Walter Scheibler

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Walter Bernhard Scheibler (born June 26, 1880 in Monschau ; † January 1, 1965 ibid) was a German district administrator , mayor of Monschau and local historian .

Live and act

Walter Scheibler was the son of Monschau cloth manufacturer and councilor Bernhard Heinrich Scheibler (1846–1918) and his wife Julie, née. Scheibler (* 1851), daughter of the cloth manufacturer Johann Heinrich Louis Scheibler (1817–1887) and sister of the art historian Ludwig Scheibler (1848–1921) from a cousin of the extensive family. As a trained lawyer and banker, it was reserved for him to manage the troubled and difficult cloth industry founded by his great-great-great-grandfather Johann Heinrich Scheibler (1705–1765) and successfully run by the family for almost 200 years after the early death of his father To take over and continue times shaped by two world wars.

Scheibler worked part-time as a city ​​councilor , alderman and district council member and, during the war years, as mayor in local politics. A few months before the end of the Second World War , as part of the Morgenthau Plan that has now been drawn up, he was initially appointed by the Allied military government as acting district administrator for the Monschau district in September 1944 , after parts of the Monschau region were closed in September after the German army's unsuccessful and repulsed Ardennes offensive 1944 in the hands of the Allies and especially in the hands of the Americans. Under the commandant Captain Robert A. Goetcheus, Scheibler inspected the liberated communities and places belonging to the Monschau district in order to get an idea of ​​the possible administrative structure on site. Completely undemocratic and only by force of instruction, he appointed provisionally selected and qualified persons to be mayors and mayors in these places, who were then supposed to create new structures for building up everyday life themselves. This earned Scheibler high recognition from his commanding officer, so that he was finally officially confirmed as district administrator on March 10, 1945. A few months later, on June 1, he was released from this task after a letter became known in which people, including himself, were named as allegedly formerly active members of the NSDAP or one of its sub-organizations. Scheibler vehemently denied this and noted by means of examples that in reality he had brought politically persecuted people to safety, listened to enemy radio stations and repeatedly risked head and neck with sabotage.

After the decline of the traditional Monschau cloth industry, which was also due to cheap and mass production abroad and with no prospect of a new upswing, it was finally up to Walter Scheibler to finally shut down cloth production in the Scheibler family six generations after it was founded in 1957.

In addition, Scheibler worked as a church master , local and weather expert, writer and local photographer. As a staunch hiker, he had been a member of the German Alpine Club Aachen section since 1900 , of which he was made an honorary member in 1950. Scheibler was also one of the founders and first chairmen of the Eifelverein Monschau on March 26, 1949 in the Troistorff house in Monschau. He held the chairmanship until 1959 and then took on the position of deputy chairman until his death in 1965. He also devoted himself to ski tourism and wrote reports on local snow suitability. Scheibler also published several writings in which he describes both the regional environment and the history of the Scheibler family in detail.

For his numerous services, Walter Scheibler was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1956 and made an honorary citizen of the city of Monschau, and a street in Monschau was posthumously named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Walter Scheibler and Mathias Brixius: 60 years of soldiers' comradeship in Monschau . In: The Hermit on the High Fens . 10th year, no. 9 . Monschau September 1935, p. 113–128 ( Digital Collections of the University of Cologne [accessed on August 8, 2015]).
  • Walter Scheibler and Mathias Brixius: 60 years of soldiers' comradeship in Monschau . (Enough). In: The Hermit on the High Fens . 10th year, no. 10 . Monschau October 1935, p. 129–144 ( Digital Collections of the University of Cologne [accessed on August 8, 2015]).
  • Documented news about the old Protestant cemetery on Walchenau . In: The Hermit on the High Fens . 10th year, no. 12 . Monschau December 1935, p. 162 ( Digital Collections of the University of Cologne [accessed on August 8, 2015]).
  • The place name "Little France" . In: The Hermit on the High Fens . 11th year, no. 11 . Monschau November 1936, p. 175–176 ( Digital Collections of the University of Cologne [accessed on August 8, 2015]).
  • History and fate of a company in six generations (1724–1937) , Aachen, 1937
  • History of the Protestant community of Monschau: 1520-1939 , Rehnisch, Aachen, 1939
  • Monschau economic pioneers in the east , Eifeljahrbuch, vol., 1941
  • Half a century of precipitation measurements and weather observations at Monschau: 1898 to 1949. At the same time, a weather booklet for everyone , Heimatschriftenschrift No. 1, Monschau, 1950
  • Life and family of the church historian Johann Heinrich Kurtz from Monschau 1809 - 1890 , Verlag Kirche in der Zeit, Düsseldorf, 1952
  • History of the three evangelical Eifel communities in the Monschau district: Monschau-Menzerath-Imgenbroich, Zweifall, Roetgen , evangelical synod of Aachen, 1955
  • Monschauer Wirtschaftspioniere im Osten , in: Das Monschauer Land , yearbook 1955
  • My beautiful home: Of growing, building and living in the North Eifel , Stollfuß, Bonn, 1955
  • On the 250th birthday of Johann Heinrich Scheibler, founder of the cloth industry , in: Das Monschauer Land , yearbook 1956
  • 300 years of the Scheibler family in the Rhineland , Eifel yearbook, born 58,
  • Between two fronts: War diary of the district of Monschau , Weiss, Monschau, 1959

Literature and Sources

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mention of Scheibler in " Suddenly there were no more Nazis " in the Aachener Zeitung on April 23, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Scheibler, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheibler, Walter Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district administrator, mayor of Monschau and local historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Monschau
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1965
Place of death Monschau