Herbert Wiegandt

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Herbert Wiegandt (born September 20, 1914 in Ulm ; † November 15, 2003 ) was a German author and librarian. He became known as "Wieland" in the Eugen Rapp books by the writer Hermann Lenz .

Life

Herbert Wiegandt grew up in Ulm. He had two older brothers; Robert ran an estate in Tbodla , Otto was a teacher and local researcher in Ulm. One of his cousins ​​was the architect Paul Trüdinger , one of his uncles Robert zum Tobel .

Herbert Wiegandt studied philosophy , history, and art history in Heidelberg and - after Karl Jaspers' license to teach was revoked in 1937 - in Munich . Friendships with Hermann Lenz and Werner Siegel began during his student days .

During the Second World War he served as a soldier in the medical field. In September 1942 Wiegandt married Helga Sindlinger from Stuttgart . The church wedding took place in Ulm Minster .

Wiegandt was wounded in Poland in 1944 . When the American forces marched in, he was in Bückeburg , from where he returned to Ulm on foot. He arrived there on May 3, 1945. Wiegandt's parents' house at Schaffnerstrasse 8, built by his grandfather, fell victim to a bomb attack on December 17, 1944; However, the Wiegandt couple found accommodation near their old home. Wiegandt's widowed mother - the father had died in 1937 - and his brother Otto lived in Schaffnerstrasse 8; they survived the bombing.

In June 1945 Herbert Wiegandt became head of the municipal public library in Ulm; he held this office for twenty years. In the literary business of the post-war period he belonged to the circle around Inge Aicher-Scholl and Otl Aicher . In 1965 he became a professor at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences for Libraries . In 1979 he retired.

Herbert Wiegandt edited, among other things, translated texts from Felix Fabri's Evagatorium on the pilgrimage to the Holy Land .

He was buried in the Stuttgart forest cemetery.

Publications

  • Ulm. Life story of a city . Bonn 1969.
  • Felix Fabri galley and caravan, pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Sinai and Egypt 1483 , edited by Herbert Wiegandt. Stuttgart 1996.
  • Civil time in conflict. Konrad Dieterich Haßler 1803 to 1873. From politics to monument preservation . Ulm 1998, ISBN 978-3-88294-269-9 .
  • Island existence. Pre-war and war 1935–1945, letters and records (= publications of the Ulm City Library 21). Weißenhorn 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary notice of the Stuttgarter Zeitung, issue of November 18, 2003.
  2. ^ Hermann Lenz, pictures from my album , Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-458-14608-3 . Wiegandt can be seen there several times: p. 83 (with Hermann Lenz at his desk in Munich, 1934), p. 85 (with Hermann Lenz in the garden of his parents' house in Stuttgart, 1934) and p. 115 (with Hanne and Hermann Lenz in front the registry office in Stuttgart, 1946).
  3. ↑ Herbert Wiegandt, Island Existence. Pre-war and war 1935-1945, letters and records , Weißenhorn 2002, ISBN 3-87437-461-0 , p. 45.
  4. ↑ a b Ulm City Library ( Memento from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Horst Denkler: Werkruinen, Lebenstrümmer: Literary traces of the 'lost generation' of the Third Reich (=  investigations into German literary history . Volume 127 ). Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 3-11-091916-8 , p. 180 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ↑ Herbert Wiegandt, Island Existence. Pre-war and war 1935–1945, letters and records , Weißenhorn 2002, ISBN 3-87437-461-0 , p. 140.
  7. ↑ Ulm City Library ( Memento from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Herbert Wiegandt, Island Existence. Pre-war and war 1935–1945, letters and records , Weißenhorn 2002, ISBN 3-87437-461-0 , p. 179
  9. ↑ Herbert Wiegandt, Island Existence. Pre-war and war 1935–1945, letters and records , Weißenhorn 2002, ISBN 3-87437-461-0 , p. 42.
  10. ↑ Review of island existence on dzokulm.telebus.de. Retrieved November 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wiegandt, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 2003