Dieter Schäfer

Dieter Schäfer (born July 7, 1927 ) is a German historian .

Life

Schäfer spent his youth and school days in Darmstadt. In 1943 he became an air force helper and in 1945 he served in the war in Hungary and Austria, 5th PD. , 1st DG. convened. He was slightly wounded in the process. After fleeing from Soviet captivity, he was briefly interned by US troops . After attending a special course for combatants, he graduated from high school in Heppenheim and then studied from 1947 to 1951 at the universities of Mainz, Frankfurt and Würzburg. In 1951 he was promoted to Dr. phil is doing his doctorate .

Since 1951 a total of 42 years in the service of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Aschaffenburg, Hamburg, Bonn, Würzburg). From 1965 - 1993 IHK general manager Würzburg-Schweinfurt. During this term of office, the establishment of the IHK joint training workshops, the establishment of the center for further training in Würzburg, the move to the new IHK area in Zellerau and the preparation for the new IHK area in Schweinfurt.

He represented the Würzburg Chamber of Commerce in several national and international bodies and was a. a. Chairman of the DIHT Information Committee and one of the three German members of the BICC, the Chamber of Commerce office of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

He became known to a wider audience through several television films, the monthly television discussion “Treffpunkt Freimann” (1964–1992, 140 times) and through numerous lectures and publications, plus over twenty audio images, most of them for NDR and BR. From 1959 to 1962, in addition to his work at the Chamber of Commerce, he was linked to the NDR through a consulting contract. The Bavarian Authority for New Media he was a member since its foundation as a Media Council and headed for many years the television committee.

He was co-editor or member of the editorial board of several magazines such as the magazine for progressive entrepreneurship "Junge Wirtschaft", Bonn, the "Tradition", magazine for corporate history, Cologne, the " Wirtschaftsdienst " of the HWWA Hamburg and "Würzburg-heute". For the Federal Press Office he was on seven lecture tours across the USA and Canada.

At the University of Würzburg he was a lecturer for economic geography and since 1977 honorary professor. In the university federation he worked as a secretary for many years.

Schäfer was a member of the supervisory board of Preh Werke in Bad Neustadt, FAG Kugelfischer Schweinfurt KGaA and Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH Lohr.

After reunification, as chairman of the supervisory board of Simson Fahrzeugwerke GmbH Suhl and Elektrogerätewerk AG Suhl, he took on joint responsibility for the privatization of the two former combines and became the founding sponsor of the re-established Chamber of Commerce and Industry for South Thuringia in Suhl and founding representative of the Suhl Rotary Clubs. The Rotarians of RC Würzburg elected him twice as their president.

After his retirement, he advised the IHK Nordmoldavien as a senior expert on developing further training and setting up a start-up center in Baltsi based on the Würzburg model.

In retirement he lives secluded in Würzburg and researches and publishes as a historical author.

Schäfer has been with Gudrun, geb. Cropp, married with three children.

Awards

• Federal Republic of Germany: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1985) and Great Federal Cross of Merit (2002)
• Republic of Austria: Great Silver Decoration
• Bavaria: Bavarian Order of Merit , State Medal for special merits in business
• Tuscany: Cavaliere del ' Ordine di San Giuseppe
• USA: Honory Houstonian, St. Mary's University, San Antonio Texas, Award of Appreciation, VII US Corps Award Peace through friendship, Lt. Col. of the Militia of the State of Georgia
• Medal of Merit from the University of Würzburg: Bene Merenti in gold
• City of Würzburg: Imprint of the city seal in bronze and silver
• Bavarian Broadcasting: Gold Medal of Merit
• IHK Würzburg- Schweinfurt: Golden Ring of Honor
• German Chamber of Commerce in Austria: Great medal for services to German-Austrian economic relations
• Rotary International: Paul Harris Fellow + 1 sapphire
• Corresponding member of the Academy for Spatial Research Hanover
• Elective member of the Society for Franconian History
• Honorary member of the University of Würzburg

Publications

• Prince Emil of Hessen-Darmstadt in the German Revolution, sources and research on Hessian history 17, Darmstadt 1954
• The German Industry and Trade Day in its first hundred years, Bonn 1962
• The German Industry and Trade Day as the political forum of the Weimar Republic, HWWA, Hamburg 1966
• The way of industry in Lower Franconia, Stürtz, Würzburg 1970
• Grand Duke Ferdinand of Würzburg, Echter, Würzburg 1985
• Ferdinand of Austria, Grand Duke of Würzburg, Styria, Graz, Vienna, Cologne, 1988
• Rise, Fall and Glory of Pankraz von Freyberg , ECORA, Prien 1996
• Würzburg's departure into modern times, Echter, Würzburg 1997
• Würzburg, city and citizen in 175 years of history of the Städtische Sparkasse, Stuttgart 1998
• Friends and sponsors of the University of Würzburg, 80 years of the Society for the Advancement of Science at the University of Würzburg, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001
• History of Würzburg, CH Beck, Munich 2003

In addition to more than a dozen articles on compilations, his list of publications includes over 200 other titles.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library