About Ludwig Siebler
Wiggerl was born in Munich on 26 November 1932. He has never left Munich and its surroundings as his home and place of residence. He is married to Elfriede and has a son and a grandson. In 2005 he left the city flat in which he was born and moved to Poing. Now the Sieblers live in the countryside and have a garden to work in. His son’s family lives very close by.
Wiggerl is a joiner by trade. Until his retirement he worked in the Olympiapark. His manual skill and versatility stood him in very good stead when it came to creating the conditions for an opera performance to take place in the Olympiahalle today, a sporting event tomorrow and an animal show after that. Today he lives out his manual skill in fitting out his own flat, where every piece of furniture is made to measure for the proportions of the room.
He came to the Münchener Mineralienfreunde in the first half of the 1990s. After some initial difficulties, he and his wife Elfriede found their feet in the society’s seniors’ group. He has taken, and still takes, particular interest in the group’s excursions to Alsace, Provence, Poland, Slovakia and elsewhere. The Sieblers are especially popular fellow travellers on these excursions – not only because of their companionable and modest manner, but also because of another hobby of Wiggerl’s, filming. Always on the move with his video camera, he documents the group’s excursions with lovely pictures and scenes. After each trip, the participants look forward to the group evening at which Wiggerl shows the lovingly produced travel video, set to music and accompanied by commentary.
Soon he also joined the micromounters’ working group. Here too he takes an active part in group life and, together with Elfriede, in the group trips. Among the micromounters, too, the two are popular not least because of their enthusiasm for collecting, walking and filming.
In the Lithothek Wiggerl is represented above all by specimens that we prepared out of raw material he provided when he moved to Poing. After the death of his friend Heinz Kopsch he took over his micromount collection, large parts of which he contributed to the Lithothek.