Wilhelm Thies (writer)

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Wilhelm Thies (born December 28, 1854 in Sprakensehl , † August 2, 1926 in Hanover ) was a German post office clerk with the title Oberpostsekretär as well as a writer , poet and translator. He particularly tried to research the Lower Saxon peasantry .

Fonts

  • The Hanoverian farmer. The development of the Hanoverian peasantry from the Saxon battles to the present , 187 pages, picture decorations by Mali Kronacher , Hanover: CV Engelhard & Co., 1923
  • The heather wilderness. My home , Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1925
  • What rustles the village linden. Chats from popular life , with a foreword by Wilhelm Peßler , Bad Pyrmont: Friedrich Gersbach, 1926
  • People in the Binnenheide. Serious and cheerful pictures from my homeland , Hanover, Rundestr. 11/12: Verlag Dr. Johannes Rathje, 1928

Archival material

Archival material from and about Wilhelm Thies can be found, for example

  • as an estate in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hannover location) for the period from 1905 to 1955 with the content "Thies family history [from 1724], essays, documents for the publication of his works, book reviews, manuscripts of essays, compilation of literary products by various writers and poets, Newspaper articles, documents on the life story of his son, the reciter Georg Thies ... "

Thieshof

The Thieshof street, which was laid out in 1968 in the Hanoverian district of Bothfeld east of Weidkampsheide, has since been named in honor of the senior postal secretary who tried to research the Lower Saxony peasantry.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Thieshof , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 243
  2. ↑ Compare the information and cross-references from the German National Library (DNB)
  3. ↑ a b Compare the information in the central database of bequests from the German Federal Archives
personal data
SURNAME Thies, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German postal worker, senior postal secretary, writer, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Sprakensehl
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1926
Place of death Hanover