Herbert Lepper

Herbert Lepper (born July 9, 1935 in Elsdorf ; † June 24, 2014 in Aachen ) was a German archivist and historian .

Lepper received his doctorate in 1967 with Max Braubach at the University of Bonn with the thesis The political currents in the administrative district of Aachen at the time of the establishment of the Empire and the culture war 1867-1887 . From 1972 to 1997 he was head of the Aachen city archive . In addition, he took on a teaching position at RWTH Aachen University and headed the City of Aachen's International Newspaper Museum for several years . In addition, Lepper was elected chairman of the Aachen History Association from 1984 to 1995 and then its honorary chairman.

Herbert Lepper was married and had two daughters, including the Egyptologist Verena Lepper .

Fonts (selection)

• The political currents in the administrative district of Aachen at the time of the founding of the Empire and the Kulturkampf 1867–1887 . Bonn 1967 (= dissertation, unprinted).
• Social Catholicism in Aachen. Sources on the history of the workers' association of St. Paul for Aachen and Burtscheid 1869–1878 . Cooling, Mönchengladbach 1977.
• The International Newspaper Museum of the City of Aachen . Metz, Aachen 1986.
• The unity of the sciences: the failed attempt to found a "Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften" in the years 1907-1910 , Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1987, ISBN 978-3-531-05089-8 , series: Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälische Academy of Sciences  ; Vol. 75
• From emancipation to the Holocaust. The Israelite Synagogue Community of Aachen (2 vol.). Meyer, Aachen 1994.

items

• Franz Eduard Cronenberg and the Christian Social Movement in Aachen 1868–1878 . In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein 79, 1968, pp. 57–148.
• The General Assembly of Catholics in Germany from September 8 to 11, 1879 in Aachen . In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein 80, 1970, pp. 235–242.
• Imperial city and church. The disputes over the constitution of the Aachen broadcasting court in the age of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canonical Department 97, 1980, pp. 371–392.
• From the city library to the public library of the city of Aachen . In: Aachen, Public Library 150 Years . Aachen 1981, pp. 5-77.
• From honorary association to party organization. A contribution to the “democratization” of the center in the Rhineland 1898–1906 . In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 48, 1984, pp. 238–274.

literature

• Thomas R. Kraus : List of publications by Dr. Herbert Lepper . In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein 102, 1999/2000, pp. 533-562.

Web links

• Dr. Herbert Lepper: archivist and historian with passion , in Aachener Zeitung from July 4, 2014
• Obituary Herbert Lepper , on the website of the city of Aachen