Wilhelm Mehl

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Wilhelm Mehl (born May 8, 1893 in Haldensleben ; † May 7, 1940 in Warthegau ) was a German teacher and local researcher .

Life

Wilhelm Mehl took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1916 and was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class. With the rank of lieutenant he came into British captivity .

Mehl had been employed at the Pestalozzi School in Tangermünde since 1923 . In 1926 he founded the Tangermünde Museum Association to promote local history in Tangermünde and the surrounding area , the forerunner of today's Tangermünde City History Museum . In addition to his work as a museum director, he wrote articles for the Tangermünder Anzeiger. For the millennium of Tangermünde in 1933, he organized an open-air festival “'The Swedes are coming!' The equestrian game during the millennium ”. He became the archivist of the Tangermünde-Stadt care district and was responsible for nature conservation in the Stendal district .

Mehl's life was concerned with the history and development of Tangermünde. He wrote numerous publications on this.

At the beginning of the Second World War he was involved in the invasion of Poland . At the beginning of May 1940 he died of a heart attack with the rank of first lieutenant in Poland .

His name is immortalized on a memorial column for the fallen in Tangermünde's municipal cemetery.

Publications (selection)

  • among others with Fritz Bothe, Luise Mewis : 1000 years Tangermünde. Home pictures from the millennial city of Tangermünde. Magistrate of the City of Tangermünde (no year, approx. 1940)
  • Brief history of the city of Tangermünde - with history tables. C. Lutzack, Tangermünde 1933 (2nd edition); 1935 (3rd edition).
  • Chronicle of the city of Tangermünde. Then and now. FW Willmann, Magdeburg 1933. Reprint: Beckerdruck, Tangermünde 1993
  • Hiking book through the old Tangermünde and its history. Friedrich Becker and Son, Tangermünde 1938, 2nd revised edition 1955.
  • The Tangermünder city model. In: Mitteldeutsche Volkheit. Burg 1938. Volume 5, issue 6/7, pp. 118–119.
  • Tangermünde, district of Stendal. In: German city book . Vol. 2, Stuttgart 1941, pp. 701 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tangermünde: 1000 years of history . Verlag Janos Stekovics, 2008, p. 120 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b The German special school . 1940, ZDB -ID 500557-7 , p. 302 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Tangermünde: 1000 years of history . Verlag Janos Stekovics, 2008, p. 484 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
  4. ^ Berlin Institute for Newspaper Science: Handbook of the German daily press . Armanen-Verlag, 1937, p. 182 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Tangermünde: 1000 years of history . Verlag Janos Stekovics, 2008, p. 121 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Saxony and Anhalt . A. Hopfer., 1940, p. 373 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
  7. ↑ The German Special School . 1940, ZDB -ID 500557-7 , p. 281 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
  8. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring : Statistical-topographical description of the entire Mark Brandenburg . W. de Gruyter , Berlin, 1968, p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Flour, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Haldensleben
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1940