Hedwig Brüchert

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Hedwig Brüchert (born January 15, 1945 in Leitmeritz , Bohemia ) is a German historian at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Hedwig Brüchert studied Medieval and Modern History, Sociology and Pedagogy in Mainz from 1981 to 1986, completing a Magister Artium in 1987. phil. followed in 1993.

Since 1995, Brüchert has worked as a research assistant with Michael Matheus at the History Department of the Johannes Gutenberg University and at the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz . Her main research interests are urban social policy (late 19th / early 20th century); Women's work in the 19th and 20th Century; National Socialism in the area of ​​today's Rhineland-Palatinate; Post war period; History of the Mainz Jews in the 20th Century; Biography research, forced labor during the Second World War in the Mainz-Wiesbaden area.

In 1983 she was one of the founders of the Verein für Sozialgeschichte Mainz eV, which since then has published around 30 publications (the "Mainzer Geschichtsblätter" and special editions), which Hedwig Brüchert is still editorially responsible for. In addition, she was actively involved in several historical exhibitions that the association prepared on behalf of the city of Mainz; also on the development of the thematic city tours and the organization of the stumbling blocks in Mainz.

In 1996, together with others, she founded the Förderverein Stadthistorisches Museum Mainz eV, which built up the Stadthistorisches Museum Mainz from 2000, of which she was the honorary director until 2015 and in which she is still active. Since it was founded, she has also been the honorary managing director of the association.

In 2013, Brüchert initiated the establishment of the City History Museum Mainz Foundation and has been the Chair of the Foundation Board since then. She has also been a member of the board of the Anni Eisler Lehmann Foundation for many years. In 2015 she was one of the founders of the Foundation House of Remembrance - for Democracy and Acceptance, which opened a memorial and work place at Flachsmarktstrasse 36 in April 2018.

On December 4, 2018, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded the Federal Cross of Merit .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Hedwig Brüchert. In: igl.uni-mainz.de. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Home. Association for Social History Mainz eV, accessed on January 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ City History Museum Mainz. In: stadtmuseum-mainz.de. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Board of Directors and Advisory Board. In: stiftung-stadtmuseum-mainz.de. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The Mainz opera singer Anni Eisler-Lehmann 1904-1999. Anni Eisler-Lehmann-Stiftung Mainz, accessed on January 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Federal President honors Mainz historian with an Order of Merit. In: focus.de. December 4, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b c Dr. phil. Hedwig Brüchert. In: rlp-forschung.de. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Award of the "Future needs memory" medal . In: bundespraesident.de. December 4, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brüchert, Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brüchert-Schunk, Hedwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Leitmeritz , Bohemia