Fritz Roth (genealogist)

Fritz Roth (1980)

Fritz Roth (born July 9, 1905 , † December 1, 1987 in Boppard ) was a German genealogist .

life and work

Fritz Roth came from an entrepreneurial family in the Thuringian Vogtland , which came from the Magdeburg area at the end of the 17th century. He passed his Abitur with distinction and studied law in Leipzig and Munich as well as business administration in Berlin and Leipzig. In his diploma thesis he dealt with advertising theory. A planned doctorate was prevented in 1927 by the death of his father. A business graduate by profession , he was the owner and manager of the family business founded in 1827, a soap factory in Zeulenroda in Thuringia. After the expropriation by the GDR in 1950, he settled in Boppard on the Rhine.

Since then, Roth has devoted almost all of his creative energy to his ten-volume work Restlose Evaluations of funeral sermons and personal publications for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes , which was self-published from 1959 to 1980. In 1962 he suggested the establishment of a working group for Central German family research and was its first chairman. In 1972 he became an honorary member of this study group. He also dealt with the origins and descendants of Martin Luther .

In 1981 Roth was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Johann Christoph Gatterer Medal of the Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Göttingen for his services to family and cultural history research.

Works

Books

• Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. 10 volumes, self-published, Boppard am Rhein 1959 to 1980.

Articles (selection)

• Captain Martin Gneupel's first wife. In: Heimatblätter des Reuss. Zeulenroda indicator. No. 26, 1938.
• Funeral sermons as historical sources. In: Heimatblätter des Reuss. Zeulenroda indicator. No. 5, 1939.
• Zeulenrodaer in the directory of funeral sermons in the princely library in Stolberg. In: Heimatblätter des Reuss. Zeulenroda indicator. No. 6, 1939.
• Caspar Decker in Zeulenroda (1651–1695), his funeral sermon and his descendants . In: Communications of the home and history association Zeulenroda 1936–1940. Volume 1, 1941, p. 67 ff.
• Funeral sermons (note). In: The Lantern. 1955, p. 54.
• Literature on funeral sermons and personal papers . In: Literature reports on genealogy. Volume 1/12, Literature Report 1959, pp. 285-316, contained therein: The Personalschrift-Katalog in Dresden. P. 290f.
• History and significance of the Princely Stolberg-Stolberg collection of funeral sermons (with an appendix: General information on funeral sermons). In: The archivist. Vol. 12, 1959, col. 217-226.
• How do you work with funeral sermons? In: Practical Research Aid. NF Volume 26/2, 1960, pp. 199-202.
• Errors about funeral sermons. In: Family and People. Volume 9, 1960, pp. 205-212.

literature

• Wolfgang Huschke: Fritz Roth on his 75th birthday . In: Central German family studies . Volume VI, Volume 21, Issue 3, July - September 1980, p. 328
• Wolfgang Huschke: Medal of Merit for Fritz Roth . In: Central German family studies . Volume VI, Volume 22, Issue 3, July - September 1981, p. 518
• Herbert E. Lemmel: Review of complete evaluations of funeral sermons. In: Central German family studies . Volume VII, Volume 23, Issue 1, January - March 1982, pp. 46-48
• Wolfgang Huschke: Fritz Roth 80 . In: Central German family studies . Volume VIII, Volume 26, Issue 4, October - December 1985, p. 202
• Wolfgang Huschke: Fritz Roth † . In: Central German family studies . Volume IX, Volume 29, Issue 1, January - March 1988, p. 46
• Friedrich Wilhelm Euler: Fritz Roth * July 9, 1905 † December 1, 1987. In: Archives for kin research. 54th year, issue 110, June 1988, C- A- Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, ISSN  0003-9403