Hans Albert Alexander Louis Carl Stuhlmacher (1892–1962) was a German

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officer and

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Life and works

Hans Stuhlmacher was born on 16 May 1892 in Lüneburg, the son of a district court chancery clerk (''Landgerichtskanzlist''), Friedrich Stuhlmacher, and his wife, Emma, née Ebbeke. On 11 November 1915 he married Margarethe Klinkhardt, by whom he had a son, Hans Georg. At the end of 1940 Hans Stuhlmacher was called up for Wehrmacht service for the second time. In late 1943 he reached the rank of

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. For many years Stuhlmacher was

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of the senior boy's grammar school in Walsrode and district local history

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of the old district of

Fallingbostel Bad Fallingbostel (Northern Low Saxon: ''Bad Fambossel'') is the district town (''Kreisstadt'') of the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony. Since 1976 the town has had a state-recognised Kneipp spa and has held the title of ...

. He died in Walsrode on 26 February 1962, shortly before the publication of his book, the ''Geschichte der Stadt Walsrode'' ("History of the Town of Walsrode") in September that year.

Works

* ''Chronik des Kreises Fallingbostel. Der Zeitabschnitt von 1866-1900.'' Gronemann, Walsrode 1926 * ''Das alte Amt Rethen 1669.'' Gronemann, Walsrode 1926 * ''Der Kreis Fallingbostel. Ein Heimatbuch des Kreises.'' Hrsg.: Kreisausschuß des Kreises Fallingbostel. Kunstdruck- u. Verlagsbüro Magdeburg, rünberg1935 * ''Die Heidmark.'' Engelhard, Hannover 1939 * ''Der Würger vom Lichtenmoor'', Gaatz,Fallingbostel 1949 * ''Geschichte der Stadt Walsrode.'' Bearb. u. zusammengestellt im Auftrag der Stadtverwaltung. Stadtverwaltung, Walsrode athaus1964 * ''Die Heidmark.'' Scheling, Walsrode 1976

Eponymous road

* In

Bad Fallingbostel Bad Fallingbostel (Northern Low Saxon: ''Bad Fambossel'') is the district town (''Kreisstadt'') of the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony. Since 1976 the town has had a state-recognised Kneipp spa and has held the title of ...

there is a ''Hans-Stuhlmacher-Straße''.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stuhlmacher, Hans Local historians German Army officers of World War II Heads of schools in Germany Walsrode Heidmark 1892 births 1962 deaths