Fritz Wündisch

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Wündisch family grave, Brühl Südfriedhof

Fritz Wündisch (born February 24, 1910 in Saverne (Zabern, Alsace ), † June 19, 1994 in Brühl ) was a lawyer and historian.

Life

After Alsace was annexed to France again as a result of the First World War , the Wündisch family left their homeland and moved to Germany. Wündisch, whose parents had died in 1923, then lived with relatives in Berlin .

education

After graduating from the Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1928, Fritz Wündisch studied law . During his studies in Erlangen, he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in 1928 . He passed his first state examination in law in the city of Celle in 1932 and the assessor examination in Berlin in 1935.

Working life

In 1936 Wündisch moved to the Rhineland and began his professional life as a lawyer assessor at the headquarters of the lignite and briquette factory Roddergrube . During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . At the end of 1945 he was able to resume his work at the Roddergrube. He was the company's legal advisor until 1952 , after which he became head of the tax department. As a result of the merger of the lignite works to form the Rheinische Braunkohlekraftwerke AG (now Rheinbraun ), Fritz Wündisch was transferred to Cologne , where he worked as an authorized signatory in the tax department until his retirement in 1975 .

research

As early as 1947, when Wündisch had decided on Brühl as his permanent place of residence, he began to deal with the history of Brühl , which he included in the history of Kurköln . Individual contributions to the history of Brühl appeared as supplements in the "Brühler Heimatbl Blätter". He also researched the history of lignite mining in the Rhineland. The Rheinbraunarchiv in Schloss Paffendorf , now the Rheinbraun Information Center , was created through his initiative . After his retirement he intensified his historical research through archive work and source studies on which his publications are based.

He has given his extensive collection of transcripts of sources and regesta on the history of Brühl to the Brühl City Archives.

Social Commitment

He contributed his experience and knowledge to various committees. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Brühl adult education center , in committees of the Knappschaft and deputy chairman of the non-profit building company Brühl.

Honors

Commemoration

Fritz Wündisch was buried in the south cemetery in Brühl in 1994. A small street near the cemetery bears his name today.

Publications

  • Fritz Wündisch: About Klütten and Briquette. Pictures from the history of the Rhenish lignite mining. Brühl 1980, ISBN 3-922634-00-1 .
  • Fritz Wündisch: Brühl. Mosaic stones on the history of an old city in Cologne. Rheinlandverlag. Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7927-0893-0 .
  • Fritz Wündisch: Sources for the history of Brühl: Brühler Regesten. Vol. I and II. City of Brühl 1984 and 1985
  • Fritz Wündisch: The French period. Vol. III. City of Brühl 1984.
  • Fritz Wündisch: The old Brühl town charter from 1285 . City of Brühl 1985.
  • Fritz Wündisch: Bender document book. Volume 1 and 2. City of Brühl 1979 and 1989.
  • Fritz Wündisch: 500 years of the Franciscan monastery. City of Brühl 1991.
  • Fritz Wündisch: One and a half millennia Weiherhof in Schwadorf. City of Brühl 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Brühl city archive: Fritz Wündisch, life and work
  2. ↑ Julius Andreae and Fritz Griessbach: The fraternity of Bubenreuth. 1917-1967. Erlangen 1967, p. 261.
personal data
SURNAME Wündisch, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Saverne (Zabern), Alsace
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1994
Place of death Bruehl