Fritz Bilz

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Portrait Fritz Bilz (2012)

Fritz Bilz (* 1944 in Riedenburg ) is a German historian and publicist . He has also been working as a painter and graphic artist since 1985.

Life

Fritz Bilz has lived in his parents' house in the Cologne suburb of Brück since 1945 . He grew up as a working class child, for whom it was not made easy at the Mülheim high school. He graduated from secondary school, did an apprenticeship and was able to go to engineering school. He worked in various professions, including packer, construction worker, civil engineer, secondary school teacher, union secretary , branch manager, historian and publicist. It was not until the late 1980s that he discovered his love for writing and wrote his first essays on historical issues as part of the local history workshop in Cologne-Brück . He deepened this by studying. In 1999 he completed his studies in Middle and New History at the University of Cologne with a master's degree . In 2007 he was there with Wolfgang Schieder with the work Between Chapel and Factory. The social history of Kalks from 1850 to 1910 doctorate. The social and cultural-historical perspective deals with today's Cologne district of Kalk, which was an independent city until 1910.

Since 1989, in addition to his monographs, more than 60 essays and miscells can be listed, which mainly represent the result of Fritz Bilz's historical research. The focus of this research is on historical facts from the region, in particular with the main focus on everyday history, the history of workers and National Socialism . Bilz comes from the history workshops movement that emerged as part of the New Social Movements in the early 1980s. Committed to researching and presenting regional history from below , he was a co-founder of the history workshop in Cologne-Brück and the history workshop in Cologne-Kalk, and passed on his knowledge to interested parties through relevant publications and a variety of tours.

In addition, since 1988 Bilz has been conveying history in an understandable way in the Cologne suburbs of Brück, Kalk and Mülheim as well as the city center as part of over 200 historical tours . Since 2002 he has also been guiding primary school and secondary school children through the suburbs of Brück and Kalk.

Awards

In 1998 he was awarded the Rhineland Taler for his "services to landscape culture" . In 2015, Bilz was awarded the CologneEngagiert honorary prize by the City of Cologne. In 2016 he received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Bilz Foundation

When Fritz Bilz sifted through her estate after his mother's death, he found previously unknown savings balances and coins worth around half a million DM. As their livelihood seemed secure, the couple decided in 1998 to set up a charitable foundation. Every year, the “Bilz Foundation” honors local and regional institutions that either devote themselves to international understanding, stand up for those persecuted politically, racially or religiously, or against discrimination against minorities. The Bilz Prize is endowed with € 5000 annually.

Previous winners of the Bilz Foundation

  • 1999 Support group for children and young people threatened with deportation , Cologne-Bickendorf
  • 2000 Courage youth club , Cologne-Bickendorf
  • 2001 Agisra eV Cologne
  • In 2002 the prize was not awarded
  • 2003 Campus 15 Lohmar
  • 2004 Public Against Violence eV
  • 2005 Rome eV Cologne
  • 2006 Federal Association for Information and Advice for People Persecuted by Nazism
  • 2007 Förderverein Cologne Refugee Council eV
  • 2008 Allerweltshaus Cologne
  • 2009 Jawne learning and memorial site in the EL-DE-Haus association
  • 2010 Working group for the foreign child eV Cologne
  • 2011 student against right Cologne eV
  • 2012 Research International eV Cologne
  • 2013 Association for the promotion of the city partnership Cologne- Volgograd
  • 2015 Friedensbildungswerk Köln e. V.
  • 2016 IG Keupstrasse Cologne-Mülheim
  • 2017 The Maro Dom Association
  • 2018 Integrationshaus e. V. (Cologne-Kalk)
  • 2019 MIX (Music International Against Xenophobia), a project at the Nelson Mandela School in Cologne-Buchheim
  • 2020 Culture Forum Turkey Germany

