Wettel, Franz (pseudonym: Beatus Streiter)
Banat Author Historian and Politician
Born 1854 February 24,1854 in Werschetz, (Banat) and died August 5,1938 in Timișoara, Romania. An active Swabian historian and politician. Together with Edmund Steinacker, he is one of the founders of the Hungarian German People’s Party (UDVP), which was founded in Werschetz on December 30, 1906. He also worked as a local historian and had become wealthy as a bookseller and publisher. He left his Banatica library in the form of a “Wettel Foundation” to Banatia in Timisoara. It had been in the school’s staff room since 1936 and was administered by H. Hegel until 1942. After the royal coup in Romania in 1944, it was outsourced.
Author of:
Sechs Lyriker. Deutschbanater Volksbücher 5. Temeswar. 1912.
Gedenkblätter. Deutschbanater Volksbücher 29. Temeswar. 1918.
Temeschwar im Mittelalter. Deutschbanater Volksbücher 37. Temeswar. Um 1924.
Geschichte des Banates im Altertum und Mittelalter. Publisher: Deutschbanater Volksbücher 47. Temeswar. 1927. English: History of the Banat and in Ancient Times
Beiträge zur Chronik der Gemeinde Neubeschenowa. Deutschbanater Volksbücher 52. Temeswar. 1930.
Karl von Sonklar. Deutschbanater Volksbücher 54. Temeswar. 1931.
Alfred von Domassewski. Deutschbanater Volksbücher 56. Temeswar. 1931.
Biographische Skizzen. 3. Auflage. Deutschbanater Volksbücher 6. Temeswar. 1932.
Wettel, Franz: Deutsch-Banater Dichterinnen und Künstlerinnen. Deutschbanater Volksbücher 58. Temeswar. 1933.
Last updated: 07/18/2025