Harry Black Forest

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Harry Schwarzwälder (during a business visit to a construction site in Bremen), 1969

Harry Schwarzwälder (born March 16, 1929 in Bremen ; † April 28, 2019 in Bremen) was a German homeland researcher .

Life

Harry Schwarzwälder, here viewing his recordings in his office in 1972

Harry Schwarzwälder was the younger brother of the Bremen historian Herbert Schwarzwälder (1919–2011). He worked as an administrative employee in the Office for Road and Bridge Construction of the City of Bremen and was responsible for Bremen's Weser bridges in the construction department for 36 years .

Since the mid-1960s, Schwarzwälder worked alongside and later in retirement as a local researcher and mainly carried out basic research on various topics in the history of the city of Bremen . He submitted numerous studies on Bremen's history, often self-published or in handwritten form. These include "ten volumes on the history of the Bürgerpark as well as a work on the senators , mayors and presidents of the Senate ." In the Bremisches Jahrbuch , the historical specialist journal of Bremen published by the Bremen Historical Society together with the Bremen State Archives , in 1978 until 2010 published several times both contributions by him and references to his work. His book from 1968 on the Weser bridges in Bremen is still considered a standard work today .

Example of a historical photograph from the "Harry Schwarzwälder Collection": Locomotive train of the "Jan Reiners" small railway , around 1905

In addition, he set up an extensive private archive of historical documents as well as a collection of historical photographs and postcards on Bremen's history, with the help of which he documented his research and from which he partly found the Bremen State Archives and the Bremen State and University Library as well as other institutions and Served museums such as the Focke Museum in Bremen and supported exhibitions etc. with loans.

In addition, Schwarzwälder has been collecting old and new, sometimes "strange" bottles of various types, colors, shapes, origins, materials, uses and times, etc. for decades, supported by his wife , and has a private collection of more than 6,000 Exhibits. Parts of his bottle collection have been exhibited to the public several times, for example in the Heimatmuseum Schloss Schönebeck in Bremen- Vegesack in 1992, in the Museum Soltau in the Lower Saxon city ​​of Soltau and in the Focke Museum in Bremen.

In his hometown of Bremen, he was committed to preserving local and regional history and the preservation of important historical objects. In 1999, for example, when he erected two restored sandstone lions' heads below the Wilhelm-Kaisen-Brücke on the promenade “ Untere Schlachte ”, he contributed to the correct historical classification - they were originally used to decorate the bulges on the river pillar on the old town side of the 1945 blown up and the Great Weser Bridge, which was demolished in 1960, and turned up again in 1998 during dredging work in the Weser . In 2000, Schwarzwälder got involved in the preparation of events on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the historic Bremen – Tarmstedt small railway (popularly known as "Jan Reiners") and, among other things, controlled a small-scale model of the locomotive of the Jan Reiners railway that he had recreated for exhibition purposes at. In 2008 he worked at the district archive of Bremer Neustadt on the creation of the exhibition “Bremen's Weser Bridges through the ages”, which was shown there from the end of the same year. On the initiative of him and the local politician Helmut Kasten, the advisory board of the Bremen district of Gröpelingen , in which the Black Forests lived with his family all his life, had a replica of a historical landmark from 1743 set up on the Schwarzen Weg in 2009 .

For his work, Schwarzwälder was awarded the Bremen Prize for Local History Research in 1978 and 1999 , and in 2014 he was honored with the prize for his life's work advertised by Wittheit zu Bremen and nine other affiliated associations :

"The basic research he does is hard-working, wonderful work."

- Hans Kloft : Vice President of Wittheit zu Bremen , April 15, 2014

Harry Schwarzwälder was married and had two children with his wife Heike. He died in 2019 at the age of 90 and was buried in the Waller Friedhof .

Awards and honors

  • 1978: Bremer Preis für Heimatforschung , for his study The improvement of the traffic conditions between Bremen and Burg at the beginning of the 19th century
  • 1999: Bremen Prize for Local Research, for his work on the life and work of the Bremen sculptor Diedrich Samuel Kropp (1824–1913)
  • 2014: Bremen Prize for Local Research, for his life's work as "Chronicler of Bremen's History"

