Timm Kroeger

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Timm Kröger, around 1890

Timm Kröger (born November 29, 1844 in Haale ( Rendsburg district ), † March 29, 1918 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer and writer . He wrote novellas , stories and sketches that describe the Holstein farm and country life. His nephew was the imperial building officer Jürgen Kröger .

Life

Timm Kröger was born as the son of the wealthy farmer Hans Kröger (1800–1855) and the Trienke born. Bornhold († 1888) born. After attending elementary school in Hohenwestedt, he managed his mother's senior part. In 1864 he decided to study law . During his studies at Kiel University , he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity in Kiel in 1864 . His other places of study included Zurich , Leipzig and Berlin .

In 1869 he was a trainee lawyer in Meldorf , where he also met his first wife Wiebcke Catharina Margaretha Idaline, nee. Boie († 1887) got to know, whom he married in 1876, and then worked in Altona and Kiel. He later lived as a district judge and assistant public prosecutor in Calbe an der Saale and some East and West Prussian towns: Lyck , Pillkallen , Angerburg and Marienburg. From 1876 he worked as a lawyer and notary in Flensburg , from 1880 in Elmshorn and from 1892 in Kiel. In 1903 he gave up his profession and has lived as a freelance writer ever since.

With his wife Idaline geb. Boie he had at least two children, a daughter named Louise Helene (born June 2, 1877 Flensburg) and a son named Hans Boie (born February 8, 1879 Flensburg).

On February 7, 1890, he married Hilda Elfrieda Jacobine Boie (born June 13, 1852) in Altona , daughter of the late owner Friedrich Theodor Boie and Beate Friedericke nee. Voss from Thalingburen , parish Meldorf .

Artistic creation

In his handwritten résumé of Timm Kröger , handwritten in 1902 , he reports that his acquaintance with Detlev von Liliencron, who was the same age, stimulated him to produce literary products . The humorous sketch "Die Roßtrappe von Neudorf" was published in the naturalistic literary magazine Die Gesellschaft with Liliencron's assistance . Kröger's literary role models include Theodor Storm , Wilhelm Raabe and Leo Tolstoy . As a writer, he described rural life in Schleswig-Holstein, inspired by his childhood in Haale. His storytelling has impressionistic and humorous traits.

In many North German communities streets and schools were named after him.

Works

  • A quiet world. Pictures and stories from moor and heather (1891)
  • Der Schulmeister von Handewitt (1893), in the 2nd edition under the title Schuld?
  • The Apartment of Happiness (1897)
  • Hein Wieck and other stories (1899)
  • People of their own kind (1904)
  • Around the Road Customs (1904)
  • The Only One and His Love (1905)
  • Homecoming (1906)
  • With the Hammer (1906)
  • The Book of Good People (1908)
  • From an old chest (1908)
  • The Coming of the Empire (1909)
  • From a dawning distance - memories of youth by Timm Kröger. Georg Westermann, Braunschweig a. Hamburg 1924
  • Novellas. Complete edition in 6 volumes. Alfred Janssen, Hamburg 1914
  • Wha Jürn Hölk the Düwel ziteer. Richard Hermes, Hamburg 1919

literature

  • Jacob Bödewadt: Timm Kröger. A German poet of his own kind . Janssen, Hamburg 1916.
  • Jacob Bödewadt: Timm Kröger memorial book. For the poet's 75th birthday . Westermann, Braunschweig 1920.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 422-423.
  • Gustav Falke: Timm Kröger . Janssen, 1906.
  • Wilhelm Hacker: Timm Kröger's confessional poem "To the unknown God!" . Univ. Diss., Marburg 1930.
  • Joachim Hartig:  Kröger, Timm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 57 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Ernst Peters : Timm Kröger - the poet of our homeland . Schleswig, [1954]. Published online from the estate 2012. University Library Potsdam
  • Tobias Röhnelt: The poet lawyer Timm Kröger - Life and Work Frankfurt am Main 2009 (= Legal History Series, Volume 379)
  • Franz Schriewer: Timm Kröger as a poet for the homeland. A guide to his values ​​and works . Nordischer Heimatverlag Nölke, Bordesholm o. J. [1924]
  • Karl Schwarzbeck: The poetic development of Timm Kröger and his narrative technique . Munster 1929.
  • Sibylle Strobel: A community of individuals. Personal, social and collective identity in the nineteenth century using the example of Protestant intellectuals. Dissertation, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1996.

Honors

  • Different streets and a. in Hamburg, Hanover, Heide, Elmshorn, Itzehoe, Kiel, Quickborn, Schleswig and Stade were given names.
  • The Timm-Kröger-Weg in Cuxhaven -Süderwisch was named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Known Teutenherberg - fraternity Teutonia Kiel .
  2. ↑ Ancestry - register. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ancestry - register. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ancestry - register. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ancestry - register. Retrieved December 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Trio in Haale on the trail of a local poet, Landeszeitung of February 14, 2015, page 22

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personal data
SURNAME Kroger, Timm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Haale
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1918
Place of death Kiel