Wilhelm Dittgen

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Willi Dittgen (1984)

Wilhelm Dittgen (born November 18, 1912 in Düsseldorf ; † March 21, 1997 in Dinslaken ) was a German cultural office director, adult education center director and local researcher.

Life

"Willi" Dittgen spent his school days in Dinslaken and worked from 1938 to 1939 as a local editor for the "National-Zeitung" in Dorsten . In 1945, he was an American prisoner of war with teaching and re-education functions under the American " re-education " program in a prison camp for German teenagers at Attichy used. In 1946, Dinslaken's first post-war mayor and district administrator, Josef Zorn, his former German teacher at the grammar school, commissioned him to develop a new cultural life in the Dinslaken district . As head of the culture and press office, he organized concerts and theater performances, gave the decisive impetus for the development of the local history museum and the adult education center, which he took over. He was co-founder of the madrigal choir and chamber orchestra.

From 1950 to 1996, Dittgen assumed the role of managing director of the Dinslaken Home Care Association. Dittgen is the author of numerous books on local history. As an editor he designed 30 volumes of local calendars and yearbooks for the Dinslaken district and most recently for the Wesel district . His special concern was the preservation of the architectural and art monuments in the Dinslaken district. His son is the political scientist Herbert Dittgen . On the occasion of the 100th birthday, Hans-Hermann Bison, a companion of the local history researcher, recalled his local history work in his speech. This speech was also the starting point for a contribution in the Wesel district's 2017 yearbook about Dittgen.

Awards

Fonts

  • The Attichy children's cage. An experience report, Rheinberg, M. Schiffer 1957
  • Moving time. The Dinslaken district in the years 1909–1959. Published by the district of Dinslaken on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Dinslaken 1959
  • Art on the Lower Rhine. A guide to the cultural and art sites of the lower Lower Rhine, Duisburg, Karl Lange 1965
  • The Hüchtenbrucks and the Gröninger. The Hünxer Epitaph, a work by Joh. Wilh. Gröninger, In: Home calendar for the Dinslaken district 1967, pp. 64–70.
  • Between the wars: 1919–1939. Troubled time between Ruhr and Lippe, ed. from the Association for Home Care “Land Dinslaken”, Dinslaken 1977
  • The parish church of Saint Vincentius in Dinslaken, Neuss, Society for Book Printing 1981 (Rheinische Kunststätten; 257)
  • Municipality of Hünxe an der Lippe, Neuss, Neuss printing and publishing house 1983 (Rheinische Kunststätten; 279)
  • The transition: the end of the Second World War in Dinslaken and the surrounding area, Dinslaken, Association for Homeland Care “Land Dinslaken”, 1983
  • Stations. 550 years of the parish of St. Vincentius Dinslaken, Dinslaken 1986
  • Betty Tendering and the green Heinrich. House Ahr in the history of literature. Yearbook of the Wesel district, 11/1990 (1989), pp. 13-20
  • Jefferson's Rhine tour, or, The economic four-poster bed: a travel diary of the later President of the United States Thomas Jefferson from 1788, on the eve of the French Revolution, with advice and hints for his compatriots, translated and commented by Willi Dittgen, Duisburg, Mercator-Verlag 1991
  • The after-fame of the great Friedrich Althoff, in: Jahrbuch des Kreis Wesel, 15/1994 (1993), pp. 10-14

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of holders of the Federal Order of Merit (Federal President's Office)
personal data
SURNAME Dittgen, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dittgen, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1997
Place of death Dinslaken