Dieter Pohl (local history researcher)

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Dieter Pohl (born March 1, 1934 in Hirschberg , Lower Silesia Province ; † August 15, 2020 in Cologne ) was a German local researcher and engineer .

Life

Youth and education

After the expulsion in 1946, the family came to a village south of Bremen. Dieter Pohl first attended secondary school in the small town of Syke and, from 1951, a high school in Bremen, which he graduated from high school in 1954 . He then studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University with a degree in engineering (1962). After twelve years in industry, he became a Dr.-Ing. PhD .

Professional activities

After ten years as a development engineer in the Philips Group in Germany and the Netherlands, he became head of department in the automotive test technology division of Robert Bosch GmbH in 1973 . In 1977 he became an authorized signatory and manager of the development department in the Bosch television systems division , and from 1987 until his retirement in 1994 he was a department director ( Vice President ) and coordinator for research and development policy projects of the Bosch group in Bonn and Brussels . In this function, he was also a member of the directorate of the EU project EUREKA 95 for the development and introduction of high definition television in Europe, which after a technically successful completion was no longer used due to the departure of Great Britain.

Genealogy and cultural-historical research

At the same time his interests in genealogy and Silesian local history developed, which began in 1973 with the research of his ancestors in Niederschwedeldorf in the county of Glatz (since 1945 Szalejów Dolny ). From 1981 he began with the comprehensive task of ascertaining all the remaining German church registers of the County of Glatz (approx. 1300 copies), which were not only in the parishes there, but also in the Wroclaw State Archives ( Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu ) and in the Archbishopric Diocesan Archives in Wroclaw ( Archiwum Archdiecezjalne we Wrocławiu ) are available. As a result, he brought the volume The Church Books of County Glatz 1996 to print.

In 1986 he founded the genealogically oriented research group Grafschaft Glatz (FGG), which he headed until 2001. In 2001 he founded the working group Grafschaft Glatz - Culture and History (AGG), which is culturally and ecclesiastically oriented, and its annual conferences were held in Münster. After his 80th birthday, Pohl handed over the management of the AGG on 26/27. April 2014 to Klaus Huebner. At the time, the group had more than 60 members, including nine active or retired professors. Under Pohl's leadership, the AGG published thirteen issues of the AGG-Mitteilungen from 2002 to 2014; since issue 14 (2015) Prof. Dr. Klaus Huebner, Mettmann, the publication.

He also published the local chronicles of the Lewin pastor Joseph Kögler (5 volumes), wrote a bibliography and more than 50 cultural-historical works on the County of Glatz and thus made a significant contribution to the preservation of its cultural heritage.

Memberships and honors

From 1976 to 1995 Dieter Pohl was a member of the Television and Cinema Engineering Society (FKTG) and from 1979 to 1987 its second chairman.

Pohl was a member of the Association of Historians in Germany and a full member of the Historical Commission for Silesia , a member of the Association for the History of Silesia and a member of the Board of Trustees and the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Silesian Cultural Works Foundation .

In 2004 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his services as an honorary historical researcher in the County of Glatz .

Publications (selection)

  • Grafschaft Glatz (Silesia): The Kögler Collection in the Archbishop's Diocesan Archives in Breslau , Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-927830-17-8
  • The county of Glatz (Silesia) , Bund der Vertrieben, Kulturreferat, Bonn 1996, 1st edition, as of December 1, 1996, ISBN 3-925103-83-X
  • The parish registers of the County of Glatz (Silesia): the holdings 1937 and 1997 , Lorsch 1996, ISBN 3-927830-14-3
  • The deanery archive of the Archbishop's General Vicariate of the County of Glatz: inventory 1994 , Lorsch 1995, ISBN 3-927830-13-5
  • The County of Glatz (Silesia) in representations and sources: an expanded bibliography , Modautal 1995, 1st edition, ISBN 3-927830-10-0
  • as editor and editor: List of sources : Grafschaft Glatz , Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostdeutscher Familienforscher / Forschungsgruppe Grafschaft Glatz, Modautal, ISSN  0937-2652
  • as author and editor Die Chroniken der Grafschaft Glatz / Joseph Kögler , Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-927830-19-4
  • as editor and editor: List of sources - the Grafschaft Glatz and its neighboring areas as well as overarching topics , Working Group of East German Family Researchers / Research Group Grafschaft Glatz, Modautal, ISSN  0937-2652
  • as editor and editor: Handbook for Grafschaft Glatzer Familienforscher: Research Aids , Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostdeutscher Familienforscher / Forschungsgruppe Grafschaft Glatz, Modautal, basic work as at 9/1989, ISBN 3-927830-00-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Arno Herzig: Glaciographia Nova: Festschrift for Dieter Pohl , S. 12f.
  3. ↑ Each issue contains between five and ten articles. Issue 19 (2020) lists a complete table of contents of all articles published since 2002.
  4. ↑ Schlesischer Kulturspiegel 1/2004; Download PDF.

literature

Arno Herzig : Glaciographia Nova: Festschrift for Dieter Pohl . 1st edition. DOBU, Wiss. Publication documentation and book, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-934632-05-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg , Province of Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 2020
Place of death Cologne