Herbert Röhrig

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Herbert Röhrig (born March 4, 1903 in Hanover ; † April 7, 1977 there ) was a German homeland researcher , lawyer , businessman and chairman of the Lower Saxony Heimatbund .

Life

Born in Hanover at the time of the German Empire as the son of a businessman, Herbert Röhrig attended the Goethe-Gymnasium in Hanover at around the same time as the later actor Theo Lingen, who was born in the same year . But Röhrig already made a name for himself as a schoolboy by publishing his own articles on topics from the history of the city of Hanover and the history of the former Kingdom of Hanover in various Hanover daily newspapers in protest against the Prussian- oriented history lessons .

After graduating from high school, Röhrig studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , where he received the title of Dr. jur. through his legal and political dissertation on the Saxon-Thuringian criminal law in the 19th century .

Following his studies, Röhrig completed a commercial apprenticeship in an industrial company in Hamburg .

After the death of his father in 1930, Herbert Röhrig took over the company W. Röhrig & Sohn, a wholesaler for paints and chemical raw materials, which had already been founded by his grandfather . At the same time, he took on numerous honorary positions in various professional associations . However, Röhrig gained importance primarily through his commitment to the interests of his homeland , its nature and history as well as the care of the homeland.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Herbert Roehrig developed from 1934 a new concept for the then in 1937 in the former Palais Simon reopened Trade and Industry Museum (see below) of the Chamber of Commerce Hannover , as its member, he more than four decades in the General Assembly acted .

After the destruction caused by the air raids on Hanover in World War II , Herbert Röhrig was one of the co-founders of the Hanover Development Association , which was founded in 1945 with the approval of the British military authorities , and was later elected chairman . In this function Röhrig fought "[...] for the best possible reconstruction of his hometown". In addition, during the 16 years of his membership in the Eilenriede advisory board, he was committed to the preservation of the Hanover city forest.

From 1956 to 1975 Herbert Röhrig was chairman of the Lower Saxony Homeland Federation (NHB), the umbrella organization for homeland care in Lower Saxony. At the same time, he headed the Kulturring Hannover as chairman from 1958 and also until 1975 .

"[...] As an excellent expert on the country [Herbert Röhrig] became the central figure of the Lower Saxony homeland movement, without ignoring the necessary progress". While on the one hand he advocated homeland research through laypersons , on the other hand he gave homeland care a profile, for example with the “red folder” he introduced in 1961 for the annual reports, which became the “ trademark ” of the NHB. He was also known for his historical collections and published numerous works himself.

Herbert Röhrig remained rooted in his Hanover homeland, but was open to the world and traveled a lot. His burial took place on the high seas .

Honors

Works (selection)

  • East Frisia . The country around the Upstalsboom , Bremen: Friesen-Verlag, 1927
  • Tidde Winnenga. A story about the dollar slump , Leer-Ostfriesland: DH Zöpfs & Sohn, [1930]
  • Sacred lines through East Friesland (= work on regional studies and economic history of East Friesland , volume 5), Aurich: AHF Dunkmann, 1930
  • The Hanover Trade and Industry Museum. What it wants and how it should be (= Wirtschaftsblatt Niedersachsen , year 1934, number 19/20), Hanover: Trade and Industry Museum of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry, [1934]
  • From the work and work of the commercial agent , Hamburg: Hanseat. Verl. Ant., 1938
  • We sales agents and the represented companies. A commercial and human consideration. Edited by the research association for the commercial agent trade brokerage, Braunschweig: Limbach, 1957
  • Hanover. Becoming and growing out of landscape and location , Hanover: Dorn (1958)
  • Johann Duve . Rise and fall of the first Hanoverian entrepreneur . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Neue Episode 15 (1961), pp. 225-280
  • Rescue of Rundlingen in the Hanoverian Wendland , with the supplement by Ernst Preising: The landscape of the Wendland and its peculiarities , from: "Lower Saxony". Magazine for home and culture . 1969, issue 4, Hildesheim: Lax, 1969
  • Let the citizens of their Eilenriede , from: Journal of Lower Saxony , 1971, Issue 3, published by the Lower Saxony Heimatbund e. V., Hanover, 1971
  • Klosterfonds and Klosterkammer , Hanover: Self-published Alleehof 3 , 1971

as editor:

  • Hanoverian red coats in Greece. the diary of Ensign Zehe in the Turkish Wars 1685 - 1688 (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 84), Hildesheim: Lax, 1975

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library lists an extensive bibliography of Röhrig's numerous writings .

Literature (selection)

  • HJ Fricke: Herbert Röhrig 70 years , in: Zeitschrift Niedersachsen , ed. from the Lower Saxony Heimatbund, April 1973 edition, p. 357f.
  • Georg Schnath : Dr. Herbert Röhrig , in: Zeitschrift Niedersachsen , ed. from the Lower Saxony Heimatbund, April 1977 edition, p. 42f.
  • Otto Wilhelm: Bibliography of Lower Saxony and Bremen. Regional Studies and Regional Development, Economy, Culture, State , Part 2: 1962 to 1965 (= publications of the Lower Saxony Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Development at the University of Göttingen , also publications of the Economic Society for the Study of Lower Saxony . Series A, 1, Vol. 90), Hildesheim: Lax in commission, 1968, p. 1647
  • Otto Wilhelm: Bibliography of Lower Saxony and Bremen. Regional Studies and Regional Development, History, Economy, Culture, State , Part 3: 1966 to 1970 , Vol. 1–2, (= publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Development at the University of Göttingen , also publications of the Economic Society for the Study of Lower Saxony . Series A, 1, Vol. 103, 1–2), edited with the support of the Lower Saxony State Library Hanover. Göttingen: Göttinger Tageblatt in commission, 1974, p. 3803
  • Reinhard Oberschelp (edit.): Lower Saxony bibliography. Reporting year 1908 to 1970. Systematisches Gesamtverzeichnis , Vol. 5, Mainz-Kastel: Gaertner 1985, p. 293
  • NN : Bibliography of Lower Saxony . Ed .: Lower Saxony State Library Hanover. Vol. 1-19. Reporting year 1971 to 1999. Hildesheim: Lax (vol. 8 ff .: Hameln: CW Niemeyer) 1974–2004, p. 3212

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library names Lower Saxon people in its online database (see there, new entry required) instead of honorary membership in the IHK from 1973 onwards, the one in the Lower Saxony Homeland Association

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Röhrig, Herbert , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 298f .; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Röhrig, Herbert in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version dated November 24, 2014
  3. ^ Sandy Apelt: Herbert Röhrig. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
  4. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
  5. ↑ Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt: Seltenes Schiffsdokumentet, In: Blatt No. 231 from March 1969, p. 3, accessed on February 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Röhrig, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher, lawyer, businessman and chairman of the Lower Saxony Heimatbund
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1977
Place of death Hanover