Wilhelm Wehrhahn

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Wilhelm Wehrhahn (born February 28, 1857 in Göttingen , † January 23, 1926 in Hanover ) was a German secondary school teacher, school principal and botanist , field name collector and non-fiction author as well as local researcher and photographer .

Life

In the public school at the little field in the northern city taught Wehrhahn more than two decades
Corner house at Im Moore 26 (today house number 33 ) at the corner of Asternstraße , early 20th century residence of Wilhelm Wehrhahn;
Postcard from EA Fischer, around 1905
The Tilly beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Tortuosa') near Raden in the Süntel , Auetal, Schaumburg district ; Wehrhahn's photo was first published in Möller's Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung in 1902
Title page Hanover in words and pictures , published in 1910 by the Association for Tourism in Hanover

The City School Board Dr. phil. Wilhelm Wehrhahn joined the founding days of the German Empire in 1885. He joined the school service of the city of Hanover and initially worked at the school at Goseriede and at the one in Hagenstrasse .

From 1898 until his retirement he worked at the community school Am Kleinen Felde in Hanover, where he took over the school management after the death of the director Gustav Feddeler in 1920.

However, at the time of the German Empire , the educationalist Wilhelm Wehrhahn, who lived in Im Moore 26 II in Hanover in 1908 , was involved as a photographer with numerous photographs in the illustrations in Adolf Kiepert's 1910 published and from the Association for the Promotion of Tourism in Hanover published work Hannover in words and pictures .

In 1912 and 1913 the field name collector was involved as a member of the NAfH field name commission. According to the Natural History Society of Hanover , Wehrhahn was also a member of the Lower Saxony Heimatbund and a member of the Hanoverian Provincial Committee for Natural Monument Preservation based in Hanover.

Fonts

  • Flora of the deciduous and liverworts for the area around the city of Hanover. A geographic-floristic local history for the area. With 9 images of vegetation [plates] based on photographs by the author , 126 pages, Hanover: CV Engelhard & Co., 1921; contents
  • The landscape around Hanover and its formation. A natural history local lore on a geological basis , Hanover: CV Engelhard & Co .;
    • Part 1: 1924-1925 , 142 partly illustrated pages (plates);
    • Part 2: Hikes and trips in the Weser Uplands , 102 pages, some with pictures

Exemplary photographs

In Oswald Reissert : The Weserbergland and the Teutoburg Forest from the series “Monographs on Geography”. Velhagen and Klasing. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 2nd unaltered edition, 1925 (first edition 1909), there are, for example, the following photographs from Wehrhahn:

literature

  • Gerhard Wagenitz : Göttingen biologists 1737 - 1945. A biographical-bibliographical list ... (= Göttinger Universitätsschriften , Series C: Catalogs , Vol. 2), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1988, ISBN 978-3-525-35876-4 and ISBN 3-525-35876-8 , p. 192
  • Ulrich Scheuermann : Field name collection and field name research in Lower Saxony (= Göttingen research on regional history ; Vol. 20), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89534-890-7 , p. 409
  • Sebastian Dittrich: The flora of the Deister-Süntel area , part 1: On the history of research into regional flora and vegetation . In: The Söltjer. Forays through Bad Münder and the surrounding area , ed. from the Bad Münder local group of the Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV, Bad Münder, 2010

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Wehrhahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c o.V. : Wehrhahn, Wilhelm in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of February 6, 2012, last accessed on March 2, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d o. V .: Wilhelm Wehrhahn † , in: Annual report of the Natural History Society of Hanover , Hanover, ISSN 0723-6794, p. V ff .; Preview over google books
  3. ^ Report of the Natural History Society of Hanover , Volumes 55–59, p. 24; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ ibid., Passim
  5. ^ Hugo Wilhelm Conwentz (Ed.): Contributions to the care of natural monuments , Volume 5, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1916, p. 79; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Wehrhahn, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, botanist, field name collector, local researcher and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1926
Place of death Hanover