Willy Winkler
Willy Winkler (born November 30, 1904 in Düben ; † June 21, 1986 in Bad Düben ) was a master printer , local researcher and, as a later museum director, was instrumental in founding the "Landscape Museum of the Düben Heath" at Düben Castle .
Life
On November 30, 1904, Willy Winkler was born on Leipziger Strasse in the city of Düben, today's Bad Düben. He attended the city school next to the Düben city church and began an apprenticeship as a book printer in the Jacob printing house in 1919 . He later took courses in typewriter, shorthand, foreign languages and rhetoric. After the usual years of wandering at the time , Willy Winkler acquired the title of " master book printer " in 1929 and also in 1929 bought Paul Streubel's printing works, which had been in existence since 1903 , including the associated stationery shop in Bad Dübener Kirchstrasse 2. Willy Winkler ran both businesses up to his He was 77 years old and in 1981 passed the print shop to his then 38-year-old daughter Anne-Gret Hofmann and the stationery business to his other daughter. Both are still owned by the family today; the print shop is still run by his daughter Anne-Gret Hofmann, his granddaughter Gudrun Boeckenhauer and her husband Wilmten Boeckenhauer and is now the smallest print shop in Northern Saxony . He campaigned for the establishment of a landscape museum in Düben Castle, achieved this goal when it was completed in 1953 and became its museum director. Willy Winkler died on June 21, 1986 in his hometown of Bad Düben.
Working as a local researcher
Since the founding of the "Dübener Heide" association, he has worked actively in the association, and was later also its managing director. As a hiking guide, he was significantly involved in the first marking of hiking trails in the Dübener Heide . He was also involved in the renovation of the Gustav-Adolf-Stone at the cemetery, in the exhibition on the Wars of Liberation in 1813 and, since 1937, in the construction of the Blücherstein (to commemorate the year 1813). In 1956 the Blücherstein was inaugurated on the occasion of the Park and Heimatfest.
Together with his friend, the town bandmaster and music teacher Otto Goitzsch, and others, he founded the local section of the Kulturbund after the end of the war in 1945. He achieved his dream of a museum for Bad Düben after negotiations with the state government of Saxony-Anhalt. On August 1, 1951, Düben Castle was handed over to be converted into a landscape museum. On March 30, 1952, the castle tower was opened to the public as "Lug ins Land" and 2,658 people climbed the castle tower in the first seven weeks. Many exhibitions still had to be shown in the library in the city center. Although the space there was very cramped, 2,318 visitors came within 12 days to see the exhibition The brown coal in the home . Almost 2,700 visitors saw the second exhibition, entitled 400 Years of Alum Work. Under the leadership of Willy Winkler, many people from Bad Düben, citizens from neighboring towns and comrades from the volunteer fire brigade took part in preparing the overgrown moat and creating an open-air stage at Düben Castle. The first concert of choirs and instrumental groups from Bad Düben and Wellaune took place on the second Whit holiday in 1952 . In the autumn of 1952, the first performance of Willy Winkler's play Eine Menschen Recht , based on Heinrich von Kleist's novella on the events of Kohlhase's Handel from 1532 to 1540, was performed for the first time by the theater group “Heimatbühne Bad Düben”, which has existed since 1920 .
For the construction of the museum, Willy Winkler often went through the city and collected building materials for the expansion of the museum. He was joined by fellow campaigners who were later called "lords of the castle". In 1953 the "Landscape Museum of the Dübener Heide" was finished and Willy Winkler became museum director. The number of visitors rose to a good 30,000 visitors annually, museums in Delitzsch, Bitterfeld and Eilenburg only had 6,000 to 8,000 visitors annually. The success also brought envious people and enemies, which was expressed in not granted printing permits for their own publications or the pretext of a lack of paper for popular magazines such as Der Aussicht or Das Landecho . There were also attempts to prevent the park and home festivals in 1956 and 1960, during which there were also temporary arrests of fellow campaigners and an almost complete change in the pageant. In 1966, a report on the development of the museum stated that it would not have been possible to fill the 20 or so exhibition rooms without Willy Winkler's extensive collection.
Honors
- Not far from Düben Castle, a street was named after Willy-Winkler and is part of the memorial trail in Bad Düben.
- In 2014, on the occasion of his 110th birthday, there was a ceremony with a program and exhibition in the foyer of the Volksbank in Bad Düben.
Web links
- Portrait of Willy Winkler with photos
- Landscape museum of the Düben Heath at Düben Castle
- Willy Winkler printing company
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saxony-Anhalt Wiki: Willy Winkler. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 5, 2017 ; accessed on October 4, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e Lutz Fritzsche: Willy Winkler. Saxony-Reading, accessed on October 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung: Bad Dübens "Willy Winkler" is North Saxony's smallest print shop. October 26, 2015, accessed October 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Heike Nyari: Worthy memory of Willy Winkler in Bad Düben. Leipziger Volkszeitung, November 30, 2014, accessed October 4, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winkler, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German printer, local researcher and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Over there |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1986 |
| Place of death | Bad Düben |