Wilhelm Martin Dienstbach

Wilhelm Martin Dienstbach (born July 12, 1873 in Usingen ; † April 29, 1957 ibid) was a German teacher and local history researcher .

Life

He was born to the tannery owner Julius Martin Dienstbach and Margarete Bedenbender. He received his doctorate on July 22, 1905 at the University of Zurich with the dissertation Nassau-Saarbrücken a. Mortar; a contribution to the history of the Orange Secession dispute to Dr. phil. He married Ella Trass from Frankfurt on October 2, 1908.

Dienstbach worked as a high school principal in Frankfurt am Main . There he joined the Masonic Lodge Zur Einigkeit in 1924 . He was an honorary citizen of Usingen.

Wilhelm-Martin-Dienstbach-Strasse in Usingen is named after him.

Publications

Books

• The history lesson in the work school - a guide to its contemporary design (= leader in the work school, vol. 4) Frankfurt am M .: Moritz Diesterweg, 1922
• From chronicles of German cities: Images from city life in the Middle Ages. Kranz-Bücherei, H. 48/49 Frankfurt a. M.: Moritz Diesterweg, 1926
• Source book on German history. Two part: From the end of the Middle Ages to the end of the old German Empire. Edited by Wilhelm Dienstbach, Fritz Grebenstein, Otto Metzker. Frankfurt am M .: Moritz Diesterweg, 1927

Article in "Usinger Land"

Local history supplement to the Usinger Anzeiger

• The founder of our seminar, 1926-03 * The first Feldbergfest, 1926-05
• Female figures from the Usingen Castle, part I-III, 1932
• How the citizens of Usingen experienced the 30 Years War, 1935-09
• From coal burners, ironworks and nail smithy around Usingen, 1935-09
• Like us. wet. Heimat was connected to the German customs association, 1936-01
• The Usinger city arms, 1936-02
• About newer settlements in Usinger Land, part I + II, 1936-02
• Strange Pentecostal customs in Usinger Land, 1936-04
• The chaffinch song and its singer, 1936-06
• The legend of the Kranichsburg, 1936-07
• August Wilhelm and Richard Wagner, 1936-07
• From old documents ( Stockheim Court ), 1936-07
• From the Usinger Kreishaus, 1936-08
• An old wisdom from the Usinger Land, 1938-04
• Nassau-Orange and Usingen, 1938-05
• 124 years ago, Nassauer in Spain, 1938-06
• Our Usinger Land, 1939-01
• 125 years ago: like us. Old Nassau "Spaniards" returned home, 1939-05
• Also a Churchill (ancestor of Churchill and Walrad), 1940-02
• Known Usinger ad time d. Late Middle Ages, TI-III, 1940/41
• Something about the Usatal from an old encyclopedia, 1940-04
• All kinds of legal customs, 1940-04
• Over old paths in the woods and meadows of the Usinger Land, 1940-05
• Review: Life pictures of Nassau personalities, 1941-01
• A respectable man, 1949-01
• A parish honors its teacher (Nik.Fischer, 1812), 1950-01
• A Goethe monument in the Usatal, 1950-01
• From "Hohenastheimer" and other fruit wines, 1950-02
• August Wilhelm- the German Paganini, part I-III, 1950
• Christian Wirth - a man who did a lot for his homeland, 1950-07
• How Hundstal became Hunoldstal again, 1950-12
• Richard Wagner +, 1951-02
• A Review of Usingen's History, Parts I-II, 1951
• When we still had forest smiths, 1951-10
• The Usinger cityscape around 1500, parts I-IV, 1951/52
• The Hattsteiner Hof and its residents, part I + II, 1952
• Usingen and the Feldberg, 1952-10
• Roman brick in the church portal, 1952-1
• Bartholomäus Arnoldi Usingen, 1953-01
• A lion for the Usinger market fountain, 1953-03
• The Usinger Princely House, 1953-06
• From the time of Princess Carlotte Amalie, 1955-04
• An Orange woman led U. to bloom, 1955-05
• About the appointment of the master builder Stengel, 1955-05

Individual evidence

1. ↑ O.Renkhoff, Nassauische Biogr (1985, ZBZ TN 237: 39). 744
2. ↑ http://www.matrikel.uzh.ch/pages/525.htm
3. ↑ http://www.geschichtsverein-usingen.de/