Walter Ewert

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Walter Ewert (born August 21, 1895 in Damgarten ; † December 31, 1975 in Steinmocker ) was a cantor , teacher , local researcher , archive and monument curator of the Greifswald-Land district .

Walter Ewert

Life

His father was a master painter, who was mainly used for the restoration of churches and by the surrounding landowners to design their castles and manor houses. In the hope of better earning opportunities, the father went to America in 1913 or 1914. He probably initially intended to bring his family to join him, but the connection with him broke off with the outbreak of the First World War. His wife had to feed Walter and his two younger siblings as a seamstress and train them. So the children grew up in modest circumstances.

From 1902 to 1912 Walter Ewert attended school in Damgarten and was then prepared for his profession from April 16, 1912 at the teachers' seminar in Ducherow and later in Pölitz . Even then he dealt with historical topics. In his estate there is a manuscript (75 pages), dated July 1913, with the subject “History of the City of Damgarten”.

After completing his teacher training, he became a soldier in 1915 and went to the front. As a result of being shot through the head, he lost one eye and one ear. After the end of the war and recovery, he was hired as a teacher in Todenhagen in 1920 . Then he was a teacher in Hagen on Rügen, where he met his wife in the neighboring village of Lohme . On April 7, 1921, he was employed as a teacher in Gützkow and at the same time held the office of cantor, and from 1928 also the office of organist. On May 20, 1921 he married the fisherman's daughter Else Hauer (born April 14, 1894 in Lohme, † November 2, 1957 in Gützkow). The wedding took place in Bobbin on Rügen. The son Hans-Joachim was born on January 15, 1923. Years of rich creativity followed as a teacher, cantor, organist, choir director, archive curator and district curator for soil antiquities.

Grave of the Ewert family in Gützkow

In January 1930, Walter Ewert conducted the first rescue excavation on the Schlossberg in Gützkow. At the end of 1932, he informed the man who was in charge of cultural and historical soil antiquities, Wilhelm Petzsch , that Mayor Gützkows was planning to remove soil from the Schlossberg in order to fill in the nearby mill pond, and in doing so initiated the excavations by Karl August Wilde, in which Ewert actively helped.

In 1945 he was dismissed from school. His valuable historical library was burned and he was given another apartment. His son, who returned from the war wounded, did not recover and died on April 14, 1947. His wife became moody and passed away ten years later. Nevertheless, Walter Ewert continued to work as a cantor and took over other church offices. On September 5, 1960, he married a distant relative, Käthe Knoll, who worked as a teacher in Steinmocker, and moved in with her. In the village he took over the library. From 1973 the eyesight of his other eye became increasingly weaker and he went blind. Walter Ewert was buried in Gützkow next to his first family. In 1996 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Gützkow posthumously.

Fonts

  • Family stories from old church registers. In: Our Pommerland . 9th year, Stettin 1924, p. 64.
  • The Gützkow landscape at the time of the fall. In: Our Pommerland. Volume 10, Stettin 1925, pp. 57-62.
  • The time of the counts of Gützkow. In: Our Pommerland. Volume 10, Stettin 1925, pp. 477-480.
  • Investigations into the Wendish finds from Gützkow. In: Our Pommerland. 12th year, Stettin 1927, pp. 99-103.
  • Homeland Security in Gützkow and the surrounding area. In: Gützkower Zeitung 4./5./8. May 1927
  • The plebanate at the St. Nikolaikirche in Gützkow. In: Our Pommerland. 13th year, Stettin 1928, pp. 355f.
  • Bishop Otto von Bamberg in Gützkow. In: Greifswalder Zeitung 1928.
  • 800 years of Gützkow history. Manuscript May 13, 1928.
  • From the history of the St. Nikolai Church in Gützkow. Oehmke, Gützkow 1928.
  • What the Gützkow finds tell. In: Gützkower Zeitung of September 29, 1929.
  • The excavations on the Schloßberg zu Gützkow. Manuscript 1930.
  • About the Neuvorpommerschen Stadtrezesse. With special consideration of Gützkows. In: Gützkower Zeitung of January 11, 1931.
  • From the building history of the St. Nikolaikirche zu Gützkow. In: Greifswalder Zeitung 1935.
  • Gützkow. The count city on the Peene. Oehmke, Gützkow 1935.

literature

  • Werner Wöller: Walter Ewert, his life and work in Gützkow. Typescript, Gützkow 1983. (108 pages)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ s. a. Territorial Church History: Development, Tasks, Examples / E.-M.-Arndt-Univ.Greifswald, Sekt.Theol., Department of Church History. Greifswald 1984, p. 52 u. Note 18.
  2. ^ Excavation report in the estate. Slightly abbreviated in the local supplement of the “Jarmener Zeitung” with Gützkower Zeitung No. 7, year 1932.
  3. ↑ W. Petzsch u. KA Wilde in the communications from the collection of prehistoric antiquities at the University of Greifswald . Issue VII 1935.


personal data
SURNAME Ewert, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cantor, teacher, local historian, ground monument curator
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Damgarten
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1975
Place of death Stonemason