Willi Scheu

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60 Pf - special stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost (1988) for "150 years of Mainz Carneval" with "Bajazz and lantern"

Willi Scheu (born December 24, 1910 in Gonsenheim ; † April 13, 1998 ibid) was a German dentist and well-known Mainz fast night .

Life

Scheu studied dentistry in Giessen . During his studies in 1931 he became a member of the Corps Hassia, which was then based in Gießen and since 1949 in Mainz . After completing his doctorate , he first settled in Mainz as an independent dentist , but then moved to Wiesbaden . There he was one of the founding members of the Sonnenberg Heimatverein in 1951 .

Scheu was a member of the Mainz Carneval Association (MCV). He became known in the post-war period as a performer of Bajazz with the lantern , a Bajazzo figure that quickly became a symbol of the Mainz Carnival . In 1963 he became the first recipient of the Narrenbrunnen price of Ettlingen excellent. The weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT described Scheu in his role as a sharp-tongued politicizing Bajazz as the most pronounced figure in the joint meeting Mainz, which was put together especially for ARD television, Mainz remains as it sings and laughs . The German Trade Union Confederation criticized Scheus' anti-union statements as "swindling". In 1998, Der Spiegel wrote in its obituary: "The joke of the hand-crafted speaker was one of the dullest things organized German humor can bring about."

Works

  • The dentist as an expert in the accident insurance under the Reich law , Gelnhausen 1936
  • The Mainz Bajazz speaks - The collected lectures of the "Mainz Bajazz" from the meetings of the Mainz Carneval Association (MCV) , Mainz 1961

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 66 , 1249
  2. ^ History of the Sonnenberg Heimatverein
  3. ^ List of award winners ( Memento from April 12, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Article Carnival in the Crisis , in: Die Zeit, No. 49 of December 8, 1967 digitized
  5. ↑ Died: Willi Scheu . Der Spiegel 17/1998. April 20, 1998. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Shy, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist and fast night from Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Gonsenheim
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1998
Place of death Gonsenheim