Walter Frobe

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Conrad Walter Fröbe (* 19th January 1889 in Geyer , † 3. March 1946 in . Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb ) was a German educator and Erzgebirge local historian and -schriftsteller.

Life

Fröbe was born in 1889 as the son of the mountain director Ernst Julius Fröbe (1851–1921) and his wife Emma Franziska (1853–1923) in Geyer. When his father took over the management of several treasure troves in the mining area between Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt , the family moved to Wildenau in 1891 . From 1896 to 1902 he attended the Selektenschule in Schwarzenberg and then the Realgymnasium in Annaberg , where he graduated from high school in 1908. That same year, he studied history, German and English at the University of Leipzig , and in 1912 with the thesis Elector Augustus of Saxony and his dealings with Denmark until the Peace of Stettin in 1570 magna cum laude Doctor of Philosophy PhD . After a six-month language stay in England and the completion of the examinations for the teaching post at secondary schools, he entered the preparatory service at the Dreikönigsschule in Dresden in 1913 .

As a war volunteer, he took part in battles on the western and eastern fronts during World War I from 1915 until the end of the war in 1918. In 1919 he married the Braunschweig dentist Natalie Maria Berg (1889–1977), with whom he had the daughter Christa Erika (1920–2008). In the same year he got a job at the grammar school in Schwarzenberg , where he initially worked as a teacher and from 1922 as senior director. Under his direction, this school was transformed into a secondary school .

In 1925 he founded the Schwarzenberg History Association, which he also chaired. He published his fundamental research on the history of the city of Schwarzenberg and the surrounding area in the following years. In particular, the collection Herrschaft und Stadt Schwarzenberg up to the 16th century is still regarded as a standard work of local history research in the West Ore Mountains.

Grave site of the Fröbe family in the St. Georgen cemetery in Schwarzenberg (2016)

From 1927 to 1943, he was the chief editor of the magazine Glückauf of the Erzgebirgsverein . By the DC circuit of the German clubs in April 1933, the Ore Mountain Club has been a member of the Association of German mountain and hiking clubs as a sports club in the National Socialist Reich Federation for Physical Education grouped. When in 1937 the alternative between joining the NSDAP and removal from the club's offices was made, Fröbe decided to join the party. Because of this he was dismissed from school service in 1945 after the end of the war. He took over a position as a lecturer with Erich Matthes in Hartenstein , but died a short time later in early March 1946 of cancer in Schwarzenberg, where he was buried in the Georgenfriedhof.

With his systematic historical research and presentation, Fröbe provides inspiration for his successors. The folklorist Gerhard Heilfurth called him in recognition of his source-critical research achievements as the "master of the West Ore Mountains local research".

Works

  • Elector August of Saxony and his relationship with Denmark until the Peace of Stettin in 1570 (dissertation), Leipzig 1912
  • Schwarzenberg. A political and economic outline of the palace, city and office (world centers of trade and industry), Berlin 1923
  • The history of the city of Schwarzenberg in Saxony , Schwarzenberg 1927
  • A millennium of Erzgebirge history. Local history in pictures , Schwarzenberg 1933
  • A millennium of Erzgebirge history. Local history in pictures , 2. z. Partly changed edition, Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1965
  • Rule and city of Schwarzenberg until the 16th century , Schwarzenberg 1930–1937
  • Schwarzenberg in the Erzgebirge ( historical hiking trips , 45), Dresden 1936
  • Anton Günther on his sixtieth! , Zeitschrift Glückauf , vol. 56 (1936), pp. 81-83
  • Mrs. Ava. Two different sheets from the diary of the maleficist to Grünhain AD 1460..1500 , Schwarzenberg 1937
  • Huthaus Lampertus and other Häuersteig stories from the Ore Mountains , Schwarzenberg 1938
  • Last shift. The Ore Mountains Häuersteig stories second part , Schwarzenberg 1940
  • Erzgebirgische Häuersteig stories , reissues from 1938 and 1940, Schwarzenberg 1994
  • Nicol Lepetit , Leipzig / Hartenstein 1941
  • Village behind the mountains , Hartenstein 1942.

Honors

There is a memorial stone for Walter Fröbe in front of the Schwarzenberg Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium as a former place of work. On June 30, 2001, the Treue Friendship Yellow Birch mining trail in Schwarzenberg was renamed Fröbesteig , a honor that applies to both Julius and Walter Fröbe.

literature

  • Konrad Till, Marianne Kircheis, Christine Grund: Dr. Walter Frobe. Local historian, writer, teacher (1889–1946) . In: Small Chronicle of Great Masters. Erzgebirge we are proud of, Vol. 1, Aue 2000, pp. 99-101
  • Walter Fröbe, Helmut Kirsch: A millennium of Ore Mountains history. Local history in pictures , 2. z. T. changed edition, Frankfurt am Main 1965, pp. 5-7
  • Martin Beer: A love of homeland shapes his work - 120 years ago today, teacher and historian Walter Fröbe was born . In: Freie Presse , Schwarzenberg local edition of January 19, 2009

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