Friedrich Hub

Friedrich Hub (born May 26, 1890 in Karlsruhe , † November 6, 1985 in Mannheim ) was a teacher and local researcher . Above all , he did a great job researching the history of Ehrstädt and Neuhaus Castle , for which he was made an honorary citizen of the large district town of Sinsheim in 1975 . In Ehrstädt, where he is also buried, a street was named after him.

Life

He was born in Karlsruhe. One of his ancestors was a court farmer for the Counts of Degenfeld at the Eulenhof near Ehrstädt in the 18th century . Friedrich Hub embarked on a teaching career and was most recently active as a senior teacher. At the goldsmith's school in Pforzheim , where he also taught, he met the senior student councilor Martin Stähle, who came from Ehrstädt and had already started a chronicle of the place. After Stahl's death in 1957, the Ehrstadt mayor Schneider and the local pastor Ertz Hub asked for the chronicle to be continued in the Kraichgau, which had otherwise not been dealt with in terms of local history . Hub spent ten years sifting through all accessible sources and in 1967 was able to publish his 536-page publication Ehrstädt und Schloß Neuhaus - History of a Kraichgaudorf and its local rule based on old documents and files . Even without ever having lived there, he remained on friendly terms with the Kraichgau town throughout his life.

Hub died in 1985 at the age of 95 in Mannheim, where his son worked. He and his wife were buried in Ehrstädt.

Appreciation

In 1975 he was made an honorary citizen of Sinsheim, where Ehrstädt was incorporated in 1971, for his services to research into the history of Ehrstädt, Schloss Neuhaus and the local rule as well as the transcription of numerous documents. A street in Ehrstädt was also named after him.

literature

• Michael Ertz: Friedrich Hub (1890–1985). Chronicler of Ehrstädt and Neuhaus Castle. An obituary , in: Kraichgau 10, 1987, p. 23f.