Hermann Sand

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Hermann Sand (* March 2, 1940 - October 31, 2014 ) was a German author and local researcher .

Life

Hermann Sand studied psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). At the beginning of his studies he was active in the Corps Arminia Munich and reciprocated in 1960. He completed his studies as a qualified psychologist. With a dissertation on the subject of the demoscopic interview as a decision-making process , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a market researcher.

Since the 1990s Hermann Sand and his wife Ingrid offered guided tours on the history of the place and today's Munich district of Solln , where they had lived since 1983. In 1999 they published a book about Solln, which was followed by more. The Sollner Hefte series was self-published inma Marketing . It was devoted in detail to individual topics relating to the history of Solln and its residents , was financed by advertisements and distributed several times a year to the households in Solln. By the time he died, 79 issues had appeared, after which Ingrid Sand continued the series up to issue 88.

Hermann Sand was involved in the founding of the Sollner retailers' association Wir Sollner , which existed until 2017 and which also organized district festivals, the awarding of the Sollner Citizens' Prize, the establishment of the artists' group of Munich South, as well as the literary autumn of the city library and discussions in the Solln senior citizen and service center -Forstenried. After Dominik Brunner's murder , he worked together with the Dominik Brunner Foundation to erect the memorial at the Sollner train station.

Works (selection)

  • Hermann Sand, Ingrid Sand (Ed.): Solln - the city district book . Unverhau, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-923395-12-5 .
  • Sollner stories . inma Marketing, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-9807310-3-0 (co-author is Ingrid Sand).
  • Sollner views - the most beautiful village in Munich . inma Marketing, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-9807310-9-6 .
  • Hermann Sand (Ed.): Sollner Hefte . inma Marketing, Munich.

literature

  • In memoriam Dr. Hermann OT Sand . In: Sollner Hefte . No. 80 . inma Marketing, 2014, p. 48 .
  • Jürgen Wolfram: The last chapter. In: SZ.de. January 19, 2017, accessed December 13, 2018 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 5 , 920
personal data
SURNAME Sand, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1940
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 2014