher Otto Leege (1862–1951). On July 1, 1930, Smidt, who worked as a senior telegraph inspector and wore the blue uniform of the Reichspost , took over the post and telegraph office on the island of Juist , which had existed since May 9, 1885 . This was a position that his father-in-law also held between 1882 and 1907. Just shortly before, on June 18, 1930, Juist had been connected to the mainland telephone network. In 1931 Smidt's daughter Leonore was born.

In the same year, on September 20, gymnasts from the Jahn gymnastics club from the North Sea island of Borkum visited the Juister gymnastics club, which organized the Juister gymnastics festival. Smidt was the organizer. A joint gymnastics demonstration was shown in the Hotel Claassens on the island. The following day the gymnasts from Borkum started their way home. The motor cutter "Annamarie" they used , however, missed the fairway and ran aground at Haaks-Gat, on the Seehundsplate northwest of the bird island Memmert . Fifteen people, most of them young gymnasts from Borkum, drowned in the heavy surf that destroyed the cutter, only four people could be saved. This event, which is still remembered on the islands today, was processed by Smidt in his story Das Kreuz von Memmert .

Between 1944 and 1956, Smidt kept a large-format diary that describes in detail personal and contemporary events and contains many newspaper clippings. His daughter Leonore de Boer made these collected records available to the Otto Leege Institute for research and study purposes.

Works (excerpt)

  • Peter Smidt: The island of Juist . Volume 13 of the series Germany's North Sea Baths. Meissner's publishing house. Hamburg 1936.
  • Peter Smidt: Rook in de Köök. Smuggling Kummedi in 3 trips . Stage manuscript. K. Mahnke. Verden / Aller 1938, 1949.
  • Peter Smidt: De Strandloper . In: Hermann Lüdken, Heinz von der Wall (eds.): Dat Schrieverkring-Book . Holzberg. Oldenburg 1983, ISBN 3-87358-174-4 , p. 139.
  • Peter Smidt: Post-season . In: Christine Brückner (Ed.): Juist - A reading book . Ullstein, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-548-24962-9 .
  • Peter Smidt (author), Hans Kolde , Renate Kolde (arr.): The cross of Memmert. The dramatic story of the sinking of the Borkum motor cutter “Annemarie” in September 1931. Alt Juist publishing house, Juist 2006, ISBN 978-3-937767-13-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Smidt: When the post-signal whistle still trilled on Juist (with photos by Peter Smidt) , on: juist-bilderbuch.de, accessed on April 8, 2016
  2. ^ Nameless cemetery and "Dodemannsdelle": The maritime death on the island of Borkum , from: fof-ohlsdorf.de, accessed on March 12, 2018
  3. ↑ Honorary membership for Leege's granddaughter ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Ostfriesischer Kurier , January 15, 2011 (PDF file, 916 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / juist-urlaub.de
  4. ↑ Stadtarchiv Flensburg, S Collections, XIII Documentation, XIII Bü - Archivbücherei, 02222 Smi
personal data
SURNAME Smidt, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Manslagt , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1957
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb) , Lower Saxony