Hans-Otto Schembs

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Hans-Otto Schembs (* 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German is a chronicler and city historian . He wrote and published numerous books and writings on the history of Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Schembs graduated from the Frankfurt Musterschule and then studied German and history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . As a freelance author , he dealt intensively with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt. His activities also included the organization of readings and exhibitions.

Schembs has been a member since 1980 and was the managing director of the Friends of Frankfurt eV , an association that made outstanding contributions to the history of the city and the maintenance of the Frankfurt dialect . He was also a board member of the Society for Frankfurt History . He is a member of other historical and cultural-historical institutions in his hometown.

Works (selection)

In addition to over 1000 articles on the history and cityscape of Frankfurt, Schembs has also published several books. These include:

  • The peoples seek her from far away. The history of the Frankfurt fair . Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-7820-0524-4
  • The Börneplatz in Frankfurt am Main. A reflection of Jewish history . Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-7829-0344-7
  • Frankfurt as painters saw it . Weidlich, Flechsig, Würzburg 1989, ISBN 3-8035-1298-0
  • Walk through Frankfurt history . Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-7829-0530-X
  • That was the 20th century in Frankfurt am Main . Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2005, ISBN 3-8313-1458-6
  • Jewish patrons and donors in Frankfurt am Main . Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 9783782905664

Awards

  • In November 2008 Otto Schembs received the Friedrich Stoltze Prize from the Friends of Frankfurt. Frankfurt's head of cultural affairs , Felix Semmelroth , said, among other things , in the laudation : " Nobody knows the history of the city like they do and nobody knows so much about the necessity of history ... "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An interview with urban historian Hans-Otto Schembs , Frankfurter Neue Presse , February 14, 2017
  2. ↑ Frankfurt Department for Social Affairs, Seniors, Youth and Sport: Seniors magazine, 1/2009, page 45
  3. ↑ according to his own statement
  4. ↑ http://www.freunde-frankfurts.de/verein/publikationen/weither_suchen.html
  5. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of November 5, 2008, page F9
personal data
SURNAME Schembs, Hans-Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chronicler and city historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main