Gitta Günther

Gitta-Maria Günther (* 1936 in Stettin ) is a German archivist , non-fiction author and editor, particularly on the history of the city of Weimar and the Buchenwald concentration camp .

Life

Born in Stettin in 1936, Gitta-Maria Günther worked as a municipal archivist in the Weimar City Archives from 1959 to 2001 . During this time she published - together with Lothar Wallraf - on behalf of the City Council of Weimar - the work History of the City of Weimar .

In 1997 Günther was the editor of the second, improved edition of the non-fiction book Weimar published by Böhlau Verlag . Lexicon on city history .

Gitta Günther was a scientific member of the Historical Commission for Thuringia eV association

Works (selection)

• Gitta Günther, Lothar Wallraf (ed.): History of the City of Weimar , 2nd, revised edition, 909 pages with 275 partly colored illustrations, ed. on behalf of the City Council of Weimar, Weimar: Böhlau, 1976
• Weimar Chronicle , ed. by the Standing Commissions for Culture of the Weimar City Council and the Weimar-Land District Council in cooperation with the Weimar City Museum,
  • Episode 1: From the primitive society to September 1775 (= tradition and the present , issue 20), 1987; contents
  • Episode 2: November 1775 to December 1849 (= tradition and present , issue 24), 1987; contents
  • Episode 3: March 1850 to April 1945 (= tradition and present , issue 33), 1990; contents
  • Episode 4: April 1945 to December 1960 (= tradition and present , issue 10), 1984
  • Episode 5: January 1961 to April 1981 (= tradition and present , issue 14), contains among other things the highlights of musical life, 1985
• Gitta Günther, Lothar Wallraf: The Weimar City Archive and its holdings , Weimar: Böhlau, 1967
• Memorials of the labor movement in Weimar. Sub-title Arbeitergedenkstätten (= Weimar writings on local history and natural history , issue 31), Weimar: Stadtmuseum Weimar, 1977
• Selected bibliography on the history of the fascist Buchenwald concentration camp and the Buchenwald National Memorial and Memorial , ed. from the Buchenwald National Reminder and Memorial Site (= Buchenwald booklet , volume 11), 1980
• Gitta Günther, Lothar Wallraf: Bibliography on the history of the city of Weimar , ed. on behalf of the City Council of Weimar, Weimar: Böhlau, 1982
• Buchenwald (= tradition and present , volume 9), 3rd, revised and redesigned edition, Weimar: Standing Committee on Culture of the Weimar City Council and the Weimar-Land District Council, 1983; contents
• Weimar. A chronicle , 1st edition, Leipzig: Kiepenheuer, 1996, ISBN 3-378-01009-6
• From the measuring house to the media location. On the history of the Weimar City Library (= Weimarer Schriften , issue 63), ed. from the Stadtmuseum Weimar, Weimar: Stadtmuseum, 2008, ISBN 3-910053-45-9 ; Table of contents
• Honorary citizen of the city of Weimar. A contribution to the history of the city , Weimar: Weimarer Verlags-Gesellschaft, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941830-10-3 ; Table of contents and information from the publisher's report
• Gitta Günther, Rainer Wagner : Weimar. Street names , 1st edition, Ilmenau: RhinoVerlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-939399-49-0 and ISBN 3-939399-49-3
• Gitta Günther, Gerhard Hoffmann : Buchenwald concentration camp 1937 to 1945. Small encyclopedia , 1st edition, Ilmenau: RhinoVerlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95560-897-2 and ISBN 3-95560-897-2 ; Content text

Literature (selection)

• Katrin Berger: On the departure of the city archivist of Weimar Gitta Günther , in: Archives in Thuringia , No. 21/2001, p. 26; Downloadable as a PDF document from the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Literature by and about Gitta Günther in the catalog of the German National Library
2. ↑ Werner Greiling (responsible): Scientific members (alphabetically) (undated) on the website of the Historical Commission for Thuringia , last accessed on July 5, 2016