Fritz Reuter (historian)

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Fritz Reuter (born November 4, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian and was director of the Worms City Archives from 1964 to 1996 and founder of the Jewish Museum Worms .

Life

Reuter completed a musical training as a bassoonist and double bassist as well as an apprenticeship as a typesetter. He then made up his Abitur at the Mannheim Evening Academy and studied German and History at the University of Mainz , where he also received his doctorate in 1992 with the work of Karl Hofmann and “the new Worms”: Urban Development and Municipal Building 1882–1918 .

From 1964 to 1996 he worked at the Worms City Archives, most recently as archive director. In 1982 he also founded the Jewish Museum in the new archive building in the Rashi House , which he inaugurated and organized . As managing director of the Worms Antiquities Association , Reuter was co-editor of the yearbook Der Wormsgau .

Reuter's research focus is on the history of the city of Worms and its surrounding area as well as archives . Above all, he devotes himself to coming to terms with the history of Jewish life from the Middle Ages to modern times, for which he was awarded the Obermayer German Jewish History Award in 2008 .

For his services to the history of the city of Worms, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and in 1996 the ring of honor of the city of Worms. He is also the honorary chairman of the Worms Antiquities Association.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Worms in old postcards (1979)
  • Luther Room in the Museum of the City of Worms (= picture booklet of the Museum of the City 5 ) (1983)
  • WARMAISA. 1000 years of Jews in Worms (1987)
  • Worms - then, yesterday and today. A cityscape in the course of the last 100 years (1985)
  • Worms. Photographed by Klaus Baranenko (1985)
  • Worms and the Wonnegau. With photographic impressions by Klaus Baranenko (1987)
  • Peter and Johann Friedrich Hamman. Hand drawings by Worms from the time before and after the city was destroyed in the "War of the Palatinate Succession" in 1689 (1989)
  • Jewish worms. Rashi House and Judengasse. Worms 1992 (shorter version: The Jewish Museum Raschi-Haus in Worms , in: Der Wormsgau 15, 1987/91, pp. 10-29)
  • with Hans-Jörg Koch (Ed.): Hügelland and Wonnegau (1992)
  • Jewish worms. Raschi House and Judengasse (1992)
  • Worms between imperial city and industrial city 1800–1882 (1993)
  • Reichstag city of Worms. Maximilian I 1495, Martin Luther 1521 (1995)
  • Worms - The City of the Nibelungs (1995)
  • Worms on the Rhine. Historical city walks for locals and guests (2000)
  • with Ulrike Schäfer (Ed.): Miracle stories from Warmaisa. Juspa Schammes, his Ma'asseh nissim and the Jewish Worms in the 17th century (2005)

