Wilhelm Winterer

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Wilhelm Winterer (born September 21, 1879 in Konstanz , † June 29, 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German colonial officer and Africa writer.

Life

Wilhelm Winterer was one of the four sons of Freiburg Mayor Otto Winterer and his wife Maria (née Gartenhauser). In 1898 he passed his Abitur examination at the Berthold-Gymnasium Freiburg . He joined the 5th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 113 and began an officer career. From 1907 to 1913 he served as a lieutenant in the Schutztruppe for German East Africa . Since he did not travel to East Africa until July 1907, he was hardly involved in the suppression of the Maji Maji uprising . He was initially assigned to the 3rd Company of the Schutztruppe for German East Africa and stationed in Lindi in what is now Tanzania . He was later transferred to the military post of the 7th Company, Kifumbiro, in the Bukoba residence on Lake Victoria .

During a visit to his homeland in 1910, Winterer brought numerous collector's items from East Africa, which he donated to the Freiburg Ethnographic Museum / Adelhauser Museum . These included antlers, crocodile and ostrich eggs, snakes in alcohol, a collection of beetles, and a range of weapons, clothing, household appliances, and tobacco pipes. He later donated two Watussi cattle horns mounted on signs to the museum. In his apartment he had another extensive collection of memorabilia from Africa, which was destroyed on November 27, 1944 during the devastating bomb attack on Freiburg im Breisgau ( Operation Tigerfish ).

Gravestone in the main cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau

Back in Germany, he studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1915 at the Faculty of Philosophy with a dissertation on the development and utilization of jumps and lines on the southern Black forest ... . In 1915 he was already involved as a captain on the Western Front in Upper Alsace and in 1917/18 in the fighting between the Maas and Moselle. After the First World War , Winterer withdrew into private life and devoted himself to his hobby, playing chess, as well as maintaining his colonial memories.

Winterer was on the board of the Freiburg chess club for a long time and was considered an excellent player. At a simultaneous tournament in Freiburg in 1937, he scored the only victory against grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow .

From 1923 to 1942 he ran the Afrika-Verlag in Freiburg in which his own book, Werben und Die. A dream from German East Africa , was published. In 1933 Winterer took part in the Freiburg naval and colonial exhibition, as well as in the 1935 colonial exhibition.

During the Second World War he took part in the French campaign , the Balkan campaign and the Russian campaign until 1944 , at the end of which he assumed the rank of colonel.

Works

  • Advertise and Die - A Dream from German - East Africa , Freiburg i.Br. 1923
  • On the buffalo and elephant hunt in East Africa. In: Josef Viera (ed.): Exotic hunting adventures from all over the world. Enßlin & Laiblins Verlagbuchhandlung Reutlingen 1927
  • The hanged man, serialized novel. In: Jambo, August 1931, pp. 211ff. and September 1931, pp. 259ff.
  • A voyage of discovery with adventure, serial novel. In: Jambo, Jg. 1933, pp. 51-61, 83-91 and 113-115.
  • From the German colonial history , Freiburger Zeitung of June 16, 1935 (Part I) and Freiburger Zeitung of June 16, 1935 (Part II).
  • The creation and utilization of the jumps and lines on the southern Black Forest, with special consideration of the hollow trench . In: Journal of the Society for the Promotion of History, Antiquity and Folklore of Freiburg, the Breisgau and the Adjacent Landscapes , 31st year (1916) Digitized version of the Freiburg University Library

literature

  • Renate Lissem-Breinlinger: On the biography of Dr. Otto Winterer (1846–1915). In: Schau-ins-Land: Annual issue of the Breisgau history association Schauinsland, issue 111.1992, pp. 129–140 digitized

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edgar Dürrenberger: Freiburg and Africa; Part II: Wilhelm Winterer, Richard Kuenzer and Georg Nathan on www.freiburg-postkolonial.de; accessed on October 26, 2018
  2. ^ Edgar Dürrenberger: Freiburg and Africa; Part II: Wilhelm Winterer, Richard Kuenzer and Georg Nathan on www.freiburg-postkolonial.de; accessed on October 26, 2018
  3. ^ Edgar Dürrenberger: Freiburg and Africa; Part II: Wilhelm Winterer, Richard Kuenzer and Georg Nathan on www.freiburg-postkolonial.de; accessed on October 26, 2018
  4. ↑ see Freiburger Zeitung October 3, 1937, p. 16
  5. ↑ see Freiburger Zeitung June 16, 1935, p. 6
  6. ↑ ZDB -ID 985010-7
personal data
SURNAME Winterer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1969
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau