Hermann Lorenz (local history researcher)

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Hermann Lorenz's house - Adelheidstrasse 12a in Quedlinburg

Hermann Lorenz (born June 15, 1860 in Weißensee (Thuringia) , † January 4, 1945 in Quedlinburg ) was a German director of studies, archivist and local history researcher.

Life

Hermann Lorenz came from the small Prussian town of Weißensee in the province of Saxony . During his studies in 1881 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in Leipzig . After receiving his doctorate, he became director of studies in the city of Quedlinburg and took over the management of the council archives on a voluntary basis. Until his age-related retirement in 1926, he was director of the GutsMuths-Realoberschule in Quedlinburg . Most recently he was city elder. At the same time he was chairman of the Quedlinburg History and Antiquity Society and the state archivist of the city of Quedlinburg. On November 1, 1938, he had to resign from the management of the council archives for reasons of age; the following year he also resigned from the position of state archivist. He died shortly before the end of the war on January 4, 1945.

In 1905/06 he had the villa Adelheidstrasse 12a built in Quedlinburg for himself .

He left numerous publications on local history.

Works (selection)

  • The annals of Hersfeld. Booch, Leipzig 1885 (dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1885).
  • History of the monastery and city of Quedlinburg (= Quedlinburg history. Vol. 1). City Council of Quedlinburg, Quedlinburg 1922.
  • History of the thousand-year-old imperial city of Quedlinburg. Schwanecke, Quedlinburg 1925.

literature

  • Rose Hellfaier: Quedlinburg and Quedlinburger in an exhibition in the Lippische Landesbibliothek . Selection and exhibition catalogs of the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold, Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold 7, Detmold 1977.
  • Eckhardt Sehmsdorf: In memoriam Hermann Lorenz. In: Quedlinburger Annalen 11 (2008), pp. 92-101.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 125.
  2. ^ Manfred Mittelstaedt, Quedlinburg , Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-89702-560-8 , page 68
personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director of studies, archivist and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißensee (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1945
Place of death Quedlinburg