Hellmut Bilz

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Hellmut Bilz (* July 12, 1924 , † April 27, 2008 ) was a German museologist, ethnographer and local researcher .

Life

From 1954 to 1989, Hellmut Bilz was director of the toy museum in Seiffen in the Ore Mountains , which was newly founded after the Second World War , and which at that time took over the part of the old toy collections held by Johannes Eichhorn , the chairman of the Seiffen local group of the GDR cultural association and local representative for the preservation of monuments. Bilz was responsible for creating “a mass-effective center documenting the latest research and museology, which historically accurately depicts Seiffen production in old and new times and works closely with socialist industry and craft.” He succeeded . He increased the museum's holdings to over 12,000 exhibits, which were viewed by around 275,000 visitors each year. In addition, from 1974 onwards he tried to build the newly created open-air museum in Seiffen.

As a student of Paul Nedo , he graduated from the Humboldt University in Berlin with a degree in ethnography. In Wolfgang Jacobeit as thesis advisor, he was in 1986 with a study of the technology and the history of the tire turning to Dr. phil. PhD . In addition, as a member of the SED, he was also active in cultural policy in close cooperation with the Kulturbund of the GDR, the council of the Seiffen community and the council of the Marienberg district . For Manfred Bachmann , Hellmut Bilz was “a highlight of the museum system in the GDR”.

Fonts (selection)

Hellmut Bilz presented numerous popular scientific publications on Erzgebirge folklore and local history and founded the scientific museum series of the Seiffen Toy Museum.

These include:

  • The redesign of the Erzgebirge Toy Museum in Seiffen . In: Neue Museumskunde , Berlin, Vol. 12 (1969), pp. 237-254
  • The tire lathe trade in the Seiffen toy area. An investigation into the possibilities of its creation . In: Our home , Marienberg, 1970, No. 12, pp. 8-12
  • Seiffen tire animals - production, design, meaning . Erzgebirge Toy Museum Seiffen 1984.
  • Erzgebirge Folk Art (English), 2000

Honors

  • 1979 Culture Prize of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district
  • 1984 Appointment to the Obermuseumsrat by the GDR Minister for Culture

literature

  • Johannes Eichhorn : The Seiffen Open Air Museum . In: Der Heimatfreund for the Erzgebirge, Stollberg, 20 (1975), issue 4, pp. 85-88.
  • Hellmut Bilz: Johannes Eichhorn on his 75th birthday . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 25 (1979), Heft 3, S. 132. ISSN  0486-8234
  • Manfred Bachmann : Collector and sponsor of Seiffen folk art: Hellmut Bilz on the "60th" on July 12, 1984 . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter, 30 (1984), issue 5, p. 239. ISSN  0486-8234
  • Konrad Auerbach: Museum identity and research. Dr. Hellmut Bilz on his 80th birthday . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , 26 (2004), Heft 4, 2004, pp. 16-17. ISSN  0232-6078
  • Konrad Auerbach: Museum identity and research. Dr. Hellmut Bilz in memory. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 54 (2008), Heft 2, p. 163. ISSN  0486-8234

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Manfred Bachmann : Collector and sponsor of Seiffen folk art: Hellmut Bilz on the "60th" on July 12, 1984 . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 30, No. 5, 1984, p. 239.
personal data
SURNAME Bilz, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German museologist, ethnographer and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1924
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2008