Gerd Spies

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Gerd Spies (born around 1940) is a German historian ; from 1977 to 2003 he was director of the Städtisches Museum in Braunschweig .

Life

Spies was born in Swabia and completed his Abitur in Nürtingen, he studied in Stuttgart and at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen . He completed his studies with a dissertation on the stove and the stove trade in southwest Germany . As early as 1961 he was working at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for German Classical Studies, Folklore and Dialect Research there and published an exhibition catalog. After completing his studies, he came to Braunschweig via Stuttgart, where he worked for the Municipal Museum. From 1977 until his retirement in 2003 he worked there as director. During this time he published numerous writings on Brunswick history . In 1996 there was a scandal because of an exhibition about the Nazi propaganda painter Paul Haehndel (1914–1941), which had to be closed again at the urging of the public. He was also an assessor and honorary advisory board member of the Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein .

Works (selection)

  • Swabian pottery. Exhibition by the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Folklore at the University of Tübingen; from November 4th to 26th, 1961 in the castle. Ludwig Uhland Institute for Folklore at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen 1961, OCLC 835421981 .
  • Hafner and Hafnerhandwerk in Southwest Germany. In: Volksleben. Volume 2. (= dissertation, University of Tübingen from August 26, 1964.) Tübingen 1964, OCLC 250861084 .
  • Braunschweig faience. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1971, OCLC 325850 .
  • Festschrift for the exhibition Brunswiek 1031, Braunschweig 1981. The city of Henry the Lion from its beginnings to the present, from April 25th. 1981 to 11.10. 1981. Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig 1981, OCLC 7923536
  • Braunschweig, the image of the city in 900 years. History and views. 2 volumes. Municipal Museum, Braunschweig 1985, OCLC 13537757 .
  • Brunswick goldsmiths. History - works - masters and brands. 3 volumes. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1996 ISBN 3-7814-0393-9 .
  • Four decades of the Schmücking Gallery in Braunschweig (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Volume 19. and Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Volume 103.) Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-927288-31-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckhard Schimpf: "Yes, I am a trained Braunschweiger" - Gerd Spies, once head of the Municipal Museum, chatted about the lion . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . May 4, 2018 ( braunschweiger-zeitung.de - article can only be viewed with subscription).
  2. ↑ Frank Siering: The Big Money Show - The messed up exhibition with works by a Nazi painter caused a stir in Braunschweig . In: Focus . No. 29 , July 15, 1996 ( focus.de ).
  3. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte . Volume 84. Self-published, Wolfenbüttel 2003, p. 288 ( tu-braunschweig.de )
  4. ↑ Board members of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte. Volume 85. ISSN  1437-2959 ( tu-braunschweig.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Spies, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH around 1940