Herbert Reyer
Herbert Reyer (born June 18, 1949 in Witzenhausen ) was chief archive director and head of the archive and libraries department of the city of Hildesheim until 2014, as well as honorary professor at the University of Hildesheim .
Life
After studying history , mathematics , art didactics , political science and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Göttingen, Reyer passed the examination for teaching at primary and secondary schools in 1975 and that for teaching at grammar schools in 1981. From 1977 to 1982 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen, where he worked on the Germania Judaica research project . In 1982, he was by Hans Patze Dr. phil. PhD. 1983 to 1985 Reyer was an archive trainee in the Lower Saxony archives service and completed training as a scientific archivist at the Osnabrück State Archives , the Federal Archives in Koblenz and the Institute for Archival Studies in Marburg . He passed the archival state examination in April 1985 and then became archivist or archivist and deputy archivist at the Lower Saxony State Archives in Aurich . In 1991 he was promoted to senior archivist there. In February 1992 he became deputy archive manager at the Lower Saxony State Archive in Osnabrück and in September of the same year archive director and head of the city archive and the city library of Hildesheim. From the winter semester 2001/2002 to the winter semester 2002/2003 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Restoration at the University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen and since the winter semester 1995/96 a lecturer at the University of Hildesheim. He became chief archive director and head of the archives and libraries department of the city of Hildesheim in 2002. On December 17, 2003 he was appointed honorary professor at the university there.
Reyer was editor of the magazine Hildesheimer Jahrbuch for the city and monastery of Hildesheim ( ISSN 0944-3045 ). Michael Schütz has been his successor since 2015.
Offices and memberships
- 1986 to 1992 head of the working group “History of the Jews in East Frisia” at the East Frisian Landscape
- since 1989 appointed member and since 1997 secretary of the working group "History of the Jews" of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen
- since 1989 appointed member of the Society for Research into the History of Jews in Germany
- since 1991 member of the state examination committee for the senior archive service at the Lower Saxony State Chancellery
- since 2002 archivist in the board of trustees of the Ludwigstein Youth Castle Foundation and the Archive of the German Youth Movement, Witzenhausen
Awards
- Upstalsboom thaler of the East Frisian landscape for special services to research into the history of East Frisia
Individual evidence
- ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences 2006/2007, p. 562
Publications
- The village community in northern Hesse. Investigations into the Hessian village constitution in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies 38. NG Elwert, Marburg 1982, ISBN 978-3-7708-0748-2
- A short history of the city of Hildesheim. D. Lax, Hildesheim 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 978-3-8269-6300-1
- From the impoverished country town to the “Nuremberg of the North”. Aspects of urban development and the maintenance of the cityscape of Hildesheim in the Hanover period. In: Danny Borchert / Christien Lamschus (ed.): The city for adornment. De Sulte 20th Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7675-3083-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Herbert Reyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Prof. Reyer at the Institute for History of the University of Hildesheim (also basic source)
- Report with photo of the appointment as honorary professor
- Herbert Reyer: Am Kinderkreuz An old field name west of Witzenhausen. at suehnekreuz.de
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SURNAME | Reyer, Herbert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German archivist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1949 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Witzenhausen |