Hans-Werner Engels

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Hans-Werner Engels giving a lecture in the Heine House (Hamburg)

Hans-Werner Engels (born July 8, 1941 in Essen , † April 19, 2010 in Hamburg ) was a German high school teacher , non-fiction author and local historian .

Life

Hans-Werner Engels came from the Ruhr area . From 1952 to 1954 he attended the old-language Burggymnasium in Essen, from 1954 to 1958 the mathematically and scientifically oriented Alfred Krupp School . After moving to the island of Langeoog , he was a student at the North Sea High School there and on September 22, 1962 passed an external Abitur examination in Hanover .

In the autumn of 1962 he began studying history and German at the University of Münster , which he continued in Hamburg . After the first state examination, which he passed in June 1968 at the University of Hamburg , he turned to political science. A planned doctorate on Friedrich Christian Laukhard (1757-1822) did not bring Engels to a degree, despite funding from a graduate scholarship, but entered the school service in 1969 as a trainee lawyer at the Hamburg grammar school Blankenese and at the Ernst Schlee grammar school in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek .

In March 1971, he laid the second state exam, became a 1974 teacher and was appointed to 1989 at the high school Krieterstrasse in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg as a teacher of history , politics and German business. From 1989 to 1995 he taught as senior teacher at the Friedrich-Ebert Gymnasium in Hamburg-Harburg . From August 1995 until his retirement in March 1999, he was a research and educational assistant at the Hamburg School Museum .

Act

Hans-Werner Engels was active as a journalist since the 1970s. Following his teacher and role model Walter Grab , he concentrated on researching the reception of the French Revolution and the life stories of the German Jacobins . The characters whose work and writings he brought to mind included Friedrich Christian Laukhard, Johann Georg Kerner , Joachim Lorenz Evers (1758–1807), Heinrich Würzer and Karl Friedrich Reinhard . He also made contributions to the local and theater history of Hamburg and Altona . After his death, his heirs handed over the rights to texts for the Harvestehuder Revolution Festival to the non-profit Hamburg History Book. There they were used to develop teaching material and to develop a video.

Hans-Werner Engels was a member of the Varnhagen Society , to which he gave a commemorative lecture on the 200th anniversary of Klopstock's death in 2003 in the Heine House in Altona .

On November 21, 1994, the Central Committee of the Hamburg Citizens' Associations bestowed its highest award, the Portuguese bronze medalist, on Hans-Werner Engels.

Library

Hans-Werner Engels owned a large library with an extensive collection on Altona and St. Pauli and their history. After Engel's unexpected death in 2010, the library's fate remained uncertain for a long time. However, with the support of the Jan Philipp Reemtsma Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture , Hamburg University succeeded in acquiring the collection and in 2015 to begin collecting it.

Works

  • (With Hans-Günther Friday:) Altona. Hamburg's beautiful sister. History and stories. Axel Springer, Hamburg 1982; 2nd Edition. Christians, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-7672-1135-1 .
  • Georg Kerner (1770-1812) and the Philanthropic Society in Hamburg. A contribution on the subject of Hamburg at the time of the French Revolution. Hamburg 1989

Articles (selection)

