Wenzel Baier

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Wenzel Baier (born February 27, 1869 in Dobrawod ; † December 22, 1956 in Ingolstadt ) was a Sudeten German teacher, local politician and homeland researcher. It is his particular merit to have developed the three-class school in Neumarkt under his direction into one of the best in Bohemia.

Life

The son of a village teacher from the previous Teplá District he entered the age of eleven to by Teplá -maintained school Pilsen one. He then attended the teacher training college in Eger . In 1888 he became a teacher in the small town of Neumarkt in the Teplá district. After six other teaching positions, he returned to Neumarkt in 1893, where he became the headmaster of the school. Baier's main endeavor was to design his school through several major adaptations, the creation of a school garden (1907) and the establishment of a soup establishment (1908) for the regular supply of even poorer pupils with a warm lunch. As a result of his initiative, the agricultural elementary school in Neumarkt was founded in the school year 1920/21, and he was also responsible for it. He also became bookkeeper of the local community library and tried to fight illiteracy in socially disadvantaged groups by lending books free of charge.

Baier headed the Neumarkt branch of the Association of Germans in Bohemia for 22 years and was co-founder and chairman of the teachers' association in the Weseritz district for 23 years . He was a member of the Neumarkt city council for many years and directed the choir there from 1895 to 1932. In the neighboring town of Plan, he was the teachers' representative on the district school council for 17 years. In 1930 he retired and from then on concentrated on researching local and regional history for Neumarkt and the Weseritz district. In addition to numerous articles for daily newspapers and magazines, there were also some publications with the results of his local research, which appeared in small numbers. Wenzel Baier was one of the main authors of the magazine for Sudeten German areas of the historical Pilsner and Elbogen district, Unser Heimat, which was published from 1936 to 1943. In 1946, he was from Czechoslovakia at the age of 76 years sold . He settled in Ringsee, a village that was incorporated into Ingolstadt in 1962. Almost blind, he died there at the age of 87.

Works (selection)

  • University Music Director Hans Schneider. A picture of life. In: Deutsche Heimat , 1927.
  • Precipitation measurements of the 4th order station Neumarkt bei Weseritz in the years 1923-1929 . In: Pilsner Kreis , 1930.
  • The city arms of Neumarkt. Historical sketch . In: Pilsner Kreis , 1930.
  • Flood in Neumarkt (since the 16th century) . In: Pilsner Kreis , 1930.
  • A natural monument (Swiss stone pine of Inf. Alfred Wilfert).
  • Field names of Neumarkt and Hangendorf , 1930.
  • The abbot ridingberger spring near the city of Neumarkt .
  • Benedikt Brandl (Ed.): Abbot Ridingberger and the school in Neumarkt .
  • Name sequence after Peter Baier in Branischau No. 14, Teplá district (since the 17th century). In: Walter König-Bayer (Ed.): Communications from the Bayer, Baier etc. family , Reichenberg, 1931.
  • The elevation of Neumarkt to a city in 1437 . In: Our home. Journal for Sudeten German areas of the historical Pilsner and Elbogen district , 1937, issue 3–4, p. 27.
  • The unruly school assistant . In: Journal for Sudeten German areas of the historical Pilsner and Elbogen district , 1938, issue 5–6, pp. 54–55.
  • Ancestral heritage in German folk art . In: Journal for Sudeten German areas of the historical Pilsner and Elbogen district , 1941, issue 4, pp. 26–28; Issue 5, pp. 34-36 and Issue 6, pp. 41-43.

Honors

The district teachers' association Pohrlitz in Moravia honored Walter Baier in 1933 by including his curriculum vitae with a portrait and a detailed catalog raisonné under the heading Heimatforscher in the two-volume standard work Lebens- u. Working pictures of Sudeten German teachers .

literature

  • Life and Working pictures of Sudeten German teachers , Pohrlitz 1933, pp. 67–68.
  • Miroslav Soukup: Our home. Journal for Sudeten German areas of the historic Pilsner and Elbogen district (1936–1943) , Pilsen, 2016, p. 38.

Web links

  • Wenzel Baier on the website Heimatkreis Plan-Weseritz eV; accessed on December 2, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contemporary judgment of the State School Inspectorate in Prague.
  2. ↑ Miroslav Soukup: Our home. Journal for Sudeten German areas of the historic Pilsner and Elbogen district (1936–1943) , p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Baier, Wenzel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobrawod
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1956
Place of death Ingolstadt