Diedrich Speckmann He was borne on February 12, 1872 in Hermannsburg. After school and study in 1904, he became a pastor in Grassberg. Since the year 1910, he lived as a free writer in Fischerhude, where he died on May 28, 1938. His life's work contains 15 stories, 2 novels and 3 collections of short stories. To his known and most successful books belong: Heidjers Homecoming (1904), Moorland-Farm Lohe (1906), Siblings Rosenbrock (1911) and Jan Murken (1922). In his stories, he describes the life on country, in particular that in the Lueneburg- Moorland, but also the problems during the colonization of the Teufelsmoor (Devilsbog). Diedrich Speckmann was the most widely read regional writer of that time.