Renate Sturm-Francke

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Renate Sturm-Francke (born January 24, 1903 in Störmthal , † September 27, 1979 in Grimma ) was a German museum director, ground monument curator and local history researcher.

Life

Renate Francke - that was her birth name - was born in Störmthal, south of Leipzig. In addition to five siblings, she was the daughter of Karl Francke and his wife Frida Gabriele, née Brückmann. After the family moved to Grimma in 1910, after finishing elementary school , she attended the secondary school for girls there . At the age of 16 she went to Dresden to train as a kindergarten teacher in two years. But she never worked in this profession.

Instead, she expanded her knowledge. She learned English, French, Spanish and Latin. At Leipzig University, she took courses in philosophy, art history, economics and law.

In 1927 she married the lawyer Johannes Sturm (1901–1986) and took on the double name Sturm-Francke, which was still unusual for this time. In 1934 a house in the Grimma district of Hohnstädt was bought by the descendants of the publisher Georg Joachim Göschen , who later became the Göschenhaus . Both spouses lived in this house well into old age, but went their separate ways. During the Second World War she worked for the Bode printing house in Grimma as an employee, correspondent and proofreader.

Her interest in regional history awoke early on and she began collecting objects from the local history. In 1949 she took an active part in archaeological excavations in Sachsendorf near Wurzen, Nimbschen Monastery , Klinga , Pomßen and Großsteinberg . She had knowledge and tasks as a ground monument conservator , in the preservation of monuments and in the field of folklore . From 1950 to 1955 she was director of the Grimma Local History Museum. When in 1954 the magazine Der Rundblick. Magazine for culture and home of the districts Wurzen, Oschatz and Grimma , she became a member of the editorial board and remained so until her death. She wrote around 300 articles.

In 1951 she helped set up the home parlor in Mutzschen with knowledge and materials . When she fell out with one of the local activists, the end of the facility threatened. Renate Sturm-Francke convinced a former history teacher and specialist advisor to take over the home parlor with her support. This museum still exists in Mutzschen today.

Renate Sturm-Francke has left her mark on numerous areas of cultural life in her immediate home .

The Göschenhaus

Renate Sturm-Francke found her life's work in her own home. With her collector's items, she founded the Heimatstube Hohnstädt in 1950, which she brought to her Göschenhaus in 1954. She expanded the exhibition into a memorial for the previous owner of the house. This made the Göschenhaus the first and only museum in Germany for a publisher. She later expanded the subject to include other poets who were connected to the house or Göschen, such as Friedrich Schiller , Johann Gottfried Seume and Christian Gottfried Körner .

The museum was always well attended. Their KKK events, which means culture with coffee and cake (homemade), were particularly popular. The tradition of the KKK events is still maintained today.

In order to preserve the museum after her death, she donated the Göschenhaus to the National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature in Weimar in 1967 . In 1979 the Leipzig City History Museum took over the Göschenhaus as a branch. The Göschenhaus has belonged to the city of Grimma since 1995.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Göschenhaus in Grimma-Hohnstädt . National research u. Memorials of Classical German Literature, Weimar 1977 (5th edition)
  • (with Gerhardt Gimpel): Tales on the history of the labor movement in the Grimmaer Land. For regional studies in 4th grade , Grimma 1958
  • (with Max Voigt): With pencil and camera to Bahren, Grimma district . In: Der Rundblick, Wurzen: Wurzener Tageblatt, Vol. 12 (1965), pp. 403-407.

literature

  • Manfred Müller: In memory of Renate Sturm-Franke. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 26, 1980, No. 5, pp. 238-239.
  • Harald Quietzsch: The newspaper "Nachrichten für Grimma" as a war and homeland mirror from 1940 to 1945. Journalism about the journalist Renate Sturm-Francke , Dresden 2003.
  • Bernd Erhard Fischer: Göschen & Seume in Grimma, 2nd revised. Ed., Berlin 2010, p. 30 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Sturm. In: MyHeritage. Retrieved June 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Göschenhaus in Grimma commemorates the founder Sturm-Francke. In: LVZ Grimma June 4, 2019. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Manfred Müller: In memory of Renate Sturm-Franke. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 26, 1980, No. 5, p. 238.
  4. ↑ History of the Göschenhaus. In: Website of the Göschenhaus. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Offers. In: Website of the Göschenhaus. Retrieved June 5, 2019 .
  6. ^ Renate Sturm-Francke. In: website of Großsteinberg. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sturm-Francke, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sturm, Frida Renate Sidonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German museum director, ground monument curator and local history researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Störmthal
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1979
Place of death Grimma