Heinrich Nuhn

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Heinrich Nuhn (born February 11, 1938 in Niederaula , Kassel administrative district ) is a German contemporary historian, educator and non-fiction author. After working at the Jakob-Grimm-Schule in Rotenburg an der Fulda , he designed the Jewish Museum there in the former mikveh as curator , and has been its supervisor since 2006.

Life

Heinrich Nuhn studied English, German, modern history and politics in Marburg an der Lahn and Liverpool from 1958 to 1964 . From 1964 to 1966 he received a research grant from the Volkswagenwerk Foundation , and in 1989 he received his doctorate in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg. Nuhn worked as a teacher at the Jakob Grimm School in Rotenburg an der Fulda until 2003 , as well as a pedagogical assistant at the Hessian Institute for Teacher Training (HILF) in Bad Hersfeld . He has dealt intensively with Jewish and Nazi history as well as the social history of the region and has written numerous reports on it. He has also designed exhibitions on German overseas migration and Jewish regional history as well as multimedia projects and websites on these topics. He was instrumental in uncovering the Rotenburg Jewish ritual bath (mikveh) and in using it as a Jewish museum .

Heinrich Nuhn is an appointed member of the Commission for the History of the Jews in Hesse . In 2001 he was elected to the Hessische Akademie rural area (HAL) for the field of contemporary history , for which he worked as secretary on the board, in 2007 he was made an honorary member of the HAL.

Works (selection)

Nuhn has published several articles in magazines and is the editor of compilations on the history of the Jews in Hesse.

  • Elections and parties in the former Hersfeld district from 1867 to 1970 . A historical-analytical longitudinal study. Sources u. Research on Hessian history. Vol. 74. Darmstadt and Marburg 1990. ISBN 3-88443-163-3 .
  • The Rotenburg district in official reports from 1933 to 1936 . In: All about the Alheimer. History and stories. Vol. 12, 1990.
  • with Karl-Heinz Riemenschneider: 55 years later: The night when the synagogues burned . Accompanying publication to the 1993/1994 exhibition in the Jakob-Grimm-Schule Rotenburg, in the study center of the Hessian Finance Administration and Justice in Rotenburg and in the Brothers Grimm-School in Bebra on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Reichspogromnacht.
  • August Spies. A Hessian social revolutionary in America . Victims of the tragedy on the Chicago Haymarket 1886/87, Jenior & Pressler, Kassel 1992, 2., verb. Edition 1995. ISBN 3-928172-11-5 .
also accompanying book for the traveling exhibition "America - Hope and Illusion. The example of August Spies ”, which was shown in several German museums from 1992 to 1998.
  • The Jewish cemetery in Rotenburg . In: cultural history. Historic sites, monuments, forgotten places and museums in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Edited by Barbara Händler-Lachmann. Bad Hersfeld 1995. ISBN 3-9804841-0-6 .
  • Jiskor - remember . Contributions to the history of the Rotenburg Jews. Verlag AG trace search, Rotenburg ad F. 2. Erw. 1999 edition. ISBN 3-933734-03-7 .
also catalog for the exhibition Without a trace? 600 years of Jewish life in Rotenburg / Fulda, November 1998 in the town hall of Rotenburg
  • Sermons and baptisms of Jews - the example of Rotenburg an der Fulda . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Vol. 102, 1997. ISSN  0342-3107 .
  • "Here it goes up and down again - with axes all night". Rotenburg 1848 - the scene of anti-Jewish riots. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Vol. 103, 1998. ISSN  0342-3107 .
  • Traces of Jewish life . A tour through Rotenburg ad Fulda. Media and Dialogue Klaus Schubert, Haigerloch 2001. ISBN 3-933231-18-3 .
  • Baumbach's Jewish story . In: Working Group on Village History. 1000 years of Baumbach. A journey through time. Verlag AG Spurensuche, Rotenburg adF 2003. ISBN 3-933734-08-8 .
  • The mikveh in Rotenburg . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Vol. 110. 2005. ISSN  0342-3107 .
  • The Rotenburg mikveh. Cultural monument and testimony to the diversity of Jewish life . Verlag AG trace search, Rotenburg an der Fulda 2006, ISBN 3-933734-11-8 . * (as editor and editor :) Without a trace? 600 years of small-town and rural Jewish life in (forest) Hesse. Local traces in the Bad Hersfeld – Rotenburg area on the Fulda. Multimedia DVD, Verlag AG Spurensuche, Rotenburg ad F. 2008, ISBN 3-933734-05-3 .
  • The Rotenburg mikveh. In: Thea Altaras, Synagogues and Jewish ritual immersion baths in Hesse - What happened since 1945 ?, 2., updated, combined u. extended edition, from d. Estate ed. The Blue Books, Königstein i. Ts., Langewiesche publishing house 2007, ISBN 978-3-7845-7794-4 with Christoph Becker: Jewish life in Baumbach. A virtual tour. Multimedia DVD, Verlag AG Spurensuche, 2nd edition Rotenburg ad F. 2008, ISBN 3-933734-06-1 .
  • (as editor with Erhard Roy Wiehn and editor with Brigitte Meyer-Christ :) Chanan Hans Flörsheim, Over the Pyrenees in freedom. From Rotenburg an der Fulda via Leipzig to Amsterdam and through France and Spain to Israel 1923–1944. Hartung-Gorre Verlag Konstanz 2008, ISBN 3-86628-167-6 .
  • with Pascal Dreher: In front of everyone in Bebra and the surrounding area. Multimedia DVD, Verlag der Hassia Judaica, Rotenburg ad F. 2009
  • Stumbling blocks for Rosa Hahn and 14 other Hersfeld victims of the Holocaust. Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, Bad Hersfeld 2010
  • Jewish students of the Hersfeld Old Monastery School 1809 to 1937. Multimedia DVD, Konrad Duden School, Bad Hersfeld 2010
  • In memoriam. 28 Hersfeld victims of the Holocaust. Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, Bad Hersfeld 2011
  • Searching for traces and remembrance work on site - the example of Rotenburg an der Fulda. In: The persecution of the Jews during the Nazi era. Status and perspectives of documentation, communication and memory. Writings from the Hessian State Archives in Marburg. Vol. 24 Marburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-88964-205-9 .
  • with Pascal Dreher and Inge Nuhn: In Memoriam. 43 Rotenburg victims of the Holocaust . Hassia Judaica publishing house, Rotenburg ad F. 2011
  • Views that will never be forgotten again . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Volume 117/118, 2012/13 , ISSN  0342-3107

Awards / honors

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Hessian State Center for Political Education: Jewish Museum in the former mikveh - memorial and meeting place with a list of publications by H. Nuhn
  2. ^ Heinrich Nuhn: The Rotenburger Mikveh - cultural monument and testimony to the diversity of Jewish life ( memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Jewish Museum in the former mikveh
  3. ↑ Homepage of the Hessian Academy (HAL)

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personal data
SURNAME Nuhn, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German contemporary historian, pedagogue and non-fiction author, museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederaula , Kassel district