Günter Konrad

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Günter Konrad (born September 25, 1929 in Wuppertal ), actually Walter Günther Konrad, is a German homeland researcher , author and editor. He is the holder of the Rhineland Taler (2019).

life and work

After his retirement in 1992, the trained industrial clerk and former managing director of the Elberfeld Educational Association (1982 to 1992) devoted himself intensively to local research around Wuppertal - Ronsdorf and its surroundings. He is an honorary member of the Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein eV as well as a member of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . In 2019 he was awarded the Rhineland Taler for his services to history and local history.

Driven by the discovery that historical artifacts such as photographs , especially from private holdings or archives , would be disposed of without being looked at and would thus be irretrievably lost for posterity, he began primarily to collect, organize and systematize photographs, and later also to digitize them to archive them and make them available to everyone. He links the historical image material with current photographs in order to illustrate the historical developments. In addition to various photo exhibitions, he designed "virtual tours" z. B. in the form of slide lectures around the Bergisch-Land clinic and through the Ronsdorf dam forest.

In addition to his activities as a local researcher, Günter Konrad was and is particularly involved in the Protestant church community and was instrumental in maintaining the YMCA Wuppertal-Ronsdorf after the Second World War .

Awards

  • Honorary member of the Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein eV, 2018
  • Rhineland thaler from the Rhineland Regional Council , 2019

Photo exhibitions

  • The Gate then and now (1985 in the Ronsdorf City Library and the Elberfeld Central Library)
  • 200 years of the Protestant parish Wuppertal-Ronsdorf (1989 in the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal , branch Ronsdorf)
  • The Morsbachtal and the Ronsdorf-Müngstener Railway (1991 in Burg Castle )
  • Exhibition to commemorate the destruction of Ronsdorf on May 30, 1943 (1993, in the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal, Ronsdorf branch)
  • Ronsdorf through the ages (1995, for the 250th birthday of the city of Ronsdorf, in the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal, Ronsdorf branch)
  • Exhibition on the 100th anniversary of the Müngstener Brücke (1997 in Burg Castle and in the Elberfeld Central Library)

Publications and Editing

  • "The Morsbachtal and the Ronsdorf-Müngstener Railway", in: Romerike Berge , 41 (1991) 4, pp. 26–31.
  • together with Josua Halbach, Friedhelm Peters and Marga Rühl: Our Ronsdorf 1745-1994. Working group “Our Ronsdorf”: Wuppertal 1995.
  • History of the Ronsdorf parishes and communities. Wuppertal 2000.
  • Ronsdorf in data and facts: Schools in Ronsdorf and their history. Wuppertal 2000.
  • "The house band knitting in Ronsdorf: the rise and fall of a branch of industry", in: Geschichte im Wuppertal , 10 (2001), pp. 66–85.
  • Living past. Wuppertal 2002.
  • Infrastructure, social and health services in Ronsdorf. Wuppertal 2004.
  • "Ronsdorf - just a" city of ribbons "?", In: Geschichte im Wuppertal , 13 (2004), pp. 51–57.
  • History of the Protestant parish Wuppertal-Ronsdorf , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005.
  • Wuppertal-Ronsdorf: a district history in pictures from the past and present . 1st edition. Sutton, Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-86680-402-9 .
  • together with Marga Rühl and Friedhelm Peters: Ronsdorf and its historical environment. Sutton: Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-505-7
  • "225 years of the Evangelical Church Community Wuppertal-Ronsdorf: ... and new life blossoms out of the ruins", in: Gemeinde aktuell , 2014/4, pp. 50–53.
  • Ronsdorf in the past and present . Volume 1. Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein: Wuppertal 2015.
  • Ronsdorf in the past and present . Volume 2. Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein: Wuppertal 2016.
  • Industry and traffic in the Morsbach valley. Memories in old photographs. Sutton: Erfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-95400-748-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Friedemann Bräuer: The man for Ronsdorf's local history. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. May 17, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Ronsdorf works in his mind: Günter Konrad. Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgerverein eV, May 12, 2019, p. 2 , accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Sabine Naber: A glimpse into history. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. March 26, 2015, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Moritz Köschgen: The walking encyclopaedia of Ronsdorf. In: Ronsdorfer Wochenschau. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  5. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung: Heimat- und Bürgererverein rejuvenates board. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Markus Achteburg: Ronsdorf Günter Konrad receives Rhineland thaler . In: Wuppertal total. March 22, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Bernd Krebs: Laudation for Günter Konrad on the award of the Rhineland Taler. Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein eV, May 10, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein eV Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein eV, 2008, accessed on September 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Konrad, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konrad, Walter Günther (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal