Robert Jahn (local history researcher)

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Robert Albin Jahn (born October 22, 1874 in Groitzsch , † February 17, 1953 in Leipzig ) was a German teacher and local researcher in the Saxon mountain town of Johanngeorgenstadt and the surrounding area.

Life

Jahn, whose ancestors were among the Bohemian exiles who founded Johanngeorgenstadt in 1654 , was born in the trade fair city of Leipzig. After completing school and teacher training, he was elected director of the community school in Johanngeorgenstadt on October 15, 1912. He took up this post on February 1, 1913. In the same year he presented the first city guide of Johanngeorgenstadt, which today still serves as an important basis for reconstructing the situation in this city before the First World War in words and pictures.

After nine years, he resigned the director's office in 1922 in order to devote himself more to researching local history. He had a house built above the city not far from the dump of the Scharschacht at Eibenstocker Straße 47 (B 21 E), in which he carried out extensive research on the history of Johanngeorgenstadt and the surrounding area. In the community school he continued to work as a teacher, teaching mainly local history. At an advanced age he resigned from his teaching post in World War II. He died on February 17, 1953 in Leipzig, which saved him from witnessing how the demolition of the city began that year, the history of which he had researched so intensively. He also devoted some of his research to his hometown Groitzsch .

Honors

The city of Johanngeorgenstadt honored Robert Jahn by naming the square in front of his house in Robert-Jahn- Platz in 1990 .

Works (selection)

  • Contributions to the town history of Groitzsch , several episodes.
  • Johanngeorgenstadt and the surrounding area in words and pictures. Johanngeorgenstadt undated (approx. 1913).
  • Johanngeorgenstadt and the surrounding area. An Erzgebirge cityscape. In: Aue and the surrounding area. Berlin-Charlottenburg 1927
  • Steinbach in the Auersberg area - for the 400th anniversary 1530–1930. Johanngeorgenstadt 1930.
  • On the flat. Johanngeorgenstadt 1932.
  • I will guide you through Johanngeorgenstadt and the surrounding area in winter and summer. Johanngeorgenstadt 1936.
  • 200 years of Däumerhaus in the Ore Mountains 1736–1936. Erlabrunn in the Ore Mountains in 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle of the 20th Century at johanngeorgenstadt.de, accessed on October 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahn, Robert Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Groitzsch
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1953
Place of death Leipzig