Edmund Kiehnle

Edmund Kiehnle (born April 27, 1924 - † February 13, 2014 ) was the city ​​architect and city ​​archivist in Eppingen and wrote numerous local history writings. He was one of the founders of several home and sports clubs.

Life

After attending primary and secondary schools in Eppingen and graduating from high school in Sinsheim , he was drafted into military service. His arm and leg had to be amputated after being seriously injured in the war . After the end of the war, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and then worked in the construction department of the Sinsheim district office. In 1950 he moved to Eppingen as a town builder, where he made outstanding contributions to the renovation and maintenance of historic half-timbered buildings . From 1956 he belonged to the international working group for house research. In 1970 he moved to the Eppingen City Archives , which he headed until his retirement.

He was active in the preservation of local heritage and monuments and in 1951 revived the Eppingen local group of the Badische Heimat , from which shortly afterwards the Heimatfreunde Eppingen emerged , whose business he ran from 1972 to 1977. In 1955 he set up the Eppinger Heimatstube in the Old University , which he expanded into a local museum in 1959. He was a member of the local history working group of the Sinsheim district , from which the Kraichgau homeland association emerged in 1972 . He also belonged to the Eppinger Verkehrsverein from 1950 and in 1981 initiated the re-establishment of the Eppinger Handels- und Gewerbeverein.

Despite his severe disability from the war, he was also involved in sports. In 1945/46 he was the district representative of the South German Football Association, headed the boxing department of VfB Eppingen from 1948 to 1950 and was a member of the board of directors of the Eppingen motorsport club from 1952 to 1958. In 1956 he was a co-founder of the Eppingen tennis club and chaired it himself until 1972 before he was made honorary chairman. In 1970 he founded the Eppingen disabled sports group, which he headed for over 30 years.

For his work in the field of local research he was awarded the medal for services to the home of Baden-Württemberg in 1985. In 1986 he received a certificate of honor from the state of Baden-Württemberg for his services to local associations.

Fonts

• Eppingen and its half-timbered buildings. Heimatfreunde Eppingen , Eppingen 2003, ISBN 3-930172-16-X .
• The Kraichgau town of Eppingen. Once a Burgum, today a modern school and administration center. Reprint from Badische Heimat , 55th year, issue 3 (September 1975), Mayor's office of the city of Eppingen / Landesverein Badische Heimat e. V. Mayor's Office, Eppingen 1981.
• Eppingen. A tour of the old town. Tourist office Eppingen e. V., Eppingen 1981
• Eppingen in old views. European Library, Zaltbommel 1977.
• with Klaus Zöller u. a .: Heimatbuch Rohrbach AG, City of Eppingen. Working group Heimattag 1973, Eppingen-Rohrbach 1973
• (Co-author): Volksbank. 100 years Volksbank Eppingen eGmbH. 1867-1967. Volksbank Eppingen, Eppingen (1967).

In addition to his extensive writings, Kiehnle has written over 100 articles for the publications of Heimatfreunde Eppingen , the Heimatverein Kraichgau , the Historisches Verein Heilbronn as well as for the Eppinger Zeitung and the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung .

Web links

• Literature by and about Edmund Kiehnle in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

• Great commitment to the homeland: City archivist i. R. Edmund Kiehnle celebrated his 70th birthday , in: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of April 27, 1994 and in: Badische Heimat, Heft 4/1994, pp. 659f.
• Bernd Röcker: City archivist i. R. Edmund Kiehnle on his 75th birthday . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 16, 1999, p. 497/98.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Eppingen tennis club celebrated its birthday ( memento from June 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )