Heinz Ritt

Heinz Ritt (born December 30, 1918 in Neukrug, Pomerania ; † May 30, 2010 ) was a German heraldist .

Life

Heinz Ritt initially worked (1946–1949) as a porcelain painter in a small factory in Bad Nauheim . After the ceramics company closed, Heinz Ritt worked as an administrative employee and as a freelance local and family heraldist in Hesse. He quickly gained a good reputation and designed over 1,000 coats of arms , flags and seals as a freelancer for the three Hessian state archives . He is considered the creator of the newer Hessian municipal heraldry.

Heinz Ritt was a corresponding member of the scientific-heraldic association Herold zu Berlin, member of the heraldic association "Zum Kleeblatt" e. V. in Hanover and honorary member of the Hessian Family History Association e. V. Since 1985 he has worked for the German coat of arms .

Works

The coat of arms most frequently used by Ritt

• Illustrator
  • of the Hessian Wappenbuch (local coat of arms) with approx. 1000 municipal coats of arms - a groundbreaking work for the documentation of municipal heraldry in Germany
  • the Hessian coat of arms (1951–1977)
  • the coats of arms of bourgeois families in the German Gender Book (1955–1978)
• further publications as part of the municipal coat of arms series in the Frankfurter Rundschau (1958–1968)
• Coat of arms of the Eisenhower family (former US President)

Awards

• 1970: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1991: Letter of Honor from the State of Hesse
• 2000: Hessian Order of Merit on ribbon

Exhibitions

• Heraldic exhibition in the Hessian State Archive in Marburg with subsequent exhibitions in Darmstadt and Wiesbaden

Web links

Commons : Coat of arms of Heinz Ritt  - collection of images

• Works and biography of Heinz Ritt ( Memento from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• In memoriam Heinz Ritt (1918–2010). In: zum-kleeblatt.de. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .