Hans Wohltmann

Hans Wohltmann (born December 8, 1884 in Vorberg near Schwanewede  , † August 27, 1968 ) was a German regional historian.

Life

Wohltmann was born in Vorberg in 1884 as the son of a farming family with a farm. He received private lessons from Pastor Wolters in Meyenburg and attended the Verden Domgymnasium from 1899 to 1905 . At the Abitur he was best ( Primus omnium ) and studied history, German, geography and philosophy at the University of Tübingen and the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1909. In 1910 he passed the state examination for higher teaching and came as a trainee lawyer at the Athenaeum Stade , where he stayed for a year before becoming a teacher at the German secondary school in Genoa . When this closed in 1915 because of the First World War, he went to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover, where he was senior teacher in 1923. In 1926 he became director of the Athenaeum in Stade . He stayed that way until his retirement in 1950.

From 1926 to 1935 he was a member of the advisory board of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein and from 1935 to 1968 he was its chairman. In 1934 he became editor of the Stader Archives (from 1947 Stader Jahrbuch ). In 1936 he became a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and was on the advisory board of the Lower Saxony Homeland Federation. 1960 to 1968 he was a senior of the St. Antonii Brotherhood in Stade .

In 1965 he received the Brothers Grimm Medal of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen for his scientific work in the field of North Lower Saxony regional history, the city history of Stade, legends and the Worpswede artistic history as well as for his services to the preservation of monuments in the Weser-Elbe area (Laudatory speech). In 1964 he became an honorary citizen of Stade.

He wrote biographies for the New German Biography and the Lower Saxony Life Pictures .

Fonts

• The origin and development of the state sovereignty of the abbot of Prüm, 786–1790 (= dissertation), Leipzig 1909
• Hindenburg words; Letters, wirings, speeches and conversations by Field Marshal von Hindenburg, JF Lehmann, Munich 1918
• The history of the churches in Stade, magazine of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony, Volume 41, 1936
• The sarcophagi of the Counts of Königsmark, Stader Archive 1936
• Fritz Mackensen-Worpswede: (On his 70th birthday on April 8, 1936), Stader Archive 1937
• as editor: From the history of the Staatl. Athenaeums zu Stade: A festschrift for the 350th anniversary: ​​1588–1938, Stade: Stelzer 1938
• Hans am Ende, in: Lower Saxon Life Pictures, Volume 1, 1939
• Friedrich Rotbart and Heinrich the Lion, Stader Archive, 1939, NF issue 29
• Dietrich Mahnke, Stader Archive, NF issue 30, 1940
• Otto Modersohn, Stader Archive, NF issue 31, 1941 (with letters from Rilke to Modersohn and a description by Fischerhude von Modersohn)
• Heinrich the Lion and the Stade Inheritance, 1941
• The introduction of Christianity among the Saxons, especially in our homeland between Niederweser and Niederelbe, Stader Jahrbuch 1952
• The members of the St. Antonii Brotherhood in Stade from 1439–1954, Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein 1954
• Johann Gottfried Herder: What does it mean to us today?, Stader Jahrbuch 1957, pp. 9–31
• The history of the city of Stade an der Niederelbe, Stade 1942, 3rd edition 1956, Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, individual publications of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein 9
• Rainer Maria Rilke in Worpswede; based on letters, diaries, and poems related to the 60th anniversary of the Worpswede artists' colony, Deutscher Literatur-Verlag 1949, 1952
• Fischerhude: Village of farmers and artists, Stader yearbook 1958, reprint Heimathaus Irmintraut Fischerhude 1996
• Worpswede: the first Worpswede painters and their significance for German art, Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein 1955, Verlag Haus am Weyersberg Worpswede 1960, 9th edition 1975
• Legends from the land between Niederelbe and Niederweser, 2 volumes, self-published by the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, 1959, 1963

literature

• Biography in the Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History. A. Lax, 1970, pp. 342-343
• Festschrift for Hans Wohltmann on the completion of the 70th year of life on December 8, 1954, Stade: Self-published by the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein, 1954
• Experienced, told, researched: Festgabe for Hans Wohltmann on the completion of the 80th year of life on December 8, 1964, published on behalf of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein by Richard Drögereit, individual publications of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein No. 19

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Wohltmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lower Saxony Wikipedia (Low German)