Dieter Wolf (historian)

Dieter Wolf (born April 29, 1956 in Nieder-Wöllstadt ) is a German historian and illustrator with a research focus on Hessian history, especially the local and regional history of the Wetterau . He heads the Museum of the City of Butzbach and the Butzbach City Archives.

Live and act

Dieter Wolf grew up in Nieder-Wöllstadt in the Wetterau and passed his Abitur at the Augustinerschule Friedberg . After studying history, art history, prehistory and early history as well as classical archeology at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen and the Philipps University of Marburg (1975–1983), he became head of the museum and archive of the city of Butzbach in 1988.

After researching cities in Lower Hesse in the Middle Ages, he received his doctorate in 1999 on Melsungen : A small town in the late Middle Ages; Topography, constitution as well as economic and social structure. The dissertation was supervised by Fred Schwind . Since 1972 numerous publications on research into the Wetterau have appeared, in which Wolf often combines historical aspects with aspects of art and architecture.

Wolf has been a member of the Monument Advisory Board of the Lower Monument Protection Authority of the Wetterau District since 1987 and was a member of the board of the Hessian Museum Association from 1994 to 2015. He has been a member of the Hessian Historical Commission in Darmstadt since 1993 , of the Historical Commission for Hesse since 2005 and of the Commission for the History of the Jews in Hesse since 2007 .

He is married and now lives in Offenbach-Bürgel .

Fonts in selection

• (with Bodo Heil): rarities in the city archive. The Butzbach mayor bills from 1371/72. In: Archive news from Hessen . No. 14/2, 2014, pp. 4–10 ( online , PDF; 5.63 MB).
• The holy Sintram of Nieder-Weisel. News about the legend and cult of an (almost) forgotten martyr. A work report. In: Yearbook of the Hessian Church History Association. Vol. 59, 2008, topic volume: Johanniter in Hessen. 800 years of diaconal mandate [Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Hessian Cooperative of the Order of St. John], pp. 65–113 ( online , PDF; 1.07 MB).
• (with Hanno Müller, Dieter Bertram, Friedrich Damrath): Jewish families in Butzbach and its districts (= Butzbach family book. Volume V. History Association for Butzbach and the Surrounding Area , Butzbach 2007, ISBN 3-9809778-4-6 ).
• Butzbach on historical illustrations, maps and plans from the 16th to 19th centuries. In: Wetterau history sheets. Vol. 54, 2005, pp. 93-387.
• The Stump Church (so-called Marcellinus Chapel) near Burkhards. Department of Archeology and Paleontology in the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-89822-162-7 .
• Melsungen. A small town in the late Middle Ages. Topography, constitution, economic and social structure. 3 volumes. Afra-Verlag, Butzbach 2003, ISBN 3-932079-74-4 , ISBN 3-932079-75-2 , ISBN 3-932079-76-0 .
• (Ed.): Old walls, myths and people - on the trail of the Celts. Cultural and historical circular hiking trail, Hausberg and Brülerberg near Butzbach, archeology, history and nature. 3. Edition. Friends and Sponsors Museum Butzbach, Butzbach 2003.
• On the local history of Petterweil in the Middle Ages. Petterweil 2001.
• (with Klaus Peter Decker): Terra Imperii - Wetterau and Vogelsberg. Sparkasse Wetterau, Friedberg 2001.
• (with Karl Wilhelm Rosenow): Chronicle of Ostheim near Butzbach. In: Kelterei Müller KG, Butzbach-Ostheim (Hrsg.): Ostheimer Chronik. 300 years of the town hall 1697–1997, 125 years of the family-owned cider press from 1873–1998. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 37-116.
• Additional contributions to the local history of Ostheim. In: Kelterei Müller KG, Butzbach-Ostheim (Hrsg.): Ostheimer Chronik. 300 years of the town hall 1697–1997, 125 years of the family-owned cider press from 1873–1998. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 117-152.
• On the history of Munzenberg in the Middle Ages. In: Petra Müller, Uwe Müller (Hrsg.): Münzenberg, home in the shadow of the castle. 750 years of Munzenberg town charter, 1245–1995. 2nd Edition. Magistrat der Stadt Munzenberg , Munzenberg 1996, ISBN 3-9804269-0-4 , pp. 81–158.
• For the medieval fortification of villages and spots in the Wetterau - with special consideration of Rodheim vor der Höhe . In: Rodheimer Hefte. No. 2, 1996, pp. 25-83.
• On the church history of Butzbach in the pre-Reformation period. In: Peter Fleck, Dieter Wolf (ed.): Catholic life in Butzbach in the Middle Ages and modern times. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Catholic parish of Butzbach. Butzbach 1994, pp. 11-70, footnotes pp. 207-217.
• The parish conditions in Rodheim vor der Höhe and the surrounding area in the Middle Ages from a historical perspective. (Pp. 1-72). Appendix I: The Rodheim parish book from the second half of the 15th century. (Pp. 267-294). Appendix II: Pastor in Rodheim until the Reformation. (Pp. 295-309). Appendix III: The Lichen Chaplain and Early Messerei Rodheim. (Pp. 311-318). In: Ulrich Schütte (Ed.): The old parish church of Rodheim in front of the height. Contributions to the history and architecture of a rural parish church in the Wetterau. [Rosbach vd H. 1992], pp. 1-72, 267-318.
• From the building history of the old parish church (Griedel). In: Dieter Bertram (ed.): The church in Griedel. History of the parish and its church. Butzbach 1986, pp. 65-75.
• On the history of the parish of St. Peter (Griedel). In: Dieter Bertram (ed.): The church in Griedel. History of the parish and its church. Butzbach 1986, pp. 11-28.
• (Arrangement and ed.): From the story of a Wetterau village. 1200 years of farmhouse 778–1978. Friedberg Farmers' Home 1978
• From the old Nieder-Wöllstadt. 2nd Edition. Wolf, Wöllstadt 1977.
• Acts of war in the Imperial War against Philip the Elder Ä. von Falkenstein 1364-1366. In: Wetterau history sheets. 23, 1974, p. 21 f.
• Ockstadt in the Middle Ages. An attempt at an overview . In: From Hucchenstat to Ockstadt. 1200 years of history of a village . Friedberg 2017, pp. 79–152.

Web links

• Publications by Dieter Wolf in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii