Dieter Peters

This article deals with local history researcher Dieter Peters. For the ornithologist and paleontologist see Dieter Stefan Peters .

Dieter Peters (* 1946/1947) is a local researcher from Aachen . Since the end of the 1980s, the former administrative officer at Deutsche Post AG has been researching Jewish cemeteries . Numerous Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine-Westphalia , Hesse , Brandenburg , Schleswig-Holstein , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Saxony he has documentation created and photographed equipped. Peters published his research results in various specialist organs or through a self-publisher. His private archive now includes around 80,000 names and biographies from more than 800 cemeteries as well as 10,000 photos of tombstones and cemeteries and around 7,500 references.

Since 1994, Peters has been working as a freelancer in the sense of a cemetery officer of the regional association of Jewish communities in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Works

• Boslar. A village in the Jülich region. [Ed .: Jülich History Association], Jülich History Association, Jülich [1993], ISBN 3-9801876-2-4
• Land between the Rhine and Maas. Genealogical data from Jewish cemeteries in the former Rhine province and in the Dutch province of Limburg. Kleve 1993
• The Jewish cemetery in Geilenkirchen. Typescript. [Aachen 1995]
• The Jewish cemetery in Neu-Garzweiler. Typescript. [Aachen 1995]
• Genealogical data of Jewish cemeteries in the Bad Kreuznach district. Aachen 1996
• The Jewish cemetery in Bielefeld. Aachen 1996 (Computer printout from February 2002 in the Heidelberg Central Archives)
• The old Jewish cemetery in Friedrichstadt an der Eider. Typescript. Aachen 1997
• The Jewish cemetery in Kleve. Franz-Matenaar Archive, Klevischer Heimat- und Verkehrsverein e. V. (Ed.), Kleve 1999 [Computer printout from February 2002 in the Heidelberg Central Archives]
• The Jewish cemetery in Uedem. (= Jewish cemeteries on the Lower Rhine), vol. 1, Franz-Matenaar-Archiv, Kleve, in the Klevisches Heimat- und Verkehrsverein, e. V. (Ed.), September 1999 [Computer printout from February 2002 in the Heidelberg Central Archives] (therein: Alter Friedhof Uedem, Neuer Friedhof Uedem)
• The Jewish cemetery in Aachen, Lütticher Strasse. Documentation of the gravestones and evaluation of the burial register 1829 - 2000. (= Jewish cemeteries in the Rhineland, vol. 1), Aachen 1997/2001, 2nd, revised edition [computer printout from February 2002 in the Heidelberg central archive ]
• The Jewish cemetery in Jülich. Aachen 2001
• The Jewish cemetery in Sonsbeck. Aachen 2002
• Jewish cemeteries in the Viersen district. In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Viersen , 53rd episode, Kempen 2002, pp. 77–94
• The Jewish cemetery in Brüggen Hochstrasse. (Old graveyard). Aachen 2003 (= Jewish cemeteries on the Lower Rhine, vol. 6), 14 pages [computer printout available in the central archive]
• The Jewish cemetery in Kreuzau-Drove. In: Yearbook of the district of Düren 2004, pp. 119–121.
• Jewish graves in the cemetery of the Protestant Diakoniewerk in Kropp Aachen 2006

Web links

• Back to the roots of Jewish family history via gravestones: The merits of Dieter Peters by Hans-Dieter Arntz
• Peters. In: Description of the documentation projects. North Rhine-Westphalia
• Peters. In: Description of the documentation projects - documentation of cemeteries in several federal states
• Peters 1993. In: Bibliography North Rhine-Westphalia
• Peters (1995-2004). In: Bibliography North Rhine-Westphalia
• Dieter Peters, Aachen: Publications (PDF; 132 kB)