Schliffer, Wilhelm
Decorative painter, local historian
Born: February 26, 1896 in Naurod
died: December 21, 1972 in Naurod

Wilhelm Schliffer was born in Naurod, which was incorporated into Wiesbaden in 1977. Schliffer was a trained decorative painter and worked as a local historian in his home town.

In the early 1930s, he searched for traces of early settlements in his birthplace and roamed the district on foot. He found what he was looking for in the area around the Kellerskopf on the Erbsenacker and in the southern parts of the district. There he found hitherto unknown burial mounds. Schliffer often measured these parts of the district with the simplest of tools and documented his findings. This resulted in a hand-drawn archaeological map at the beginning of the 1930s.

Wilhelm Schliffer also researched the history of Naurod during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and from 1932 published regularly in "Alt-Nassau", a newspaper supplement of the "Wiesbadener Tagblatt". His articles made no reference to National Socialism.

Schliffer was also active as a painter. However, he never sold a painting, but gave them away to family members and friends or kept them for himself.