Alois Seiler (historian, 1933)

Alois Seiler (born September 2, 1933 in Horchheim near Worms , † July 26, 1992 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German archivist and historian . From 1975 to 1992 he was director of the Ludwigsburg State Archives .

Life

Alois Seiler came from Horchheim near Worms. From 1952 he studied history and German at the University of Mainz and received his doctorate in 1958 under Eugen Ewig on the beginnings of “the organization of the parish and rural dean's office in the archdeaconates of the diocese of Speyer on the right bank of the Rhine”. After the state examination for teaching in 1959/60, he completed his legal clerkship at the Marburg Archive School from 1960 . He joined the State of Baden-Württemberg as an archive assessor and was transferred to the Ludwigsburg State Archives on July 1, 1962 , where he worked for 30 years. In 1975 he became archive director and head of the archive, which had been housed in unsuitable premises in Ludwigsburg Palace since it was founded in 1868 . One of Seiler's main tasks during his tenure was therefore to provide the archive with a new home that would meet the technical requirements. Result was ultimately the draw, begun in 1992 in new Archives in the former armory and the former Arsenal barracks . Seiler died before the end of the move, which lasted until 1995.

In addition to his archival work, Seiler has emerged as a historian with publications on the history of the south-west of Germany and the church. a. on the history of the Ellwangen Monastery and the history of the Teutonic Order .

Web links

Publications by Alois Seiler. Retrieved August 18, 2014 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Günter Cordes: Alois Seiler † . In: The archivist . Volume 45, No. 4 , 1992, Sp. 701-704 . on-line
↑ The writings on the history of the Worms monastery in the Middle Ages and on the wisdom of the villages of Roxheim, Bobenheim, Mörsch, Horchheim, Weinsheim and Wiesoppenheim come from Alois Seiler 's uncle of the same name .

personal data
SURNAME	Seiler, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Horchheim near Worms
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 1992
Place of death	Ludwigsburg

[Nachruf-1] A ^b Günter Cordes: Alois Seiler † . In: The archivist . Volume 45, No. 4 , 1992, Sp. 701-704 . on-line

[2] The writings on the history of the Worms monastery in the Middle Ages and on the wisdom of the villages of Roxheim, Bobenheim, Mörsch, Horchheim, Weinsheim and Wiesoppenheim come from Alois Seiler 's uncle of the same name .