Siegfried Sieber

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Siegfried Sieber, portrait from the monument in Aue

Siegfried Ludwig Sieber (born March 27, 1885 in Oschatz ; † July 18, 1977 in Aue ) was a German educator and local researcher and writer from the Ore Mountains .

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The son of the royal music director Friedrich Sieber attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden and was a member of the Kreuzchor there . In April 1907 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig to study German, history and geography, moved to Munich for two semesters in October 1908 and completed his studies in September 1910. In the same year he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. After completing the state examination, with which he obtained the license to teach, he found his new home in the city of Aue in 1913 and was employed as a teacher at the secondary school there. Before the outbreak of war he married Charlotte Binder from Leipzig- Gohlis . During the First World War Sieber served - most recently as a lieutenant - in Serbia . Back in Aue, he founded the adult education center in 1919 , and a museum association in 1922 , which later became the local history museum, which he also directed for many years. In 1921 he was appointed to the faculty. Already at this point in time he began his scientific and journalistic work on the history of the city of Aue . His first important piece of local history is the commemorative publication on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Aue. These research results on the city's history, published for the first time in a comprehensive work, are still the basis for “city birthdays”, although newer archive materials show a later year. Many other works followed, in particular on the mining and industrial history of the city and the Ore Mountains, z. B. a series of essays on the history of the hammer mills , which appeared between 1925 and 1928 in the homeland papers . Sieber was characterized by a selfless diligence in research into old age. Numerous contributions have been made in rows as the Freiberg Research stapling , the Urania , research and progress , the Saxon homeland leaves , the culture and the home as well as in home friend of the circle Aue and in the home of a friend for the Erzgebirge . He played a major role in three volumes in the Values ​​of the German Homeland series . Altogether there are around 30 books and more than 1,500 individual treatises by Sieber. Sieber also worked as a monument conservator . He has been a member of the Kulturbund (KB) since it was founded in 1945. In terms of folklore works, his participation in the outline of Saxon folklore , his monograph on lace making in the Ore Mountains and his around 10 years of active participation in the editorial board of the weekly newspaper Glück auf should be emphasized. Although Sieber had never been a member of the NSDAP , he was dismissed from school due to denunciation in 1946 when the Soviet occupation zone was denazified . Subsequently he worked as a private scholar a. a. for the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and at the Volkshochschule Aue.

Sieber was u. a. Member of the Saxon Antiquities Association , the Association for Saxon Folklore and for a long time led the gathering of local researchers from the West Ore Mountains , which arose at his suggestion. From 1939 he was a member of the Saxon Commission for History.

Sieber had been born with Charlotte since 1913. Binder (1890–1973) married and had a son. The family grave is located in the municipal cemetery on Schwarzenberger Straße .

Honors

Monument to Sieber in Aue

In 1965 Sieber was awarded the badge of honor for local history achievements in gold in recognition of his research work and the Leibniz Medal from the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In 1973 he received the honorary citizenship of the city of Aue. In his honor, a working group of homeland researchers in the Western Ore Mountains, which meets twice a year, bears the name Siegfried Sieber . On the occasion of his 110th birthday, a memorial was inaugurated during the park festival in 1995 in the presence of his son Arnulf Sieber at the foot of the Heidelsberg in Aue.

Major works

  • Popular amusements at German imperial coronations , Diss. Leipzig 1911.
  • Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the city of Aue in the Ore Mountains on May 7, 1923 . 1923, reprint 2007.
  • The Ore Mountains. Landscape and people , Dresden 1930.
  • The history of the Niederpfannenstiel blue paint factory , 1935.
  • Bridal trip to the Ore Mountains . Glück-Auf Verlag, Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb., 1940.
  • Small town in the storm , novel from the revolutionary year 1848; around 1944; Matthes VBH, Prague-Leipzig a. Hartenstein.
  • On the history of mining in the Ore Mountains . Knapp, 1954.
  • The mining landscape around Schwarzenberg . Manuscript, 1967.
  • Studies on the industrial history of the Ore Mountains . Böhlau, 1967.
  • The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock . Values ​​of the German homeland Vol. 11, 1967.
  • From Annaberg to Oberwiesenthal . Values ​​of the German homeland Vol. 13, 1969.
  • Around Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt . Values ​​of our homeland Vol. 20, 1972.
  • Beloved Erzgebirge home . Chemnitzer Verlag, 1997.

estate

Siegfried Sieber's academic estate has been in the Aue district archive since 2013.

literature

  • Manfred Unger : teacher and scholar, Siegfried Sieber (1885–1977) and the regional cultural history of the western Ore Mountains . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 48, 2003, issue 4, pp. 320–341. ISSN  0486-8234
  • Lothar Walther (Ed.): Aue, mosaic stones of history . Ed. Stadtverwaltung Aue, printing and publishing house Mike Rockstroh, Aue 1997, pp. 214–224, DNB 1017288267
  • Manfred Bachmann (Ed.): Dr. Siegfried Sieber - passionate local researcher and writer. In: Small chronicle of great masters - Erzgebirge we are proud of. Part 1, printer and publisher Mike Rockstroh, Aue 2000, pp. 96–98.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Walther (Ed.): Aue, mosaic stones of history . Ed. Stadtverwaltung Aue, printing and publishing house Mike Rockstroh, Aue 1997, pp. 214–224. DNB 1017288267
  2. ↑ Kleine Stadt im Sturm : Title image and book details (enter "Sturm" in the search window); accessed on March 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Sieber, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sieber, Siegfried Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German senior director and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschatz
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1977
Place of death Aue