Wilhelm Trute

It is very likely that he attended school in Sankt Andreasberg and worked in the local mineral processing unit as a teenager to supplement his family's income.

While working as a miner, he pursued his passion for breeding of canaries, but rheumatism and, from 1889, gastric trouble which later turned out to be stomach cancer chained him to his bed.

[1] Wilhelm Trute's ancestors reached the Harz[2] in the 15th century from the Ore Mountains, making his family one of the oldest in Sankt Andreasberg.

To point out the special relationship between mining and canary breeding a vessel for ore processing was mounted in the cage as a symbolised drinking bowl.

The local association for the care of the cemetery of Sankt Andreasbrg in cooperation with the Samson Pit Museum reerected Trute's grave on its former location.