Wilhelm Flegler

Wilhelm Flegler (born May 18, 1848 in Sprendlingen , † December 19, 1935 in Bensheim ) was a German Protestant theologian, teacher, historian and writer.

Life

Flegler attended grammar school in Darmstadt and studied Protestant theology at the Hessian Ludwig University . Since the winter semester 1865/55 he was a member of the Corps Hassia . In 1868 he was one of the three Giessen chairmen of the Kösener Congress . In 1869, at Flegler's request, the title “praiseworthy” for senior citizens 'convents and corps boys' convents became official. In 1892 Hassia awarded him honorary membership at their 50th foundation festival. In 1871 he became vicar in Framersheim , in 1874 in Worms and in 1877 at the seminary in Bensheim. Head teacher and high school professor there since 1878 , he retired in 1916. Flegler dealt intensively with the history of Hesse throughout his life . As an educational theorist, Flegler was one of the protagonists of corps students . Under the pseudonym Ben Quillan , he wrote many articles on corps history in the Academic monthly books . He was involved with Leonhard Zander in the Zander reform movement . His son Eugen Flegler , born in Bensheim in 1897 , was a professor of electrical engineering and later rector of RWTH Aachen University .

"Education means achieving a harmony of freedom and bondage, creating people who are both at the same time, independent, self-reliant personalities and yet also useful members of a whole, functional organs in the organism to which they are integrated."

- Wilhelm Flegler

Works

Matthias Claudius' Selected Works. With a life picture and with notes . Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, no year
Corps history of Hassia 1815-1860 , 1897
Rheinhessen in the Zopfzeit. Pictures from the state and the intellectual life of the northern Palatinate in the middle of the 18th century . Hessian Liberal Weekly (Darmstadt), 1912
The Gießer Kommersbuch and the Hessian First Chamber of the Estates , 2nd checked impression. Münchow, Giessen 1918
Alt-Giesser All sorts . Münchow, Giessen 1918
From the French period . Hessian Liberal Weekly (Darmstadt), 1914

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 51/551

personal data
SURNAME	Flegler, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian, teacher, historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jumpers
DATE OF DEATH	December 19, 1935
Place of death	Bensheim

[1] Kösener corps lists 1910, 51/551