Benno Hubensteiner

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Benno Hubensteiner (born December 4, 1924 in Gosseltshausen , Upper Bavaria , † February 4, 1985 in Munich ) was a German historian .

Life

The son of a businessman has been studying German, English, history and art history at the University of Munich since 1946 . In 1953 he was charged with a thesis on the Freising prince bishop Johann Franz Eckher of Kapfing and Liechteneck at Max Spindler doctorate .

Even during his studies, Hubensteiner, u. a. Together with Herbert Schindler and Josef Pfennigmann in a group of young Bavarian historians, contributions to the journals for historical research and homeland preservation , which appeared after the war, in the late 1940s and in the 1950s as a supplement to the newspaper Südostkurier . Hubensteiner also worked as a freelancer during his studies, and after completing his studies he was an editor in the culture department of Bayerischer Rundfunk . He was responsible for the broadcast series Pictures from Bavarian History and Unknown Bavaria . From 1956 he taught as a professor for history and art history at the then Philosophical-Theological University in Passau . After 1961 he returned to the Bavarian Broadcasting Company, where, after the establishment of the Second German Television (ZDF), he was to set up his own second program for the Bavarian Broadcasting Division at the federal level. In 1963 he became director of this Bavarian television . He returned to the Passau chair in 1964 and in 1973 became full professor of Bavarian church history at the University of Munich.

From 1969 to 1973 he was - together with August Leidl - director of the Institute for East Bavarian Local History Research . Hubensteiner's work Bavarian History , published in 16 editions (most recently in 2006) and first published in 1950, is one of the best-known overall representations of the history of Bavaria .

He was a member of the Catholic student association KBSt.V. Rhaetia Munich . In 1962 he received the Bavarian Poet Thaler , and in 1969 the Bavarian Order of Merit . His grave is in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit . Hubensteiner was married to Erna Hubensteiner (1933–2013).

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Books

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literature

  • Herbert Schindler : The Mount of Olives from St. Florian am Inn . Benno Hubensteiner in memory. In: Blickpunkt. Culture magazine Upper Austria. Volume 40, 1990, No. 4, pp. 22-27.
  • Georg Lohmeier : In memoriam Benno Hubensteiner. Manuscript. Bayer. Rundfunk, Land und Menschen, Munich 1990.
  • Wolfgang Johannes Bekh : Benno Hubensteiner. In: The Turmschreiber Jubilee Calendar 1995. Volume 13, Pfaffenhofen 1994, pp. 192–198.
  • Wolfgang Johannes Bekh: There is no rest for the human heart but standing still. Benno Hubensteiner (1924–1985). In: Wolfgang Johannes Bekh: From the happiness of memory. (= Publications of the Sankt Michaelsbundes Volume 7). Munich 2000, ISBN 3-920821-16-5 , pp. 155-165.
  • Florian Trenner:  HUBENSTEINER, Benno. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 677-682.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see photo of the grave at Bayern-Kultur.de , accessed July 17, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hubensteiner, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Gosseltshausen
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1985
Place of death Munich