Heinrich Winter (historian)

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Heinrich Winter (born October 4, 1898 in Mainz , † January 17, 1964 in Bensheim ) was a German historian and local researcher .

Career and work

Heinrich Winter is the son of the railway secretary Heinrich Winter and his wife Katharina, b. Fink, his younger brother, was the later sculptor Adam Winter (1903–1978). Due to a transfer of the father to Darmstadt , the family moved to Darmstadt-Bessungen in 1901 . Heinrich Winter attended the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium there . As a war volunteer, he served on the Western Front from January 1917 to November 1918 . As an infantryman he was before Verdun . In June 1917 he received the Iron Cross . While on leave from the front, he graduated from high school shortly before the end of the war. After the war, he first studied hydraulic engineering at the TH Darmstadt , but graduated on October 3, 1922 with the civil engineering exam. His first local history publication appeared in 1927. It is a work on the history of architecture and art about Gernsheim and Maria Einsiedel . He began working on Marie Einsiedel in 1924. This was followed by essays on Heppenheim . This city was also the subject of his dissertation . On July 4, 1934 he was on the subject of Heppenheim adB The gradual expansion of the city center Heppenheim. Description and building history of the Kurmainzer Amtshof under Heinrich Walbe's doctorate . Walbe had a great influence on the later work of Winter. After that, Winter devoted himself more to folkloric art and customs research. He undertook numerous study and research trips and conducted surveys on annual customs in the Odenwald , on Bergstrasse and in the Hessian Ried at 49 locations. In 1941 he conducted ethnological surveys in resettlement camps of Dobrudscha Germans , which later appeared in several yearbooks of this ethnic group . From 1943 to 1945 he conducted surveys of village elders at 250 locations in the Starkenburg region .

After completing his studies, Winter first worked as a lecturer at the Rheinisches Technikum in Bingen. Afterwards he was a commercial studies advisor in Gernsheim, Offenbach am Main , Heppenheim and Bensheim. After the Second World War , Winter was a lecturer in building history at the Darmstadt State Building School , today's Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . In October 1959 he was appointed senior building officer. At the beginning of the winter semester 1963/64 he was retired.

In the last years of his life he devoted his work to French half-timbered houses and town houses. Due to his sudden death, he could no longer complete this work. He died in the Auerbach district of the city of Bensheim.

Winter is considered to be the most important local researcher in Heppenheim. His estate includes over 200 folders of research material, around 60,000 photos and 15,000 slides. His bibliography includes 655 works. On January 17, 1964, Winter died of a heart condition. His grave is in the Darmstadt forest cemetery (grave number: L 12a 52). After the death of his wife Ottilie, his estate was handed over to the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt , where it is still kept today.

family

On June 23, 1923, Winter married Gertrud Müller in Bingen. This marriage produced four children: Hildegard (* 1924), Heinz (1925–1944), Klemens (1926–1967) and Maria (* 1928). His first wife died on July 10, 1947. The following year, on October 9, he married Ottilie Kirsch († November 21, 1989) from Mainz.

Honors

In Bensheim, Heppenheim and Gernsheim a street is named after Heinrich Winter. In Heppenheim since 1965 the Dr.-Heinrich-Winter-Straße , in Bensheim the Heinrich-Winter-Weg and in Gernsheim the Dr.-Heinrich-Winter-Straße . On the occasion of Heppenheim's 1200th anniversary in 1955, Winter received a gold ring from the city council for services to the city. The ring bears the inscription: "The true old cultural property - the grateful city of Heppenheim". In Heppenheim's town hall there is a bust of Heinrich Winter, which was unveiled on the 25th anniversary of his death.

Publications (selection)

  • The beautiful Heppenheim - its monuments and its history. 3rd edition, Baumeister & Hilkert, 1969, 134 pp.
  • The farmhouse in the southern Odenwald before the 30 Years War. Burkhardt-Verlag Ernst Heyer, Essen, 1957, 149 pp.
  • Homeland heritage. Volume 1, Verlag Buchdruckerei Otto KG in Heppenheim, 200 pp.
  • Street lighting in old Heppenheim. In: The Starkenburg. Volume 37, 1960
  • Turmhügel, Burgstadel, Weierhäuser and pigeon houses. In: The Starkenburg. 1957
  • 1200 years of Heppenheim. In memory of the first written mention of Heppenheim on July 17th, 755th Magistrate of the district town of Heppenheim (ed.)
  • Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse. A mirror of the centuries. In: The Odenwald. Volume 2, 1955, pp. 71-74.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Eva Haberkorn: Estate of Dr. Heinrich Winter 1898–1964 Repertories from the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt, Department O 62, 2003.
  2. ↑ a b c Rolf Reutter: Heinrich Winter unforgotten. In: History sheets district Bergstrasse. Volume 22, 1989 p. 262-267.
  3. ↑ Rolf Reutter: Heinrich Winter and his work at: suehnekreuz.de, accessed on April 1, 2016
  4. ^ Rolf Reutter: Heinrich Winter and his work. In: Paul Schnitzer, Ferdinand Koob (ed.): History sheets for the Bergstrasse district. 1968, pp. 4-9.
  5. ^ Ferdinand Koob: Dr. Heinrich Winter in memory. In: Paul Schnitzer, Ferdinand Koob (ed.): History sheets for the Bergstrasse district. 1968, p. 4.
  6. ↑ a b c fk: From the ice rink to the residential street In: Bergsträßer Anzeiger from August 22, 2011
  7. ↑ a b c Bibliography Dr. Heinrich Winter. In: History sheets of the district Bergstrasse 1 Heppenheim, 1968
  8. ↑ sl: estate of Dr. Heinrich Winter is kept in the State Archives. In: Bergsträßer Anzeiger from December 20, 1989
  9. ^ Heinrich-Winter-Weg in Bensheim, accessed on February 1, 2020
  10. ↑ Dr.-Heinrich-Winter-Straße in Gernsheim, accessed on February 1, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1964
Place of death Bensheim