  • It began in Neumühlen ... Goethe and Schiller's quarrels with Johann Friedrich Reichardt. In: Jörgen Bracker (Hrsg.): Peace for the world theater. Goethe - a participant, observer and mediator between world and theater, politics and history . Max Wegner on his 80th birthday. Museum for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1982, pp. 99-105.
  • Johann Christoph Unzer. In: Ulf Andersen (Ed.): 250 years Christianeum 1738–1988. Festschrift. Vol. 1, Christianeum, Hamburg 1988, pp. 75-90.
  • On Friedrich Christian Laukhard's late work. In: Erich Donnert (ed.): Europe in the early modern times. Festschrift for Günter Mühlpfordt. Vol. 2: Early Modern. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-412-00597-5 , pp. 439–453.
  • Simson Alexander David ; August von Hennings. In: Manfred Asendorf, Rolf von Bockel (eds.): Democratic ways. CVs from five centuries. A lexicon. JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-476-01244-1 , pp. 123-124.
  • On the life and work of Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht (1752–1814). In: Erich Donnert (ed.): Europe in the early modern times. Festschrift for Günter Mühlpfordt. Vol. 5: Enlightenment in Europe. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-412-17497-1 , pp. 645-679.
  • Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht (1752–1814) and the “National Theater” in Altona. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Vol. 86 (2000), pp. 1-42.
  • Altona - Weimar of the North? Prehistory and foundation of the Altona lodge "Carl zum Felsen", activity of their brothers up to 1800. In: Circular correspondence united with the Lower Saxony lodge journal, 2001, No. 4 (April), pp. 146–153.
  • The bizarre marriage of Sophie and Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht. Documents on two celebrities from Goethe's time. In: Information. Mitteilungsblatt Hamburger Bibliotheken, vol. 2001, issue 1 (March), pp. 3-36.
  • Joachim Lorenz Evers (1758–1807) goldsmith, writer, publisher, theater director. A forgotten citizen of the world and a Freemason. In: Information. Mitteilungsblatt Hamburger Bibliotheken, vol. 2001. Issue 4, pp. 317–321.
  • Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht ; Sophie Albrecht ; Alexander David ; Joachim Lorenz Evers ; Johann Friedrich Schütze ; Johann Christoph Unzer ; Johann August Unzer ; Heinrich Würzer. In: Hamburg biography . Lexicon of persons. Vol. 1, ed. v. Frank Kopitzsch and Dirk Brietzke . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 .
  • Everything was possible! The start of a new Europe: Hamburg's citizens celebrate the French Revolution. In: The time no. July 11, 2002 (web resource)
  • Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht (1752-1814). Comments on his life, his political novels and his journalism. In: Erich Donnert (Hrsg.): Europe in the early modern times. Festschrift for Günter Mühlpfordt. Vol. 6: Central, Northern and Eastern Europe , Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-14799-0 , pp. 685-719.
  • “Freye Germans! The hour sings ... “Carl Friedrich Cramer's Hamburg friends celebrate a freedom festival. A contribution to the North German Enlightenment. In: Rüdiger Schütt (Ed.): “A man of fire and talents.” The life and work of Carl Friedrich Cramer. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-885-X , pp. 245-270.
  • The man who invented Frederick the Great. With his "History of the Seven Years' War", Johann Wilhelm von Archenholtz shaped the image of the Prussian King - and became a pioneer of modern German journalism. In: Die Zeit No. 35 BC. August 24, 2006 (web resource)
  • Joachim Lorenz Evers (1758–1807). A forgotten friend of freedom, citizen of the world and friend of freedom from Altona. In: Erich Donnert (ed.): Europe in the early modern times. Festschrift for Günter Mühlpfordt, Vol. 7: Unknown sources. Essays on the development, preliminary stages, limits and continued effects of the early modern era in and around Europe. Tables of contents of volumes 1–6. Register of persons in volumes 1–7. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-10702-4 , pp. 323-345.
  • Caspar Siegfried Gähler ; Peter Wilhelm Hensler ; Philipp Gabriel Hensler ; Werner Jakstein ; Gottlieb Ernst Klausen ; Heinrich Köllisch ; Johanne Charlotte Unzer ; Diedrich Gottfried Vollmer ; Johann Gottlieb Wolstein . In: Hamburg biography . Lexicon of persons. Edited by Franklin Kopitzsch and Dirk Brietzke. 2. verb. Edition. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0098-9 .
  • The Franco-German Minister. Germany was his home, France his fate, Weimar his world: the amazing life of Karl Friedrich Reinhard. In: Die Zeit No. 2 from January 7, 2010 (web resource)
  • A festival for the French Revolution - the Freedom Festival in Harvestehude posthumously, 2017.

Published works

  • Poems and songs of German Jacobins. Metzler, Stuttgart 1971 (German Revolutionary Democrats 1)
  • Christian von Massenbach: Historical memorabilia on the history of the decline of the Prussian state since the year 1794. Friedrich Buchholz: Gallery of Prussian characters. Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1979 (Haidnian antiquities)
  • (with Andreas Harms) Friedrich Christian Laukhard: Life and Fates. 5 parts in 3 volumes. Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1987 (Haidnian antiquities)
  • “The terrible hymn.” The Marseillaise in Germany. Songs and poems against the unjust war. Saarland University, FR 8.1 (German Studies), Saarbrücken 1989 (Revolutionary Reflexes in German Literature H. 5, Small Archive of the Eighteenth Century H. 7)
  • Heinrich Würzer: A Walker in Altona (1801-1804). Wohlleben, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88159-048-X . (Meiendorfer Druck N ° 42)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A festival for the French Revolution. Retrieved October 31, 2017 .
  2. ^ Enlightenment and the bourgeois revolution. Retrieved October 31, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Matthias Schmoock: The new book collection of the Hamburg University . Hamburger Abendblatt , September 2, 2015; Retrieved September 4, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Engels, Hans-Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2010
Place of death Hamburg