Wilhelm Brepohl (home nurse)
Wilhelm Brepohl (born August 12, 1913 in Wietersheim near Minden ; † January 7, 2002 in Petershagen ) was a district home nurse in the Minden district and is considered the father of the Westphalian Mühlenstrasse in the East Westphalian district of Minden-Lübbecke .
Life
Brepohl was born in Wietersheim near Minden in 1913. He graduated from the Ratsgymnasium and studied in Dortmund . He became a primary school teacher and later a principal and was one of the first to look after the old windmills and water mills in his home district in the 1960s . He recognized that they had to be preserved as technical monuments for posterity and implemented the various mill maintenance programs at the district level. His aim was to restore the mills as witnesses to the country's, economic and social history. In order to make the public aware of this situation, he co-founded the Westphalian Mühlenstraße and was chairman of the mill association of the then Minden district from 1978 to 1987. He is also one of the founding initiators of the German Society for Milling Customers and Mill Maintenance . From 1962 to 1983 he was a district home nurse. In 1983 he was for his work with the Federal Cross of Merit awarded in 1987 first with the Federal Cross of Merit class. In 1979 he received the German Prize for Monument Protection .
His son Wilm Brepohl is also historically active.
Bibliography (selection)
- Wilhelm Brepohl, Horst Wöbbeking: The Westphalian Mühlenstraße in the Minden-Lübbecke district. Schulbuchring Kreis Minden-Lübbecke, Rahden 1986, ISBN 3-925858-04-0 .
- Wilhelm Brepohl: Country Castle Hüffe. In: Westfälischer Heimatbund , Westphalian Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Westfälische Kunststätten . Issue 11. Printing and publishing house W. Bitter, Münster 1980, ISSN 0930-3952 .
literature
- Gundolf Scheweling: Mühlenstrasse father died. In: The millstone. Issue 1, 2002, p. 14,
- An Weser and Wiehen: Contributions to the history and culture of a landscape: Festschrift for Wilhelm Brepohl, Mindener Geschichtsverein, 1983.
Individual evidence
- ↑ History: The Mill Association in the Minden-Lübbecke district. Homepage of the mill association in the Minden-Lübbecke district
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brepohl, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and district home nurse in the Minden district |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wietersheim near Minden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2002 |
| Place of death | Petershagen |