Roland Paul

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Roland Paul (born February 3, 1951 in Landstuhl ) is a German historian and folklorist .

Life

Roland Paul grew up in the West Palatinate community of Steinwend and attended schools in Landstuhl and Kaiserslautern . From 1971 he first studied German, history and sociology at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Education (EWH) in Landau (since 1990: University of Koblenz-Landau ) and completed his studies with the state examination for school service. He then studied German folklore and history at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . After the 2nd state examination in 1978, Paul initially worked as a research assistant at the Pfalz home office in Kaiserslautern, which was later renamed the Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore . He retired as director of this institute in 2016.

Paul, who lives in Kaiserslautern and Steinenken, has been a visiting professor at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania on several occasions .

Act

Since 1980, in addition to his monographs and editions, there are over 250 articles in books and journals, which mainly represent the result of his historical research. The research focuses on historical facts from the region with the main focus on the Palatinate immigration and emigration movements, the history of the Palatinate Jews, Palatine folklore , house research and the preservation of monuments in the Palatinate .

He did not attract the greatest attention until his retirement, when in November 2016 a small article by him about Friedrich Trump , Donald Trump's grandfather, who emigrated from the Palatinate , appeared in the Bild newspaper and met with great international interest in media such as CNN . The life story of Friedrich Trump and his failed return and expulsion in 1905, which was in the center of interest after the election of his grandson as US President, had already been presented in detail in 2000 in the book The Trumps by Gwenda Blair .

Honorary positions

Honors

Works (selection)

Essays

  • The American emigrant Friedrich Trump from Kallstadt and the failure of his return migration . In: Palatinate home . Volume 67, 2016, pp. 15-21.

Book publications

  • 1683-1983. 300 years of emigration from Palatinate to North America (= information from the State Center for Civic Education Rhineland-Palatinate). Mainz 1983.
  • (together with Klaus Fischer and Wolfgang Knapp): Pfalz Card. Museums in town, village and landscape. Bad Dürkheim 1999.
  • (together with Dieter Zenglein): Quirnbach. Contributions to local history. Festschrift for the 850th anniversary of the community. Kusel 2002.
  • (together with Alfred Schwerin): From Dachau to Basel. Memories of a Jewish Palatine from the years 1938 to 1940. Kaiserslautern 2003, ISBN 978-3927754454 .
  • (together with Thomas Christmann): Weltersbach. Forays through the local history, published by the municipality of Steinenken. Kaiserslautern 2006.
  • "Life is much better here than in Germany". Letters from Palatine emigrants from North America (1733–1899). Kaiserslautern 2008.
  • "You have a much better life here than in Germany". Letters from Palatine emigrants from North America (1733–1899). Kaiserslautern 2009, ISBN 978-3-927754-65-2 .
  • The Palatine Jews deported to Gurs. A documentation. Kaiserslautern 2010.

Editions

  • 800 years of Steinenken - 550 years of Weltersbach . Contributions to local history. Mackenbach 1980.
  • 300 Years Palatines in America - 300 Years Palatines in America. Landau 1983, ISBN 978-3876290386 .
  • (together with Friedrich Keller and Erich Brill): 600 years of Nanzdietschweiler . Contributions to local studies. Homburg / Saarpfalz 1983.
  • 1000 years of Obermohr . Contributions to local studies. 1990.
  • (together with Bernhard Gerlach): Jews from Kaiserslautern as victims of persecution during the Nazi era . 1938-1945. Kaiserslautern 1990.
  • (together with Werner Schwartz, Karl Scherer and Werner Seeling): Protestant-Evangelical-Christian . Becoming and profile of our Palatinate Church. Catalog for the exhibition on the 175th anniversary of the Palatinate Church Union 1818–1993.
  • (together with Karl-Friedrich Geißler and Jürgen Müller): The Great Palatinate Book . 7th, completely revised edition. Landau 1995, ISBN 978-3876292991 .
  • (together with Karl Scherer): Palatine in America - Palatines in America. Kaiserslautern 1995, ISBN 978-3927754294 .
  • Willi Alwens: The white cross in the Bienwald and the Schaidter district forester Johann Wilhelm Alwens (1787-1854) . Kaiserslautern 1996.
  • (together with Karl Scherer and Otfried K. Linde ): Psychiatry under National Socialism . The Klingenmünster sanatorium and nursing home 1933–1945. Kaiserslautern 1999, ISBN 978-3927754348 .
  • (together with Nikolaus Götz and Dieter Müller): The Schernau . From the workers' colony to the old people's, nursing and transitional homes. Martinshöhe 1999.
  • (together with Werner Kremp): The emigration to North America from the regions of today's Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Atlantic texts, published by the Atlantic Academy Rhineland-Palatinate eV, vol. 16). Trier 2002, ISBN 978-3884765111 .
  • (together with Jürgen Keddigkeit , Jens Stöcker and Alexander Thon): Vestigiis Historiae Palatinae . Festschrift for Karl Scherer on his 65th birthday. Kaiserslautern 2002, ISBN 978-3-927754-49-2 .
  • (together with Bernhard Schäfer and Karl-Heinz Ott): 150 years of the Protestant church in Steinrechen . Hostel on the way to the kingdom of God. Steinwend 2003, ISBN 978-3935030069 .
  • (together with Klaus Freckmann, Hartmut Hofrichter and Burghart Schmidt): Historic houses in the rural regions of the Palatinate . (Contributions to the Palatinate Folklore, published by the Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Vol. 11, and series of publications on Dendrochronology and Building Research, Vol. 5), Kaiserslautern 2005, ISBN 978-3894453589 .
  • (together with Werner Kremp and Helmut Schmahl): Palatine in America (= Atlantic texts, published by the Atlantic Academy Rhineland-Palatinate eV, vol. 33). Trier 2010, ISBN 978-3-86821-224-2 .
  • (together with Barbara Schuttpelz): Kaiserslautern Yearbook for Palatinate History and Folklore . Vol. 12, (Festschrift for Jürgen Keddigkeit on his 65th birthday), Kaiserslautern 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum Vitae , accessed December 11, 2012.
  2. ^ The Palatinate Judaism , accessed on December 12, 2012.
  3. ^ Curriculum Vitae , accessed December 11, 2012.
  4. ^ The Guardian , accessed October 17, 2017.
  5. ↑ CNN , accessed October 17, 2017.
  6. ↑ Allemagne: le village des ancêtres de Donald Trump fait profil bas ( Memento of August 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), in Le Point, accessed on October 17, 2017.
  7. ↑ Calrin , accessed October 17, 2017.
  8. ↑ La lettera con cui il nonno di Trump fu espulso dalla Germania ( Memento of November 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), in La Stampa, accessed on October 17, 2017.
  9. ↑ Gwenda Blair: The Trumps. Three Generations that Built an Empire . Simon & Schuster, 2000, ISBN 0-7432-1079-4 .
  10. ^ Historical Association of the Palatinate , accessed on December 12, 2012.
  11. ^ Association for Palatinate Church History , accessed on September 14, 2016.
  12. ^ Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science , accessed on December 12, 2012.
  13. ↑ 968538312 - Catalog entry of the German National Library
  14. ↑ Weltersbach , accessed December 12, 2012.
  15. ↑ Demokratiegeschichte.eu: Daniel Hertle (1821–1875) , accessed on December 12, 2012.
  16. ↑ Counteracting forgetting , accessed on December 12, 2012,
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Landstuhl