Wilhelm Moufang
Wilhelm Moufang (born October 4, 1895 in Heidelberg , † January 21, 1989 in Neckargemünd ) was a German lawyer , art collector , author and astrologer .
family
Mainz ancestors
Wilhelm Moufang's important ancestors in Mainz include Friedrich Lennig , Adam Franz Lennig , Christoph Moufang and the religious historian and Indologist Edmund Georg Nicolaus Hardy . Wilhelm Moufang senior's sister, Wilhelmine Katharina Moufang, was married to Nicola Racke .
Parents and siblings
Wilhelm Moufang's parents were Wilhelm Moufang senior, who has a doctorate in law and has his own law firm (born January 6, 1852 in Mainz , † January 30, 1942 in Heidelberg ), and Julie Moufang, b. Stutzmann (born February 14, 1857 in Wiesbaden-Biebrich ; † September 29, 1938 in Heidelberg).
Eugenie Boyssel ∞ Stutzmann, the grandmother 
Marie Stutzmann, aunt of Wilhelm Moufang, sister of the mother
Wilhelm Moufang junior was the youngest son. His four older brothers were all born in Heidelberg and all died there: Nicola Moufang (* May 30, 1886 - April 11, 1967), Fritz Moufang (* October 5, 1887 - March 10, 1906), Eugen Moufang (* January 7, 1889 - April 15, 1967) and Franz Moufang (April 19, 1893 - May 29, 1984). Brother Fritz died of acute appendicitis at the age of 19 .
A great-nephew of Wilhelm Moufang is David Moufang .
marriage
Wilhelm Moufang was married to the painter Minnie Moufang geb. Andreä (born May 29, 1913 in Darmstadt ; † August 19, 2003 in Sandhausen ). She had her daughter Barbara Kempe geb. Schmehl (born September 6, 1941 in Darmstadt, † September 13, 1999 in Mannheim ) brought into the marriage.
Career
School time, military service and studies
Wilhelm Moufang - called "Schwib" by his family - attended the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Heidelberg . In 1914 he passed his Abitur at this ancient language grammar school, like his four older brothers before.
Immediately after the outbreak of the First World War , on August 1, 1914, Moufang volunteered to take up arms and joined the 1st Badischer Leib-Dragoons Regiment No. 20 in Karlsruhe . The regiment's volunteers were transported to the Western Front in so-called subsidy trucks. Here Wilhelm Moufang served as a cavalryman until he was wounded. Moufang returned home as a severely disabled person, decorated with the Order of the Zähringer Lion , First Class Knight.
After Wilhelm Moufang had recovered from his war verses currency, he studied his brothers, his father's request accordingly jurisprudence . He studied at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he spent this time in the house of his aunt Anna Maria Probst, b. Moufang, a sister of his father Wilhelm Moufang senior, lived. and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He completed his studies with both exams. After his dissertation on cooperative education in the German book trade (1923), the law faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg awarded him a doctorate. During his studies in Freiburg he came into contact with parapsychology .
Munich and Ticino
After receiving his doctorate, Moufang went back to Munich and worked in the book and art trade. Studying law had only been a compulsory exercise for him. His passion belonged to the avant-garde in the arts: in the fine arts, especially German expressionism , in literature and in the theater. He was interested in prose and poetry , in valuable books, incunabula and autographs , but also in parapsychology and astrology. He also dealt with genealogy , including the genealogy of his own family.
During his time in Munich, he sought relationships with writers and artists. He made formative contacts with the artist circle around Gabriele Münter . He spent most of the time between the wars in Ticino , interrupted by stays in Berlin and Heidelberg. In Ascona he was in contact with Marianne von Werefkin .
As a severely disabled person in the First World War, Moufang did not receive a presentation order for use in the Second World War . During the Second World War, too, he stayed mainly in Ticino.
After the Second World War
Wilhelm Moufang spent the years after the Second World War in Heidelberg. During his father's lifetime he had his main residence in the parental apartment in which his father had lived after the death of his wife in 1938 until his death in 1942. It was in this apartment that Wilhelm Moufang started his now famous Jours fixes .
Final rest
Wilhelm Moufang died in 1989 as the last of the Moufang brothers at the age of 93. He found his final resting place in a family grave in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery . The listed grave complex is on the so-called Professorenweg , in the row of professors (Department D). His wife Minnie and her daughter from a previous marriage were also buried here.
For over 150 years, members of the Moufang family have found their final resting place in this tomb (see pictures below). The great-grandfather Pierre Boyssel (1776–1861) from Moscow, born in Toulouse , the grandparents Friedrich Stutzmann (1799–1881) ∞ Eugenie Boyssel (1825–1893) and the aunt Marie Stutzmann (1850–1907) rest here from the maternal ancestral side .
Wilhelm Moufang's parents and his brothers Nicola and Fritz rest in another family grave in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof, which is also in the row of professors (picture on the right).
Gravestone for Wilhelm and Minnie Moufang
Gravestone for Wilhelm and Minnie Moufang
Tomb for the great-grandfather Pierre Boyssel
Grave of grandparents Friedrich ∞ Eugenie Stutzmann
Tomb for Marie Stutzmann, mother's sister
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Fonts (selection)
- The current situation of the German book industry . J. Schweizer Verl., Munich 1921
- More beautiful and healthier . Hesse & Becker Verl., Leipzig 1939
- Alexey von Jawlensky . Müller-Druck, Ilvesheim 1950
- Mystery of dreams . Swiss printing u. Publishing house, Zurich 1953
- Magicians, Powers and Mysteries . Keyser, Heidelberg 1954
- Il libro dei misteri e delle potenze ignote . Hoepli, Milano 1957
- El libro de los misterios y de las potencias ocultas . De Caralt, Barcelona 1969
Web links
- Wilhelm Moufang at Astro Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edmund Hardy in Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ BIORAB Empire online. Alphabet: Racke, Josef Adolf Nicola Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Heidelberg City Archives, Family Association Feuerlein, Stamm Conradi http://familienverband-feuerlein.de/
- ↑ In 1910 Willy Staniewicz was commissioned by the Prussian Army Administration to develop a uniform subsidy truck , which he completed in 1912. In 1913, this type 1913 (ALZ 1913) army truck became a binding model for all manufacturers who built subsidy trucks . See also Heinrich Büssing and autobiographical notes by Wilhelm Moufang
- ↑ The battles of the cavalry on the western front were fought by the cavalrymen armed mainly with lances , autobiographical notes Wilhelm Moufang.
- ^ Wilhelm Moufang in the Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Baden , see Regional Court Heidelberg, No. 14
- ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of October 5, 1965, features: Wilhelm Moufang 70 years old
- ^ Obituary on the occasion of the death of Wilhelm Moufang junior, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Feuilleton, February 2, 1989, ZGS 2/155.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moufang, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moufang, (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1989 |
| Place of death | Neckargemünd |