Peter Willers Jessen (local history researcher)

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Peter Willers Jessen (born December 23, 1870 in Eckernförde ; † March 22, 1949 there ) was a German teacher , local researcher and local politician . Usually he is (only) referred to as Willers Jessen ; he himself published with this name.

Life

Willers-Jessen School

Jessen attended the municipal middle school and after confirmation went to the preparatory institute and the teachers' college in his hometown. The young teacher first taught in Süderstapel from 1892 before returning to Eckernförde in 1895. There he was a teacher at the boys' bourgeois school until 1921 - only interrupted by his two-year participation in the First World War - from 1932 he was its rector. The primary school was named "Willers-Jessen-Schule" after him in 1949 (closed since 2013).

In addition to his teaching profession, Jessen also held local political offices: in 1919 he was elected to the city council. In 1920/21 he was acting mayor in his hometown Eckernförde . From 1926 to 1929 he was a member of the district council.

Jessen also worked in the field of regional studies and local history and represented the sick curator of the Museum of Patriotic Antiquities in Kiel for a quarter of a year in 1899 . From 1924 to 1932 he was archivist for the Eckernförde district and in 1935, together with Christian Kock, founded the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schwansen, Amt Hütten, Dänischwohld” (today: Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde ). His publications, especially the “Heimatbuch des Kreis Eckernförde”, which he published in 1916 together with Kock, testify to his extensive knowledge of his closer homeland and the Stapelholm landscape . In 1928, Jessen and Kock were able to publish the Heimatbuch again in a greatly expanded version (a third, now two-volume edition appeared in 1967 and 1972, respectively). Jessen also collected extensive material for a "Chronicle of the Stapelholm Landscape", which, however, could only appear posthumously in 1950. He is also considered the first and most important collaborator on Otto Mensing's “ Schleswig-Holstein Dictionary ”.

In 1948 he was appointed honorary chairman of the working group he founded and an honorary member of the Schleswig-Holstein Homeland League.

Publications (selection)

  • with Reimer Hansen : Sources on the history of the diocese of Schleswig. University bookstore, Kiel 1904 (= source collection of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. Volume 6). OCLC 245954970 .
  • with Christian Kock: Heimatbuch des Kreis Eckernförde. Schwensen, Eckernförde 1916 OCLC 467921123 .
  • Chronicle of the Stapelholm landscape. 1950 (Reprint Schleswig 1989) OCLC 40546256 .
  • Hans Gudewerdt and the Eckernförde wood carving school with their masters Ciriacus Dirkes, Hans Dreyer, Hans Gudewerdt I, Hans Gudewerdt II, Hans Gudewerdt III, Lorentz Jories, Jürgen Koberch, Peter Neelsen. JC Schwensen-Verlag, Eckernförde 1931 OCLC 72553107 .
  • A hundred years ago: a memorial booklet on the day of Eckernförde, April 5, 1849. Reissued , Rohde bookstore, Eckernförde 1984 OCLC 65646906 .

literature

  • Klaus Jöns: Willers Jessen * December 23, 1870 † March 22, 1949, Willer Jessen in memory. In: The home. Vol. 56, 1949, No. 5, pp. 97-99 ( digitized version ).
  • Walter Alnor : Willers Jessen. The human u. his work. In: Yearbook of the local history study group Schwansen. Jg. 7, 1949, ZDB -ID 597556-6 , pp. 5-49.
  • Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg : preface to reprint. In: Chronicle of the Stapelholm landscape. Modifications made by Willers Jessen. 1950. Reprint Schleswig 1989, [p. 4-5].
  • Biographical lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 9, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1991, ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , p. 165.
  • 125 years ago. Willers Jessen. In: Schleswig-Holstein. 1995, ISSN  0937-7247 , p. 145.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde eV and department for regional history of Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Eckernförde-Lexikon , Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2014, ISBN 978-3-89876-735-4 , p. 151 and 363 f .; History of the home community .
personal data
SURNAME Jessen, Peter Willers
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jessen, Willers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, local researcher and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckernförde
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1949
Place of death Eckernförde