Rieser, Georg
Teacher, dialect poet
Born: February 11, 1900 in Auringen
died: October 27, 1989 in Wiesbaden-Auringen

Georg Rieser was born in Auringen, which was incorporated into Wiesbaden in 1977, as the son of the innkeeper Karl Rieser and his wife Helene. He attended elementary school in Auringen from 1906 to 1914. After leaving school, Rieser trained as a primary school teacher at the teacher training college in Usingen. Rieser's teacher training was interrupted by his deployment in the war in 1918.

Rieser completed his training in 1920 and initially worked as a primary school teacher in Nied am Rhein. This was followed by six further positions at various elementary school in what is now the Rhine-Main region, until Rieser became a teacher at the elementary school in his home town of Auringen. He taught here until his retirement in 1965.

In addition to his work as a primary school teacher, Rieser published two volumes of poetry in Nassau dialect in 1928 and 1930. In particular, the volume entitled "Dorch de Taunuswald maschiern Besatzungsdrubbe" ("Occupation troops march through the Taunus forest") deals with the Allied occupation by the French army in the Taunus after the end of the First World War. Some of the poems were also inspired by the First World War itself, as is particularly evident in the poem "Modder" ("Modder" or "Schlick"), in which Rieser refers to the life of the German front soldiers in the trenches.

After the National Socialists seized power, Georg Rieser joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933. He held the office of block leader in the party. Rieser also acted as a training officer and community group leader. Rieser was also a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare Organization and the Nazi Teachers' Association. In December 1937, Rieser also applied for membership of the Reichsschrifttumskammer and was accepted.

Training officers were appointed in various Nazi professional associations such as the National Socialist Teachers' Association, the National Socialist People's Welfare Association and the Hitler Youth. The task of these representatives was the "ideological training" of the respective association members in their area of responsibility. The NSDAP Gauleiter of Hesse-Nassau, Jakob Sprenger, emphasized in a speech at the Gauschulungstagung in Frankfurt am Main in 1942 how important training work was in waging spiritual warfare. According to Sprenger, only those who were close to National Socialism and behaved in an exemplary manner should be appointed as training officers. It can therefore at least be assumed that Rieser was an exposed National Socialist in the municipality of Auringen as a block leader and training officer.

Rieser was not called up for military service during the Second World War, but continued to work as a teacher in Auringen. After the end of the war, Georg Rieser was classified in Group 4 ("fellow travelers") by the Bad Schwalbach court in August 1947. He was banned from teaching for two years, which was suspended in 1948. He also had to pay 2,000 RM to the compensation fund. Rieser continued to work as a teacher and published another volume of poetry in the 1980s.

A street in the Auringen district was named after Georg Rieser following a decision by the municipal council on July 23, 1991. The historical commission appointed by the city council in 2020 to review traffic areas, buildings and facilities named after people in the state capital of Wiesbaden recommended the contextualization of Georg-Wieser-Straße due to Rieser's membership of several National Socialist organizations (NSDAP, Reichsschrifttumskammer, NSLB, NSV). As a block leader, community group leader and training officer, he was a low-ranking functionary in the NSDAP and thus actively supported the National Socialist state.