Volker choice

Volker Wahl (born June 10, 1943 in Steinbach-Hallenberg ) is a German archivist and historian .

Life

After training as an office machine mechanic, teacher and archivist, Wahl lives as a retired state archive director. D. in Weimar . After studying German and English at the University of Education in Potsdam , he passed a state examination as a teacher in 1966 and initially worked in school in Schmalkalden . From 1972 to 1974 he completed an external degree in archival science at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he completed in 1974 with a diploma as archivist. In 1976 he received his doctorate in regional history and in 1987 his habilitation in cultural history on Jena as a city of art.

From 1969 to 2008 Wahl worked in the archive service; in Weimar he worked as a scientific archivist in the state archive from 1969 . From 1975 to 1986 he was university archivist in Jena , from 1986 to 1991 director of the Goethe and Schiller archive in Weimar and finally director of the Thuringian main state archive in Weimar from 1991 to 2008.

Since 1994 Wahl exercised a part-time teaching activity for archival studies and historical auxiliary sciences as a private lecturer , since 2001 as an adjunct professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Wahl was chairman of the Thuringian Archives Association from 1990 to 1998 and was on the board of the VdA - Association of German Archivists from 1997 to 2005 . V. as deputy chairman at the side of Norbert Reimann , from 2001 as chairman. He is a founding member of the Historical Commission for Thuringia (1991; member of the board from 2002 to 2008) and a full member of the Academy of Non-Profit Science in Erfurt , humanities class (since 1994). From 1992 to 2017 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Karl May Foundation in Radebeul and from 1995 to 2012 of the board of trustees of the Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation .

Works (selection)

• Bibliography of the publications from 1968 to 2008 in: "Oldest preserved with faithfulness, friendly new". Festschrift for Volker Wahl for his 65th birthday. Published on behalf of the Thuringian Archives Association by Katrin Beger, Dagmar Blaha, Frank Boblenz and Johannes Mötsch . Thuringian Archives Association 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024781-1 , pp. 621-655.

Numerous publications on the history of Thuringia, the cultural and scientific history of Jenas and Weimar and the archives, including:

• The beginning of the anti-fascist-democratic upheaval in Thuringia. The organization of social forces and the rebuilding of the state administration 1945 , dissertation Jena 1976.
• Ricarda Huch : Years in Jena. Jena: City Museum, 1982.
• Ernst Abbe : Letters to his childhood and college friends Carl Martin and Harald Schütz 1858–1865 , ed. u. edit by Volker Wahl and Joachim Wittig. Berlin: Akademie Verl., 1986.
• Jena as a city of art. Encounters with modern art in the Thuringian university town between 1900 and 1933. Leipzig: Seemann Verlag, 1988 (habilitation thesis)
• Steinbach-Hallenberg. Past and present. Steinbach-Hallenberg: City Council, 1978; newly published in an expanded form under the title: A walk through the history of Steinbach-Hallenberg and the surrounding area. Steinbach-Hallenberg: Hallenburg Verlag, 1990.
• The rescue of the poet's coffins. The fate of Goethe and Schiller's sarcophagi at the end of the war in 1945. Weimar: Stadtmuseum, 1991.
• Friedrich Schiller : What does universal history mean and at what end? The academic inaugural address of 1789, ed. on behalf of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Jena: Verl. Dr. Bussert et al. Partner, 1996.
• "The child in my womb". Moral offenses and child murder in Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach under Carl August. A source edition 1777–1786. Weimar: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., 2004.
• Henry van de Velde in Weimar. Documents and reports on the promotion of arts and crafts and industry 1902 to 1915. Weimar: Böhlau, 2007.
• The State Bauhaus in Weimar. Documents on the history of the institute from 1919 to 1926. Weimar: Böhlau, 2009.
• The Weimar Bauhaus: a study book on its history 1919–1926. Jena: Vopelius 2019

From 2008 to 2017 Wahl was publisher, editor and author of the quarterly magazine Weimar-Jena: Die Große Stadt. The cultural-historical archive published by Vopelius-Verlag Jena.

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Wahl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Volker Wahl  in the German Digital Library