Ernst Wilhelm Wreden

Ernst Wilhelm Wreden (born June 18, 1926 in Moers ; † June 17, 1997 in Friedberg ) was a German fraternity functionary .

Wreden grew up as the son of a civil engineer in Duisburg and received his maturity certificate there in 1944 at the Ovberschule. At the age of 17 he was drafted into the war emergency service in January 1944, volunteered for the Waffen-SS in August 1944 and was taken prisoner by the Americans towards the end of the war and was released in April 1946. In 1947 he made up his Abitur in Homberg . In the denazification process he was classified as politically charged because he had been Hitler Youth leader and member of the Waffen SS, which is why he was initially denied studies. From 1947 he worked as a construction worker. From 1949 he studied history in Heidelberg andBonn , was involved in the re-establishment of the fraternity Allemannia Heidelberg and the umbrella association of the German fraternity (DB) in 1949 . In addition to other full-time and voluntary activities for DB, he became a member of the editorial committee of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter in 1954 and was its editor from 1958 to 1992 . He wrote numerous essays and writings on student history and was the editor of the annual edition of the Society for Fraternity History Research . In 1983 he became a member of the Teutonia Jena fraternity in Berlin . He was awarded the Herman Haupt plaque for services to fraternity research into history . He received the Fabricius Medal from the Convent of German Academic Associations . The German fraternity awarded him the ribbon of honor.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft . Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. . Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 382-383 .
• Wreden, Ernst Wilhelm , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 359-361.