Alfred Penkert

Alfred Penkert (born October 29, 1933 in Heilsberg in Warmia ; † July 26, 2019 in Hamm ) was a German pedagogue , regional historian and non-fiction author .

Life

Alfred Penkert was born in 1933 in the Heilsberg district as the son of master tailor Josef Penkert. In the course of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe , he came to occupied Germany and lived in Westphalia from 1946 . He passed his Abitur in 1955 at the St. Xaver Humanistic Missionary School in Bad Driburg , which was founded by Steyler missionaries . He had a teaching certificate for teachers at secondary schools in the subjects of history, German and Catholic religious education.

He made his debut as an author in 1980 with a book about vocational schools in the city of Hamm. He then conducted research in the archives of the Apostolic Visitator Ermland in the Ermlandhaus zu Münster and in 1999 published a first monograph on the integration of the priests who fled and expelled from the Diocese of Warmia in the years from 1945 to 1947. In the following years, three relevant publications appeared on the fate and the living conditions of refugees and displaced persons from Warmia and their arrival in the West.

After 37 years of teaching, he has been retired in Hamm since 1996.

Fonts

Monographs

• 150 years of vocational schools in the city of Hamm. An outline of their past and present, with special consideration of the industrial-technical vocational school, 1830–1980 (= facts and reports , volume 35). Chief City Director of the City of Hamm, Hamm 1980. DNB 810087529
• In last place? The integration of the displaced and displaced priests of the Diocese of Warmia into the dioceses of the four zones of occupation in Germany from 1945–1947. An investigation based on the source material in the archive of the Apostolic Visitor Warmia in the Warmia House in Münster . Bishop Maximilian Kaller Foundation, Münster 1999.
• Warmia in the diversion. The East Prussian Catholics after their flight and expulsion . Bishop Maximilian Kaller Foundation, Münster 2000.
• They came out of the great tribulation. East Prussian - especially Warmia - refugees and displaced persons in correspondence with Bishop Maximilian Kaller in the years 1945–1947 . Bishop Maximilian Kaller Foundation, Münster 2002.
• Higher powers have decided. Flight, expulsion and arrival of East Prussian Catholics as reflected in their correspondence with Bishop Maximilian Kaller. With an outline of the Warmia post-war history (= Contributions to Theology, Church and Society in the 20th Century , Volume 15). Lit Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1227-0 .

Essays

• Heinrich Suso Waldeck was born 125 years ago . In: Yearbook Mies- Pilsen , Volume 7 (1998), pp. 4-16.
• Restless, restless and completed early . In: Ermlandbuch , Heft 61 (2010), pp. 179–184.
• The everyday situation of the Ermländer 1945–1947 as reflected in their correspondence with Bishop Maximilian Kaller . In: Thomas Flammer , u. a. (Ed.): Maximilian Kaller - Bishop of the Wandering Church. Flight and displacement - integration - bridge building (= magazine for the history and archeology of Warmia , supplement 20). Münster 2012, pp. 66–76.

Web links

• Penkert Alfred in the Index theologicus
• Publications by Penkert, Alfred at Litdok East Central Europe

Footnotes

1. ↑ Obituary in the Westphalian Gazette of July 30, 2019
2. ↑ Ostpreußenblatt , year 1955, No. 15, p. 18.