Publications

  • Harry Schwarzwälder: The Weser Bridges in Bremen. Destiny from 1939–1948 (=  Bremen publications on contemporary history . No. 2 ). Schünemann Verlag , Bremen 1968, DNB  458913898 .
  • The road from Bremen to Oberneuland and Lilienthal. Bremen 1973 (typescript, in the Bremen State Archives ).
  • The improvement of the traffic conditions between Bremen and Burg at the beginning of the 19th century. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 56, 1978, pp. 65–203 ( digitized at the SuUB ).
  • Landmarks in Bremen's Werder and Blockland. The border marking according to the Second Stade Comparison of 1741. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 58, 1980, pp. 79-91 ( digitized at the SuUB ).
  • The weather pillar in front of the bishop's gate. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 66, 1988 (at the same time commemorative publication for Wilhelm Lührs and Klaus Schwarz ), pp. 341–363 ( digitized at the SuUB ).
  • Diedrich Samuel Kropp. In: Bürgerparkverein Bremen (Ed.): Information sheet of the Bürgerparkverein , Bremen 1997, pp. 30–38.
  • Life and work of the sculptor Diedrich Samuel Kropp. 1824-1913. In: Bürgerparkverein Bremen (Ed.): Information sheet of the Bürgerparkverein , Bremen 1998.
  • A forgotten sculptor from Bremen. In: Axel Behne, Oliver Gradel (Hrsg.): To be human and to benefit people. Hermann Allmers and his artist friends. Catalog for the exhibition in the 100th year of Hermann Allmers' death (=  Kranichhaus-Schriften , Volume 4). District of Cuxhaven , Hagen in June 2002, ISBN 3-934100-04-X (in the archive of the district of Cuxhaven).
  • The burial system in Bremen in the 19th century. Volume 1-4. Self-published, Bremen 2002 (1639 pages in total; in the library of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and in the Bremen State and University Library ).
  • Attempt to portray the life and work of the sculptor Carl Steinhäuser . 1813-1879. Self-published, Bremen 2004 (in the library of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and in the Bremen State and University Library).

Web links

Commons : Harry Schwarzwälder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Volker Junck: New family ties under the sign of the lions. Unknown relatives found themselves over the stone heads . In: Weser courier . February 12, 1999, p. 19 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e (JH): Heimatforscher Schwarzwälder dead . In: Weser courier . June 3, 2019, p. 7 (obituary).
  3. ↑ a b c d Sigrid Schuer: Commitment to history appreciated. The Wittheit zu Bremen awards seven hobby historians a prize for local research . In: Weser courier . April 16, 2014, p. 10 .
  4. ↑ Cf. “List of hits on Harry Schwarzwälder” in the Bremen Yearbook in the digital collections of the Bremen State and University Library ; accessed on June 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b (wel): Bottle parade in the castle. Harry Schwarzwälder shows parts of his extensive collection . In: The North German . February 19, 1992, p. 1 .
  6. ↑ a b Uta Gellert: "Bottle empty" fills a wall unit. Harry Schwarzwälder and his wife Heike hoard hollow vessels for storing liquids - the couple has accumulated more than 6000 “diggers” over the years . In: Supplement "Extra" by the Weser-Kurier . May 25, 2004, p. 1 .
  7. ↑ Birgit Krieger: Nurse gives schnapps instead of milk. Harry Schwarzwälder has a passion for curious bottles . In: District Courier , West Edition . August 31, 2006, p. 1 .
  8. ↑ Karina Skwirblies: Anniversary of the Jan Reiners Railway in preparation. First meeting of friends and associations / move from Bremen to Tarmstedt planned . In: Wümme newspaper . April 3, 2000, p. 2 .
  9. ↑ Alena Hecker: A bridge to the past. Neustadt district archive dedicates a new exhibition to Bremen's most important nine Weser crossings . In: District Courier , edition Links der Weser / Süd . November 17, 2008, p. 1 .
  10. ↑ Anne Gerling: The stone obelisk goes back to the year 1741. The Gröpelingen advisory board has over 200-year-old boundary stones reworked and placed in a historical location . In: District Courier , West Edition . September 7, 2009, p. 1 .
  11. ↑ Anne Gerling: Stein recalls the struggle for independence . In: District Courier , West Edition . December 13, 2010, p. 4 .
  12. ↑ a b Three lay researchers are honored . In: Weser courier . November 18, 1978, p. 16 . Three lay researchers were honored . In: Weser courier . November 21, 1978, p.
     15 .
  13. ↑ a b Petra Spangenberg: Again price for home researcher. Sponsors: Jutta Böning and Harry Schwarzwälder / associations as donors . In: Weser courier . July 14, 1999, p. 13 .
  14. ↑ See family reports and official notices from the Bremen registry office in the Weser-Kurier of June 24, 1965 (p. 6) and August 25, 1967 (p. 18) as well as of August 5, 1971 (p. 17).
  15. ↑ (ST): Festschrift for two archivists. Bremisches Jahrbuch 1988 with a large number of contributions . In: Weser courier . July 20, 1988, p. 22 .
personal data
SURNAME Black Forests, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2019
Place of death Bremen