Walter Bau (teacher)

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Walter Theodor Bau (born January 29, 1888 in Kleinwelka ; † June 9, 1967 in Königsfeld in the Black Forest ) was a German teacher, geologist , paleontologist and zoologist .

Walter Bau, the district commissioner for nature conservation in the Cosel district in 1938.

Career

Bau came as the eldest of six children of the married couple Johannes and Pauline Bau, geb. van Calker, to the world. The parents ran the girls' institution in Kleinwelka. Later his father worked in the missionary office in Herrnhut . The open-mindedness of the Moravians was formative for his life.

He attended the teachers' seminar in Niesky , where he passed the first teacher examination in February 1908. Then he taught at the boys' institute in Neuwied . After the school was closed, he returned to Niesky in 1913, where he taught at the pedagogy department and passed the second teacher examination in July 1914. Shortly afterwards he took over the management of the local school in the Herrnhuteriedlung Gnadenfeld . During the First World War , he served as a soldier between 1915 and 1918. In 1919 he married the pastor's daughter Margarete Rieke, who came from the Lüneburg Heath . The marriage had two sons who died in World War II in 1944 .

In addition to his teaching activities, Bau wrote numerous publications on local history as well as on geology, paleontology and the animal world of Upper Silesia. He was considered one of the most active members of the Geological Association of Upper Silesia . On the occasion of the takeover of the nature reserve "Höhe 285.5 (Pontischer Hügel)" by the city of Katscher , Bau held one of the opening lectures alongside Gustav Eisenreich and Richard Keilholz in 1932 and spoke about the relationship between Gnadenfeld and the site. During the Nazi era , Walter Bau was a voluntary commissioner for nature conservation in the Cosel district .

After the end of the Second World War, the Protestant population was expelled from Gnadenfeld. Bau was the last civilian to leave the place on foot. He and his wife initially spent several months in a camp in Eger . At the end of 1945 the couple came to Königsfeld in the Black Forest. There he resumed his work as a teacher and was active in the community council, in the public library and in the council of elders. At the end of his professional career, he retired as the main teacher.

In addition, he was also active in his new home as a researcher on geological development. He collected small mammal bones from bulbs and especially conchylia , which he gave to the Municipal Museum for Natural History in Freiburg. The State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart appointed him a specialist member of its sponsoring society.

Honors

Fonts

  • Gnadenfeld. Commemorative sheets for the 150th anniversary of the town's foundation; At the same time a contribution to the work of the Moravians in Upper Silesia , Verlag Der Oberschlesier, Oppeln 1932
  • The geological collection of the Gnadenfelder Heimatstube , In: Annual report of the Geological Association of Upper Silesia, II. Pp. 62–65, Gleiwitz 1932
  • What the sand pit tells , three-part essay, In: Coseler Heimatkalender 1936, p. 124 ff .; 1938 p. 96 ff . ; 1939 pp. 126-128
  • Small mammals in Oberschlesien , In: Der Oberschlesier, Vol. 17, Issue 9, 1935, pp. 529-532
  • The geological development of the area around Kostenthal , In: Der Oberschlesier, 19. S. 545–548, Oppeln 1937
  • An interglacial mollusc fauna in glacial sands near Gnadenfeld , In: Annual report of the Geological Association of Upper Silesia, IS 11–24, Gleiwitz 1938
  • What do I have to do with nature conservation? In: Coseler home calendar . 1939, pp. 54-58
  • On the knowledge of the Upper Silesian loess snail fauna , In: Annual report of the Geological Association of Upper Silesia, pp. 39–43, Gleiwitz 1940
  • A new find in the Gnadenfelder Valvatensanden . In:, In: Annual report of the Geological Association of Upper Silesia, p. 43, Gleiwitz 1940
  • The home parlor in Gnadenfeld. In: Coseler Heimatkalender , 1942, p. 92

literature

  • Walter Bau: pedagogue, geologist, palaeontologist and zoologist , In: Annuals of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg 123, pp. 18–19, Stuttgart 1968 (with illustration)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual books of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg, Volumes 143–144, 1988, p. 113
  2. ↑ It shouldn't look like this in a village! In: Coseler Heimatkalender, 1939, p. 93
  3. ^ Małgorzata Labus: The Geological Association of Upper Silesia. In: The cut. Magazine for art and culture in mining. Ed .: Association of Friends of Art and Culture in Mining, German Mining Museum, Bochum 2007, Volume 59, Issue 2–3, pp. 81–82
  4. ↑ Gustav Eisenreich (Ed.): Annual reports of the Geological Association of Upper Silesia. Part 2, activity of the Geological Association of Upper Silesia in 1932 , p. 34
  5. ^ The district shop steward for homeland security. In: Coseler home calendar . 1939, p. 58
personal data
SURNAME Construction, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bau, Walter Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, geologist, paleontologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinwelka
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1967
Place of death Königsfeld in the Black Forest