Hans Schulz-Blochwitz

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Johannes ("Hans") Schulz , from 1939 Hans Schulz-Blochwitz , (born March 24, 1888 in Weesenstein , † June 17, 1967 in West Berlin ) was a German church councilor, cathedral capitular, genealogist and heraldist.

Life

Hans Schulz came from the Eastern Ore Mountains . In 1927 he became the municipal legal director in Dresden . During the time of National Socialism, he was chairman of the Roland Society , which was founded in Dresden in 1902 , an association for the promotion of traditional, coat of arms and seal knowledge. During the bombing raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945, his apartment and his private archive were destroyed. In the summer of 1945 he was briefly arrested in Dresden by the Soviet occupying forces. In the same year, on November 1st, he was appointed legal senior church councilor at the Evangelical Lutheran regional church office of Saxony and canon of Meissen. In addition, he became canon of Wurzen in 1948. In 1950 he moved to the state supply office in West Berlin without prior notice, where he worked for four years as a civil servant. In West Berlin he was elected a board member of the HEROLD Association , Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Related Sciences in Berlin . Most recently, he worked at the Fichte Institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences until his retirement.

In addition to his official activities, in which he dealt extremely intensively with Johann Gottlieb Fichte and the complete edition of his works, Schulz-Blochwitz was best known for his publications in the field of genealogy and heraldry. He also kept an index of the canons of Meißen and Wurzen.

estate

His written estate of 3 running meters is in the Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin.

literature

  • Rudolf Stöwesand : Johannes Schulz-Blochwitz 1887–1967 the friend. In: Der Herold, NF 5/6 (1967), pp. 472-475.
  • Volkmar Weiss : The genealogical association "Roland" (Dresden) from 1933 to 1945 . Part II: In the shadow of the Nuremberg Laws. In: Genealogy , Heft 5–6 (2004), pp. 143–159.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the central estate database
personal data
SURNAME Schulz-Blochwitz, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulz Johannes; Schulz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church council, cathedral capitular, genealogist and heraldist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Weesenstein
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1967
Place of death West Berlin