Hans Michael Finger

Hans Michael Finger (born September 15, 1875, in Bottendorf; died 1964 in Peine) was a German teacher and head of the district home office in Peine.

Life After graduating with the title Born in the then province of Hesse-Nassau, Hans Michael Finger.

Finger, who had previously worked as a senior teacher in Peine, took over the management of the private further education school for women opened on January 16, 1911, by the Frauenwohl association, until April 1, 1918, when it was in municipal administration as the municipal commercial school for girls was subordinated to the vocational school, which later became Peiner Commercial School.

After the First World War, on the initiative of the Peine city school board in Bruns, the adult education center in Peine had started its activities on November 3, 1919. The public education office of the city and the district of Peine opened in December 1920 following a compliant decision by the city and district councils. At the same time, Hans Michael Finger, who at the time acted as spokesman for the community council, took over the management of the new office, into which the adult education center was then also integrated. In addition, in his new position as organizer, he was also responsible for "concerts, showing cultural films and theater performances". Already in the first half of winter 1920 he organized 31 theater performances in Peine. The cultural functionary and teacher Hans Michael Finger and the mayor of Pein, Wiard Bronleewe, played a key role "in the distribution of Jewish property". Finger justified the theft of the Biedermeier room of the Sostmann family for the local local history museum with the fact that the furniture of the Sostmanns "had nothing Jewish about it."

Finger was head of the Peiner district home office and in this function he managed, among other things, the local war chronicle, which he compiled mainly from a collection of materials up to the end of the World War II. Finger was acting as an interpreter. Thanks to Finger's explanations, the further bombardment of Peine was averted almost at the last minute. A photograph of the handover of the city to the commander Captain Grundmann was taken, which also showed the interpreter Hans-Michael Finger, the provisional district administrator Max Heinemann, the mayor of Bronleewe and the hospital director Heinrich Meyeringh and later ended up in the archive of the military historian Karl-Heinz Heineke.

Works as author: H. M. Finger (Verf.), August Wietfeld (Vorrede): Die Stadt Peine, hrsg. im Auftrag des Volksbildungsamtes für Stadt und Kreis Peine ( = Monographien Deutscher Städte), Essen; Hannover: Deutscher Städte-Verlag, 1926 table of contents as editor: H. M. Finger (Hrsg.), August Köster: Geschichte der Stadt Peine und ihrer Umgebung: Mit Beiträgen über Entstehung und Wappen der Stadt / Im Auftrag der Stadtverwaltung

Archival materials Archival materials by and about Hans Michael Finger can be found, for example in the city archive of Peine as a deposit finger, 43 numbers of the "Handakten des Leiters des Kreisheimatwerkes“ ("hand files of the head of the district home office") for the period 1880 to 1945