Hans Funk (local history researcher)

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Hans Funk (born April 6, 1936 in Delitzsch ) is a German homeland researcher and publicist .

Life

Hans Funk completed an apprenticeship as a specialist salesperson for photo optics in Delitzsch and made a career in 1950 as a division manager in the trade organization . He later studied economics at the Trade Institute of Karl Marx University in Leipzig . From 1981 to 1990 he was the economic director of the forest hospital in Bad Düben and has been in retirement since 1996. Since then he has devoted himself even more to his two hobbies: numismatics and home history . Bad Düben has been the center of his work and life for over 50 years. Here he started a family and always immersed himself in the history of this region with great devotion. His hobbies are minting , collecting historical postcards and postmarks as well as local research . He was also involved in building the museum at Düben Castle on the side of the founder Willy Winkler .

"You have two left hands, but I need someone to design the showcases and write the texts."

- said Willy Winkler to Hans Funk

Works

Since 1965 he has written hundreds of articles in regional as well as national newspapers, brochures and books, his own books, for example about the history of the savings banks in the former district of Delitzsch and the city of Bad Düben. There were also portraits of artists and specialist articles on emergency money . Before the fall of the Wall , Hans Funk was involved in the Kulturbund, then in the Bad Düben home association. He is also a founding and honorary member of the Dübener Heide association, and headed the association's magazine for many years. After the fall of the Wall he wrote for a while for the local supplement of the Leipziger Volkszeitung .

Books

  • "Bad Düben in old views - Volume 2" (1994, 78 pages, ISBN 9028858873 )
  • "Bad Düben in old views - Volume 1" (1998, 76 pages, ISBN 9028854053 )
  • "The old Düben rediscovered: Pictures from past years" (2003, 120 pages, ISBN 978-3-89570-851-0 )
  • "Foray through the Düben postal history"

Contributions

  • Yearbook of the Düben Heath

Magazines

  • Die Dübener Heide , since 1990 over 40 issues have been created under his direction
  • Special issue for the 99th German Hiking Day 1999
  • Special issue on the 80-year history of the Heideverein
  • The old Schwemsal rediscovered
  • Schwemsal through the ages

Honors

  • 1999 "Ambassador of the Dübener Heide" by the Leipziger Volkszeitung as a tribute to the local supplements he wrote for the newspaper
  • 2001 honorary member of the Dübener Heide eV association
  • 2016 “Heidepreis” from the Dübener Heide eV association for his life's work, which includes decades of work for the history of the Dübener Heide
  • 2018 Ur-Krostitzer Jahresring : Winner in the Lifetime Achievement category

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Leipziger Volkszeitung from April 10th, 2016 : Heidepreis 2016 goes to the local researcher Hans Funk from Bad Düben. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Leipziger Volkszeitung from April 5th, 2016: Bad Dübens former forest hospital boss Hans Funk is 80 years old. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Dübener Wochenspiegel from March 29, 2006: Even at the age of 70, Hans Funk still has big plans . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 3, 2017 ; accessed on October 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duebener-wochenspiegel.de
personal data
SURNAME Funk, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local researcher and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Delitzsch