Edwin Ernst Weber

Edwin Ernst Weber (born July 7, 1958 in Rottweil ) is a German historian and archivist . He is the cultural advisor and archive director of the district of Sigmaringen , head of the culture and archive department there, as well as a board member and managing director of the Upper Swabian Society for History and Culture .

Life

Growing up in Dunningen , Weber passed his Abitur in 1977 at the Leibniz Gymnasium in Rottweil. After an editorial traineeship at the Schwarzwälder Bote in Oberndorf am Neckar and a voluntary social peace service with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste in France, he studied history, political science and folklore at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and at the Free University of Berlin since 1981 . In 1990/91 he did his doctorate at the University of Freiburg with a study on peasant resistance in the territory of the Swabian imperial city of Rottweil in the 17th and 18th centuries. From 1989 to 1991 he trained as a scientific archivist at the General State Archives in Karlsruhe , at the Marburg Archive School and at the Federal Archives in Koblenz . In 1991 he passed the state examination for the higher archival service. He has been employed by the Sigmaringen district since 1991. In 2017 he was awarded the Friedrich Schiedel Science Prize for the History of Upper Swabia .

Weber is married and has one son. He lives in Inzigkofen .

Memberships

• Member of the board and managing director of the Upper Swabian Society for History and Culture
• Board member and managing director of the Kulturforum Landkreis Sigmaringen eV
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Hohenzoller Historical Society

Fonts

Monographs

• Urban rule and peasant subjects in everyday life and conflict. The imperial city of Rottweil and its landscape from the 30 Years War to Mediatization , Rottweil 1992, ISBN 3-928873-00-8
• with Christoph Schmider: Local and church archive maintenance in rural areas. History, problems and perspectives using the case study of the parish and parish archives Kreenheinstetten , Sigmaringen 1997, ISBN 3-931634-01-9

Editorships (selection)

• With Stefan Uhl: Hornstein. Contributions to the history of the castle, family and rule , Sigmaringen 1997.
• Ostrach 1799. The battle, the place, the commemoration , Ostrach 1999.
• Sigmaringendorf. Contributions to the history of a Hohenzollern farming and industrial town , Sigmaringendorf 2002.
• Renacity and genius. Meßkirch and the Baden Lake District between 1848/49 and the Kulturkampf , Konstanz 2003.
• Monasteries in the Sigmaringen district, past and present , Lindenberg 2005.
• With Dirk Gaerte: The three-country district of Sigmaringen. A guide to nature, economy, history and culture , Meßkirch 2007.
• Victim of injustice. Stigmatization, persecution and extermination of opponents by the Nazi tyranny using case studies from Upper Swabia , Stuttgart 2009.
• With Casimir Bumiller and Bernhard Rüth: patrons, collectors, chroniclers. The Counts of Zimmer and the culture of the Swabian nobility , Stuttgart 2012.
• The art collection of the district of Sigmaringen , Meßkirch 2014.
• With Andreas Gabelmann: Art of Upper Swabia, 20th Century. Modernism and Faith. Religious art , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2014.
• Histoire de la vie de la Princesse Amélie Zéphyrine de Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, née Princesse de Salm-Kyrburg, ma mère, écrite par elle-même, reçue après sa mort. Life story of Princess Amalie Zephyrine von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, née Princess von Salm-Kyrburg, my mother, written by her in her own hand, received after her death 1760-1831. Edited by Christina Egli with the assistance of Doris Muth, Eggingen 2015.
• The prehistory and early history in the district of Sigmaringen , Meßkirch 2016.
• Literature in Upper Swabia since 1945 , Meßkirch 2017.
• With Sigrid Hirbodian and Rolf Kießling: Dominion, Market and Environment. Economy in Upper Swabia 1300-1600 , Stuttgart 2019.
• With Doris Astrid Muth: Architecture in the Sigmaringen district. From the Gothic to the Present , Messkirch 2020.

Web links

• Short biography at Gmeiner Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landkreis Sigmaringen, Department of Culture and Archives ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Archive School Marburg
3. ↑ Mark Vonberg: lane Prize 2004 for Edwin Ernst Weber . In: Meßkircher Heimathefte 12 (2004), pp. 166–167.
4. ^ Friedrich-Schiedel-Science Prize for the History of Upper Swabia. Speeches at the tenth award ceremony to Dr. Edwin Ernst Weber on October 12, 2017 in the Renaissance ballroom of Messkirch Castle , Ravensburg 2019.
5. ↑ Organs of the Oberschwaben Society ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.