Wilhelm Stier (pedagogue)

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Wilhelm August Hermann Stier (born June 19, 1893 in Düchelsdorf , † August 30, 1987 in Lübeck ) was a German educator and local researcher .

Life

Wilhelm Stier was a son of the country gendarme Friedrich Stier and his wife Auguste geb. Petrol. His place of birth Düchelsdorf was an exclave of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck until 1937 . After his father was transferred to Lübeck Customs, he grew up in Lübeck-St. Lorenz up. From 1897 to 1907 he attended the St. Lorenz Boys 'Middle School and then the Lübeck teachers' college . Here he passed the examination as a primary school teacher in 1913. After a probationary period in Travemünde he became civil servant in early 1914.

After the outbreak of the First World War he served as a war volunteer. He experienced the winter battle in Masuria and rose to lieutenant . He was released in the spring of 1918 as a result of three wounds. After resuming his teaching activities, he trained as a secondary school teacher at the teachers' seminar. In 1925 he got a job as a middle school teacher at his former school, the St. Lorenz Boys Middle School on Marquardplatz.

During the Second World War he was a captain in the reserve company commander in the Baltic States . On his 50th birthday in 1943 he was released to Lübeck. At the end of the war, he was one of the few teachers in Lübeck who had never joined the NSDAP . The British military administration then appointed him to the school board . He organized the resumption of school operations in Lübeck and the school meals . On April 1, 1947, he returned to the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt School as rector, retaining the title of school councilor. In 1959 he retired.

Stier has been involved in the homeland protection movement (monument preservation and nature and landscape protection) since his time at the teacher training college . With Wilhelm Ohnesorge , he advocated placing the Dummersdorfer Ufer under protection as early as the 1920s . With his numerous publications he shaped the public discussion and trained generations of city guides. In the Association for Heimatschutz he was secretary from 1927 and chairman from 1946 until the association was dissolved on December 31, 1978. Between 1926 and 1936, he published a total of 20 Lübeck Heimathefte and the Lübeck Heimatblätter for the association . Later it was the booklets of the Lübecker Führer series, which were distributed in numerous editions . His hike through old Lübeck , first published in 1953, was still in its 17th edition in 1989. Werner Neugebauer stated in his obituary: "By the way, there is hardly a question of the city's history that he has not commented on."

Since September 1918 he was with the teacher Henriette, geb. Hannemann († 1970) married. The couple had a son, who died in World War II in 1944, and two daughters.

His estate is kept in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck ; the inventory is made accessible by a finding aid.

Awards

Fonts

  • Low German Christmas: in 32 images from medieval altars; with a Low German Bible text from 1494. Lübeck: Westphal 1935
  • Lübeck guide
    • 1: A hike through old Lübeck. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1953 - 17th edition 1989
    • 2: St. Mary. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1953 - 12th edition 1979
    • 3: Travemünde. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1953
    • 5: The town hall. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1959
    • 7: The Schiffergesellschaft. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1965
  • 800 years of Lübeck in map sheets. Lübeck 1959 (= communications from the Geographical Society in Lübeck ZDB -ID 206036-X 49)
  • Lübeck: town houses and pens. Hamburg: Landesbildstelle 1962
  • Lübeck: Church art in the St. Annen Museum. Hamburg: State Image Office 1962
  • Lübeck: 41 plates by Wilhelm Castelli . Bayreuth: Black [approx. 1965] (= Schwarz picture books)
  • with Heinz Schwensfeger: Knowing and loving Lübeck: 14 walks for friends and guests of the old Hanseatic city. Lübeck: Coleman 1967
  • Gerhard Meyer (Ed.): Lübeck 1945: Diary extracts from Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, overview from Gerhard Meyer and memories from Wilhelm Stier. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1986 ISBN 3-7950-3000-5 (= publications of the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Office for Culture ZDB -ID 261823-0 23)

literature

  • Werner Neugebauer : Schulrat a. D. Wilhelm Stier June 19, 1893 - August 30, 1987. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 68 (1988), pp. 233–232 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography mainly based on Neugebauer (lit.)
  2. ↑ Later Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Realschule , then part of the Bernd-Notke-Schule , today the Julius-Leber-Schule .
  3. ↑ See his memories in Gerhard Meyer (ed.): Lübeck 1945: Diary extracts from Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, overview from Gerhard Meyer and memories from Wilhelm Stier. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1986 ISBN 3-7950-3000-5 (= publications of the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Office for Culture ZDB -ID 261823-0 23)
  4. ↑ Entry in the estate database, accessed on April 2, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Bull, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stier, Wilhelm August Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Düchelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1987
Place of death Lübeck