Georg von Gynz-Rekowski

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Georg von Gynz-Rekowski (born October 8, 1919 in Wernigerode ; † January 31, 1997 ) was a German theologian and local researcher in Wernigerode .

Life

Georg von Gynz-Rekowski, who grew up in Wernigerode and served as an officer in the operations department of the Army General Staff until 1945 , studied theology in Halle from 1948 to 1952 and then worked as an Evangelical Lutheran parish priest in Derenburg until 1966 . For family reasons he had to resign from the church service. Von Gynz-Rekowski received his doctorate in theology in 1966 with a thesis on the origin and interpretation of the Marian carpet in the Dommuseum Halberstadt at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . The work was published two years later in the “Low German Contributions to Art History”.

Von Gynz-Rekowski is the author of several books on religious studies and local history as well as numerous articles, for example in the exile newspaper Wernigeröder Zeitung published in the Federal Republic and edited by Gerhard Bombös and in the Liberal-Demokratie Zeitung. He also took part in radio and television programs and has been teaching at the adult education center since 1968.

Von Gynz-Rekowski is considered the nestor of Wernigerode homeland and history research. His research on the altars of the Wernigerode churches is of great art historical importance. These works, like about 50 other works that belong to the inventory of the Harz library in Wernigerode, have remained unpublished. Unpublished works include the document book of the city of Wernigerode II (1971; copy of the manuscript by Eduard Jacobs ), guests in Wernigerode (1975), Harz folk art in costume and work (1975) and materials on the history of the monasteries of Ilsenburg and Drübeck (no year ). As a “bourgeois reactionary”, von Gynz-Rekowski was ostracized until the revolution in November 1989 and was generally not invited to state events. During the fall of the Berlin Wall, “our Gynz”, as he was called, was also politically active, for example as a speaker at the Wernigerode Monday demonstration .

Wernigerode's mayor at the time, Ludwig Hoffmann, paid tribute to von Gynz-Rekowski on the occasion of his death with the following words: "With his life he gave the city a lot, beyond his death." Von Gynz-Rekowski acquired valuable historical knowledge and preserved it for posterity.

His resting place is in the Theobaldi cemetery in Wernigerode-Nöschenrode .

Works (selection)

  • Symbols of the feminine in the image of God and cult of the Old Testament. Rascher Verlag, Zurich / Stuttgart 1963.
  • Hare hieroglyph and hare goddess. In: Klio . 50: 5-22 (1968).
  • The human psyche in European and Chinese art. In: Wilhelm Bitter (ed.): Occidental therapy and eastern wisdom. Klett-Verlag, Stuttgart 1968, pp. 245-258.
  • "Ellernklipp" and the Bäumler trial. New knowledge after finding the trial file. In: Fontane leaves . 4: 299-315 (1978).
  • The festival circle of the year. 2nd Edition. Union-Verlag, Berlin 1985, DNB 870175343 .
  • Brocken: history, home, humor. Ruth Gerig Verlag, Königstein / Taunus 1991, ISBN 3-928275-05-4 .
  • The feast days of life. Union-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-372-00271-7 .
  • Wernigerode: history, home, humor. Ruth Gerig Verlag, Königstein / Taunus 1991, ISBN 3-928275-00-3 .

literature

  • Konrad Breitenborn : political authority, advisor and gentleman. In: New Wernigeröder newspaper. Issue 4/1997, pp. 20-21.
  • Helga Neumann: On the death of Dr. Georg v. Gynz-Rekowski - Wernigerode will not be like it was before his death. In: New Wernigeröder newspaper. Issue 4/1997, p. 20.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Information in: Wernigerode: Historie, Heimat, Humor. 1991, p. 6.
  2. ↑ a b Konrad Breitenborn: Political authority, adviser and gentleman. In: New Wernigeröder newspaper. Issue 4/1997, p. 20.
  3. ↑ a b Helga Neumann: On the death of Dr. Georg v. Gynz-Rekowski - Wernigerode will not be like it was before his death. In: New Wernigeröder newspaper. Issue 4/1997, p. 20.
  4. ↑ 75 full years of life. Local researcher Dr. von Gynz-Rekowski celebrates his birthday on Saturday. In: Volksstimme (local edition Wernigerode) of October 4, 1994.
  5. ^ Eva Labouvie (ed.): Aristocracy in Saxony-Anhalt: Court culture between representation, entrepreneurship and family. Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna a. a., 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-12906-4 , p. 289.
  6. ↑ Christian Juranek (ed.): Unheard of adventure in somewhere: Ernst Barlach and the Harz. Letterado-Verlag, Quedlinburg 2006, ISBN 3-938579-15-3 , p. 178 (footnote 5).
  7. ↑ Susanne Ude-Koeller: On Paths. On the nature discourse using the example of the Harz Club eV Waxmann-Verlag, Münster et al. 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1316-8 , p. 291.
  8. ↑ Dieter Pötschke (Ed.): Dominion, Faith and Art. On the history of the imperial monastery and monastery Drübeck. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-041-2 , p. 51 (footnote 98).
  9. ↑ a b Konrad Breitenborn: Our "Gynz": a man who did not allow himself to be captured. In: Volksstimme (local edition Wernigerode) from February 6, 1997.
  10. ↑ “Many will miss him, including us.” OB on the death of Dr. Georg von Gynz-Rekowski. In: Volksstimme (local edition Wernigerode) from February 5, 1997.
personal data
SURNAME Gynz-Rekowski, Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1997