Heinz-Josef Adamski

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Heinz-Josef Adamski (born March 18, 1911 in Hildesheim ; † August 15, 2002 in Diekholzen ) was a German historian , folklorist and high school teacher .

Grave in Diekholzen.

Life

He was born as one of eight children to the businessman Josef Adamski and his wife Therese. After graduating from high school Josephinum in Hildesheim in 1931, he studied German, history and geography and ethnology at the universities of Innsbruck , Vienna , Berlin and Münster , where he completed his studies.

As a member of the pacifist peace society , he was an opponent of National Socialism , which endangered his degree and made it impossible for him to enter school. Therefore, he first attended a social science course, which he completed with a diploma in 1934 and then obtained his doctorate in Münster in 1939 on the subject of “The Guelph protection over the city of Hildesheim”. In 1939/40 he worked in the family maintenance office of the city of Hildesheim. In March 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , but did not return to the troops in March 1945 after the air raid on Hildesheim, which he witnessed while on holiday at the front.

Immediately after the end of the war, Adamski became politically active again. In 1946, the year Lower Saxony was founded, he was a co-founder and first chairman of the Hildesheimer Junge Union , the youth association of the CDU . From 1948 he completed his legal traineeship at the Humboldt School in Hanover and from 1949 was a teacher at his former school, Gymnasium Josephinum. There he taught history, German, geography and folklore and was in charge of the “Teutonia” school reading club, to which he himself had belonged as a student from 1927 to 1931. In 1973 he retired.

He was a member of the board and deputy chairman of the "Association for History and Art in the Diocese of Hildesheim" (previously: "Association for Local History"). Since 1960 he has published numerous art historical, regional history and biographical essays and books on the past of the city and the diocese of Hildesheim.

Adamski died on August 15, 2002 in Diekholzen and was buried there in the cemetery of the Catholic Church of St. James.

Fonts (selection)

  • Guelf protection over the city of Hildesheim (sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony; 48) . 1939
  • Bernward and Godehard von Hildesheim . 1960 (with Konrad Algermissen )
  • Bernward door at Hildesheim Cathedral . 1977, 5th edition 1997, ISBN 3-87065-099-0
  • Hildesheimsches: Mainly cheerful stories from the pot . 1978, 2nd edition 1984, ISBN 3-87065-164-4
  • The Christ column in Hildesheim Cathedral . 1979, 2nd edition 1993, ISBN 3-87065-559-3
  • The silverware of the Hildesheim prince-bishop Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen . 1982
  • Half-timbered houses in old Hildesheim . 1991, ISBN 3-87065-554-2
  • Even more Hildesheims: New stories from the pot . 1994, ISBN 3-89543-044-7

literature

  • German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical manual . Supplementary volume: The 20th century . Munich: KG Saur 2002, p. 35.
  • Hildesheim Literature Lexicon from 1800 to today . Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Olms 1996, pp. 17f., ISBN 3-487-10238-2
  • Gymnasium Josephinum Hildesheim: Report on the school year 1972/73 . Hildesheim 1973, p. 31f.
  • Hildesheim Yearbook for the City and Abbey of Hildesheim 75 (2003), pp. 270, 300

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ also on the following: Hildesheimer Literaturlexikon , p. 17; Gymnasium Josephinum , p. 31f.
  2. ^ Heinz-Josef Adamski: How I witnessed the bomb attack on Hildesheim on March 22nd, 1945 . In: Helmut von Jan : Alt-Hildesheim burned 25 years ago. In: Alt-Hildesheim 41 (1970), pp. 2-36
  3. ↑ s. Battle horse 18, No. 51 v. August 2006, p. 6
  4. ↑ Festschrift for the centenary of the "Teutonia" student reading club at the Josephinum Gymnasium in Hildesheim 1876-1976
  5. ↑ incorrectly dated in: Hildesheimer Literaturlexikon , p. 17
personal data
SURNAME Adamski, Heinz-Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, folklorist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2002
Place of death Diekholzen