Essays

  • Franz Rorbach, worker at the Dominican monastery in Worms in the 15th century. in: Der Wormsgau 8 (1967-1969), pp. 72-73.
  • Johann Philipp Bandel (1785–1866). A Worms democrat, antiquities and art collector in the 19th century. in: Der Wormsgau 8 (1967–1969), pp. 41–67.
  • To the travel report of Diego Alejandro de Gálvez. in: Der Wormsgau 8 (1967-1969), pp. 40-41.
  • Gravestones and epitaphs in St. Martin in Worms. in: Der Wormsgau 9 (1970–1971), pp. 69–82.
  • Piper, trumpeter, trombone player - sources on the history of music in Worms. in: Der Wormsgau 10 (1972-1973), pp. 29-49.
  • Leopold Levy and his synagogue from 1875. A contribution to the history and self-image of the Jews in Worms in the 19th century. in: Der Wormsgau 11 (1974/75), pp. 58-68.
  • Wells and well books. Technology and organization of the drinking water supply in Worms from the 17th to the 19th century. in: Der Wormsgau 12 (1976–1978), pp. 113–141.
  • Antiquities Association and Paul Museum. Aspects of the history of science, people and the city in Worms in the 19th century as a contribution to the centenary of the Museum of the City of Worms 1881–1981. in: Der Wormsgau 13 (1979-1981), pp. 20-38.
  • From the Paulusmuseum to the Museum of the City of Worms. Personalities - tasks - perspectives. An overview on the occasion of the event “The ancient society visits its museum” on August 21, 1981 in the Andreasstift. in: Der Wormsgau 13 (1979-1981), pp. 45-48.
  • In Memoriam Cornelius Freiherr von Heyl zu Herrnsheim. in: Der Wormsgau 14 (1982-1986), pp. 5-6.
  • Emil Stumpp (1886-1941). A draftsman as a chronicler. in: Der Wormsgau 14 (1982-1986), pp. 149-154.
  • Worms and the German Empire in the Middle Ages. in: Der Wormsgau 14 (1982-1986), pp. 9-14.
  • Worms in the bombing war and the destruction of the city in the spring of 1945. in: Der Wormsgau 14 (1982–1986), pp. 61–88.
  • Bishop, city and Jewish community of Worms in the Middle Ages (1349–1526). in: Nine hundred years of history of the Jews in Hesse. Contributions to political, economic and cultural life , edit. v. Christiane Heinemann. Wiesbaden 1983 (= Writings of the Commission for the History of the Jews in Hesse 6), pp. 41–81.
  • A play and festival house for the citizens. in: Der Wormsgau 15 (1987-1991), pp. 59-70.
  • The Rashi statue by Wolf Spitzer in the courtyard of the Old Synagogue in Worms. in: Der Wormsgau 16 (1992-1995), pp. 199-200.
  • The Worms leather worker monument in: Der Wormsgau 16 (1992–1995), pp. 197–198.
  • Address unknown? The deportation of the Sinti and Jews from Worms in 1940/42. in: Sachor 3, 1993, No. 4, pp. 31-35.
  • Heinrich von Gagern, the "Rhenish Institutions" and Worms. in: Der Wormsgau 17 (1998), pp. 202-223.
  • Political and social engagement of Worms Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. The Eberstadt, Edinger, Rothschild and Guggenheim families. in: Menorah. Yearbook for German-Jewish History 1999, pp. 305–345.
  • Heinz Hindorf's "history window" in Worms Cathedral - description and consideration. in: Der Wormsgau 18 (1999), pp. 223-251.
  • Between integration and annihilation. Jews in Worms in the 19th and 20th centuries using the example of the teacher and historian Samson Rothschild (1848–1939). in: "A National Socialist Revolution is a Thorough Matter" , ed. v. Hans-Georg Mayer a. Hans Berkessel, Mainz 2000 (The Time of National Socialism in Rhineland-Palatinate 1), pp. 244–252.
  • Worms historian, art historian and local researcher from the 19th / 20th centuries Century in pictorial representations. in: Der Wormsgau 20, 2001, pp. 127–142.
  • Samuel Wolf Levi (1751–1813), rabbi in Worms and Mainz. in: Mainz magazine. Middle Rhine Yearbook for Archeology, Art and History 97/97, ​​2001/02, pp. 163–168.
  • About Jewish schools, Jewish students and Jewish teachers , in: 475 years Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium Worms. Festschrift for the school anniversary. ed. v. Burkard Keilmann, Worms 2002 ( Humanitas. Bulletin of the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium Worms 47), pp. 87–95.
  • From the awakening of historical interest in Jewish worms to the Isidor Kiefer museum. in: Ashkenaz. Journal for History and Culture of the Jews 12, 2002 (special issue Medinat Worms, edited by Annette Weber), pp. 13–44.
  • 125 years of the Eleonoren grammar school in Worms (1874–1999) - a school reflected in the history of communal education, emancipation and urban planning. in: Der Wormsgau 21, 2002, pp. 69–101.
  • Church yards, sacred fields and communal cemeteries in Worms. On the 100th anniversary of the cemetery on the Hochheimer Höhe 1902-2002- in: Der Wormsgau 22, 2003, pp. 145-200.
  • Manfred Heyl (1908-2001). A contemporary composer and his works. in: Der Wormsgau 23, 2004, pp. 166–185.
  • Warmaisa - The Jewish Worms. From the beginning to Isidor Kiefer's Jewish Museum (1924). in: History of the City of Worms , ed. on behalf of the city of Worms by Gerold Bönnen, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 664–690.
  • The Melas family: origin, involvement in the community, leather manufacturing. Explanations of the gravestone inscriptions of the 18th / 19th centuries Century in the younger part of the old Jewish cemetery in Worms. in: Der Wormsgau 24, 2005/06, pp. 69–83.
  • German-language inscriptions on the old Jewish cemetery in Worms. Observations on the language used and on the content of statements. in: “Of Myths and Marches”. Medieval cultural history as reflected in a scientist's biography. Festschrift for Otfrid Ehrismann on his 65th birthday , ed. v. Gudrun Marci-Boehncke u. Jörg Riecke , Hildesheim a. a. 2006, pp. 451-476
  • From a Catholic hand - Protestant church building in the Grand Duchy of Hesse at the beginning of the 20th century: Friedrich Pützer, Augusto Varnesi and Ernst Riegel , in: Der Wormsgau 26, 2008, pp. 75–110.
  • Remember the previous generations. Bilingualism at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Worms , in: Der Wormsgau 27, 2009, pp. 171–188.

literature

  • Joachim Schalk: The Wormsgau. Special issue. Festschrift for Fritz Reuter on his 60th birthday. Worms 1990.
  • Otto Böcher : On the 75th birthday of Dr. Fritz Reuter. in: Der Wormsgau 23, 2004, pp. 203–205.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. High distinction for former city archivist Dr. Fritz Reuter .
  2. Otto Böcher: On the 75th birthday of Dr. Fritz Reuter. in: Der Wormsgau 23, 2004, p. 205.
  3. ^ Board of the antiquity association