Works

  • Work, struggle and tobacco smoke . The Cologne cigar worker Peter Gerhard Röser 1814–1865. Hamburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-88756-030-0 .
  • (together with Beatrix Klein and Klaus Ehlert): “In principle we are in agreement” . 50 years of ÖTV 1964 to 1996, Düsseldorf 1996.
  • Cuts . Change in industrial work in Cologne-Kalk, Cologne 1997, ISBN 978-3-935735-02-5 .
  • (with Klaus Schmidt): That was a hot March time : Revolution in the Rhineland 1848/49, Cologne 1998, ISBN 978-3-89438-153-0 .
  • (with Brigitte Bilz): I was beaten to death this person . Letters from Gestapo detention and concentration camp, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89705-160-5 .
  • Silk weavers in transition . Industry and workers in Mülheim / Rhein from 1848 to 1878, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-88756-031-7 .
  • Between the chapel and the factory . The social history of Kalks from 1850 to 1910, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89498-190-7 .
  • (with Eberhard Becker and Michael Werling ) The old cemetery in Cologne-Kalk past, present and future, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-935735-07-0 .
  • Cologne social history “from below” . Collected essays on everyday history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Michael Klöcker, Rheinlandia-Verlag, Siegburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-938535-60-8 .
  • My friend Jupp . Stories, Schmidt von Schwind, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-932050-29-9 .
  • Unadjusted and unruly . The Cologne carnivalist Karl Küpper 1905–1970, Ed.Kalk, Cologne 2010, ISBN 3-935735-08-1 .
  • Medden us em Levve . RatioBooks, Lohmar 2016, ISBN 978-3-939829-69-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A working-class child leads through Brück , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, March 18, 2013
  2. ↑ www.Fritz-Bilz.de accessed on December 2, 2012
  3. ^ Geschichtswerkstatt Köln-Brück , accessed on December 2, 2012.
  4. ↑ History Workshop Cologne-Kalk , accessed on December 2, 2012.
  5. ↑ Dominic Röltgen: Cologne historian and publicist. Honorary award for Fritz Bilz , Kölnische Rundschau of July 13, 2015, accessed on March 17, 2016
  6. ^ Awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In: press release. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, November 17, 2016, archived from the original on November 18, 2016 ; Retrieved November 18, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Bilz Foundation.Retrieved November 15, 2017
  8. ^ The Parliament, edition of March 2, 2010 "The Benefactors" ( Memento of December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 8, 2016
  9. ↑ Köln International: a city book against racism, anti-Semitism, right-wing extremism, p. 94, accessed online on July 12, 2013
  10. ^ Help for exploited women Kölner Stadtanzeiger, November 5, 2001, accessed on July 12, 2013
  11. ^ Bilz Prize for Campus , Kölner Rundschau, November 5, 2003, accessed on July 12, 2013
  12. ^ Public against violence eV accessed on December 2, 2012
  13. ^ Rom eV Cologne, accessed on December 2, 2012
  14. ↑ federal association information and advice for Nazi persecuted ev, accessed on December 2, 2012
  15. ↑ Friends of the Cologne Refugee Council, accessed on December 2, 2012
  16. ^ Allerweltshaus Cologne , accessed on December 2, 2012.
  17. ^ Jawne Learning and Memorial Site, Cologne, accessed on December 2, 2012
  18. ↑ aak , accessed December 2, 2012.
  19. ↑ Excellent commitment against racism ( Memento from July 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Cologne News, February 8, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2013
  20. ↑ Research International , accessed on December 2, 2012.
  21. ^ Bilz Prize for International Research, accessed on December 31, 2012
  22. ^ Association website with news about the Bilz Prize from November 9, 2013
  23. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau of December 9, 2019: Mülheimer Initiative defends itself against xenophobia. The "MIX" does it, by Dominic Röltgen , accessed on December 10, 2019
  24. ↑ Print edition Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger No. 191 Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Page 28 Cologne - noted (stef)

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personal data
SURNAME Bilz, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Riedenburg