Erich Schultze-Gebhardt

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Erich Schultze-Gebhardt (* September 2, 1929 ; † September 21, 2014 ) was a German local historian and volunteer home and monument conservationist in Sprockhövel , North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Before he became a primary and secondary school teacher, Erich Schultze-Gebhardt initially worked as a farmer and trained as a textile engineer . As early as 1951, he discovered ripple marks in the rock in a quarry near Sprockhövel Weuste-Hobeuken and recognized their geological significance as a relic of a fossil sea bed from the Carboniferous . They are recognized as a high-level geotope .

He was a founding member of the home and history association Sprockhövel, the local Agenda 21 Sprockhövel and the BUND group Sprockhövel. In addition, he initially worked as a local home keeper of the Sprockhövel district of Gennebreck and from the end of 2002 as the official honorary monument protection officer of the city of Sprockhövel. He presented his knowledge of local history on his guided excursions in the Sprockhöveler area, as well as in several local history books and articles.

Erich Schultze-Gebhardt was married to Waldtraut Schultze-Gebhard (* 1933 in Wuppertal - Elberfeld ; † 2010). They lived in the Sprockhövel district of Auf dem Schee , where he set up a private local history museum in his barn and in the garden, in which local history finds from the Sprockhövel area were presented to the public.

Awards

  • 2009: Culture Prize of the Sprockhöveler CDU

Fonts

  • Settlement and industry between the Ruhr and Wupper . Contribution to the cultural geography of the Niederbergisch-Märkisch hill country in the area of ​​the city of Sprockhövel. In: Series of publications of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Sprockhövel eV Band 2 . Local history and history association Sprockhövel, Sprockhövel 1980.
  • When Sprockhövel was on the equator . a natural monument in the Weuste Haßlinghausen-Hobeuken quarry; a contribution to geology in the city of Sprockhövel; with an excursus on the art of stonemasonry. In: Series of publications of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Sprockhövel eV Band 9 . Local history and history association Sprockhövel, Sprockhövel 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022854-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Culture award for 50 years of commitment , article in the Westdeutsche Zeitung of September 17, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Schultze-Gebhardt, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local historian and volunteer home and monument conservator in Sprockhövel, North Rhine-Westphalia
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1929
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2014