Wilhelm Lahn

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Wilhelm Lahn (born January 29, 1832 in Zootzen , today Fürstenberg / Havel ; † September 26, 1907 in Hohen Neuendorf ; actually Friedrich Wilhelm Heynrich Lahn ) was a Brandenburg teacher and poet.

Memorial plaque on Wilhelm Lahn's house in Stolpe-Dorf

Life

Lahn was born as one of four sons of Heinrich Lahn and Marie Elisabeth Jaap in Zootzen near Fürstenberg / Havel . As a young man he already worked as a teacher and cantor in Sieversdorf near Neustadt an der Dosse and in Kartzow near Potsdam . From January 8, 1852 to 1906 he was a teacher and cantor in Stolpe in the Niederbarnim district .

In addition to his teaching activities, he worked as an editor for the Prussian school newspaper . He was also on the board of the teachers' association of the Province of Brandenburg . In his capacity as chairman of the Brandenburg teachers 'union, he made it his business, among other things, to improve the care of teachers' widows.

Lahn died of cardiac paralysis and was buried in the village cemetery in Stolpe-Dorf.

Literary works

  • Casual poems
  • The vernacular in the Mark Brandenburg
  • The honey
  • Once again I see everything again: memories of a seventy-five year old (autobiography), Potsdam 1906
  • Co-author of a reader for Brandenburg students

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