Wilhelm Tobien

Wilhelm Tobien

Wilhelm Tobien (born January 26, 1837 in Puschdorf / East Prussia ; † September 10, 1911 in Schwelm ) was a German teacher, regional historian and author.

Life

Tobien was the son of a pastor and, according to his father's will, was to become a Protestant clergyman himself. He attended high school in Königsberg , where he also studied theology . Only after his father's death in 1857 did he turn more to philosophy and history . In order to earn a living he gave private lessons and for a short time also managed his father's former parish. In 1858 he became a tutor. He passed his first theological exam a year later. After that he began to distance himself more and more from the spiritual career before he ended this path in 1861. He continued to be a tutor and pursued philological and historical studies. He started school.

From 1863 he temporarily held the third teaching position at the community school in Lüdenscheid . A year later he passed the examination for the higher teaching post. From 1869 he was a senior teacher in Schwelm. There he was a member of the local Masonic lodge "Zum Westphalian Lion." In 1874 he participated in the establishment of an educational association and became its chairman. He also founded the Schwelmer Volksbibliothek and was its librarian until 1887. This was done from an anti-social democratic standpoint. As a founding member and first chairman of the Schwelm Local History Association from 1890, he conducted extensive research on the city's history. In the same function, he was instrumental in setting up a local history museum in Schwelm (today in Haus Martfeld ). In 1891 he became an honorary citizen of the city and a year later director of the local Progymnasium. He retired in 1904.

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Tobien wrote numerous mostly historical writings on the history of Schwelm, the county of Mark and Westphalia . After the death of Johann Suibert Seibertz , he continued his regional and legal history of the Duchy of Westphalia . He also wrote some history games and statements on current events.

Works (selection)

• Memories from the past of Westphalia. Illustrated from sources and recent research . Dept. 1. Vol. 1. Elberfeld: Volkmann 1869–1873.
• Outline of the history of Westphalia with special consideration of the history of the county of Mark. Edited for school use and for self-teaching by more mature Westphalian youth . Elberfeld: Volkmann 1870.
• Lecture on the cooperation of the educational associations in the fight against social democracy, given at the general assembly of the narrower association of Reinisch-Westphalian educational associations in Hagen on October 13, 1878 . Hagen: Butz 1878.
• Documented church history from Schwelm to the 17th century. According to the reports of contemporaries in the archive of the Lutheran Church in Schwelm . Schwelm: Joke 1889.
• Pictures from the history of Schwelm. According to the records in the archives. Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the city privileges of Schwelm . Schwelm: Scherz 1890. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• 300th anniversary celebration of the city of Schwelm on June 14th, 15th and 16th, 1890. Prologue and connecting text to the Dr. T. Hielscher presented living pictures from the history of Schwelm . Schwelm: Voswinkel 1890.
• To commemorate the centenary celebration of the Lodge to the Westphalian Lion in Schwelm on April 25, 1892 . Schwelm: Joke 1892
• State and legal history of the Duchy of Westphalia by Dr. Johann Suitbert Seibertz. Continued after the author's death . Vol. 4.1. Arnsberg: Knight 1875.

Web links

• Wilhelm Tobien in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors