Günter Rauch

Günter Rauch (born November 15, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian .

life and work

Günter Rauch attended the Humanist High School in Bad Reichenhall from 1946 and moved to Memmingen in 1949 . After graduating from high school in 1954, he studied history in Frankfurt and Munich. From 1959 to 1976 he worked as a research assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1963 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. From 1976 to 1980 he headed the private Herder School in Wuppertal , after which he took over the management of the cultural office of the city of Hanau from 1980 to 2000 .

Rauch wrote numerous publications on the imperial, church, regional and local history. He is a member of all Hanau historical societies and the Historical Commission for Hesse in Marburg . For many years he was the deputy chairman of the Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 eV and chairman of the sponsoring association Hessisches Puppenmuseum Hanau-Wilhelmsbad eV .

Since 1964 he has been a lecturer at the Hanau Adult Education Center. From 1973 he held the position of lecturer and predicant of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck , which awarded him the Elisabeth Medal . Since 2004 he has been a guest speaker for the Hanauer Altstadt eV community of interests, for which he gives 4-6 lectures a year to this day (as of 2014). In 2014 he received the “Maître de Secours” ( Master of Help ) award .

Publications (selection)

• Provost, provost office and monastery of Saint Bartholomew in Frankfurt: 9th century to 1802. W. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1975, 415 pp.
• About the delimitation of jurisdiction between the Reichshofrat and the Reichskammergericht: in particular in criminal matters and matters of voluntary jurisdiction. Issues 1-5, with Hans Schlosser and Werner Hälle. 199 pp., 1965.
• The alliances of German rulers with members of the Reich: from Friedrich Barbarossa's assumption of power to the death of Rudolf von Habsburg. Scientia Verlag, 1966. 251 pp.
• The Mainz cathedral chapter in modern times: on the constitution and self-image of a noble spiritual community; with a list of cathedral prelates since 1500. Volume 1. Böhlau, 66 pp.
• 450 years old town hall: German goldsmith's house in Hanau. Peters, Hanau 1988. 204 pp.
• The German goldsmith's house in Hanau: past and present. City Council of Hanau, 1992
• Andreas van Recum, 1765-1828. A Rhenish cosmopolitan. With Karl Georg Faber and Walther Kienast. Röhrscheid. 1968. 248 pp.
• History of Hanau: Volume 1; From the beginning until the death of Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg (1612). Cocon-Verlag GmbH, 2016. ISBN 3-86314-320-5 . 454 .S
• History of Hanau: Volume 2; From the Thirty Years War to the destruction of the city on March 19, 1945. Cocon-Verlag GmbH.
• History of Hanau: Volume 3; Decades of reconstruction, the incorporation of districts and the redesign of the inner city. Cocon-Verlag GmbH.

Web links

• Dr. Günter Rauch. "Maitre de Secours 2014" from the IGHA to Dr. Günter Rauch. In: Interest group Hanauer Altstadt eV, 2014.
• Historian Dr. Günter Rauch as ?? Maître de Secours ?? honored. In: Hanauer Anzeiger from 2014.
• Committed to the cultural landscape. Dr. Günter RAUCH celebrates his 80th birthday today In: Osthessen News. Medienkontor M. Angelstein GmbH & Co. KG, Fulda from November 15, 2015.
• Dirk Iding: Epochal work in three volumes. Ex-head of the cultural office puts “The History of Hanau” on paper. In: op-online.de. Metac Medien Verlags GmbH from November 23, 2016.
• The "smoke" follows the "carpenter". Book review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from November 28, 2016.
• Rauch, Günter .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .