Franz Brückner (local history researcher)

Franz Brückner (born April 10, 1896 in Dessau ; † October 16, 1982 ibid) was a German educator and local researcher in Dessau.

Life

He was born into a family of musicians, his father was bassist at the Ducal Court Theater and organist for the Jewish community in Dessau. After four years of preschool - at that time the prerequisite for higher schooling - Brückner attended the humanistic Friedrichsgymnasium in Dessau and passed the Abitur in 1916. From 1917 he was deployed as a soldier in a railway battalion on the Western Front. In 1919 he left the army and enrolled at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. In 1922 Brückner passed his state examination as a teacher of Latin, history and geography and received his doctorate in the summer of the same year. phil. From December 1923 he worked as a trainee lawyer and assessor at schools in Bernburg and Köthen , before he was appointed to the faculty in his home town at the end of 1929. Brückner experienced the end of the Second World War on an estate near Güsten , where he taught four classes in parallel in an emergency school. At the end of the war, he returned to his heavily destroyed hometown, participated in the clearing up work of the Philanthropinum in Palais Dietrich in April 1945 and worked there as a teacher of Latin and geography in the following years. Until 1954 he held the position of deputy director. Franz Brückner died on October 16, 1982, highly respected and honored in Dessau.

Resting place in Dessau

Research work

As early as the early twenties he was engaged in first local history research; he compiled chronicles for the Dessau country school home Besenitz and the communities of Reuden / Anhalt and Hinsdorf . When he retired in 1961, it was a particularly productive time for Brückner. If he had previously done studies in the Landesarchiv Oranienbaum , he now began to sift through the extensive holdings of the central archive for the history of Anhalt and to evaluate them scientifically. So he worked out detailed lists of houses for all properties in Dessau's old town from the 16th to the 20th century.

The house book

From this fund he developed the "House Book of the City of Dessau" from the first half of the sixties - a nationwide unique series of urban historical research. In the 25 volumes, not only the personal fates of ordinary citizens and their everyday lives, but also aspects of economic and social-historical developments are presented. For this he was honored in 1981 with the Wilhelm Müller Art Prize of the city of Dessau. Until his death in 1982 Brückner personally supervised the publication of the "House Book". In order to preserve the posthumous continuation of his research, his scientific legacy was handed over to the Dessau City Archives, which has made publication possible since volumes 11 to 25 (1983 to 1997) were issued. The city archive also worked out the register volume, which was published in 2002. To this day, it is still possible to inspect and conduct further research on the history of Dessau.

literature

• Grossert, Werner: Dr. Franz Brückner on his 80th birthday. In: Dessau Calendar 1976, 20th year, publisher: Council of the City of Dessau, City Archives, and District Commission "Nature and Friends of Home", pp. 25 to 27
• Dr. Franz Brückner †. In: Häuserbuch der Stadt Dessau, issue 11, editor: Council of the City of Dessau, City Archives, p. 918f.
• Hans-Joachim Mellies: People and personalities, explorations on the Dessau cemetery III , ISBN 978-3-945927-01-4 .

Web links

• The history of the city of Dessau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the history of the Landesarchiv Oranienbaum, Ross, Marlies, 1872–1997. From the Anhalt State Archives Zerbst to the State Archives Oranienbaum. In: Communications from the Anhaltische Landeskunde association, 6th year, Hoppe, Günther (ed.), Köthen, 1997