Hermann Löns

29.08.1866 - 26.09.1914



Author of the North - German heather region.
His poetry was set to music and validated as folk
music. He was an outstanding observer of nature
and became the poet of the youth movement.

He attended school at Münster. He studied medicine
and the science of nature in Münster, Greifswald/Göttingen.

In 1891 he became an editor for the Hannover newspaper
and magazines as well as the editor of the Schaumburg -
Lippischen Country newspaper. From 1912 to 1914
he was a freelance writer.

As an army volunteer, he was killed in action in 1914
and was buried in Fallingbostel.