Hermann Schmitt (teacher)

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Hermann Schmitt (born August 29, 1888 in Horchheim near Worms ; † October 14, 1974 in Worms ) was a German high school teacher , church historian from the Rhine-Hesse region and local researcher.

Life

Hermann Schmitt attended high school in Mainz , where Heinrich Schrohe was his teacher. Hermann Schmitt completed his studies in Classical Philology and History in Gießen in 1913 with a doctorate. After military service and imprisonment, Schmitt became a teacher at the grammar school in Worms in 1919 . Because of criticism of National Socialism he was transferred to the grammar school in Mainz in 1933. Since 1942 Schmitt taught at the high school for boys in Rüsselsheim . In 1945 he returned to the Worms grammar school as the new director. In 1947 he was one of the founding members of the Society for Middle Rhine Church History . He was retired in 1953 and died in 1974.

Hermann Schmitt dedicated himself particularly to the history of the former diocese of Worms . In addition to biographical articles on Worms bishops, auxiliary bishops and pastors, he published a. a. two studies on the history of individual parishes. He also wrote a history of the Mainz high school and a history of the villages of Horchheim, Weinsheim and Wiesoppenheim near Worms. His estate is in the cathedral and diocesan archive in Mainz .

Publications (selection)

A complete compilation can be found at Joachim Schalk: Publications by Hermann Schmitt . In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History 27, 1975, pp. 260–264.

  • History of Horchheim, Weinsheim and Wies-Oppenheim. Worms 1910.
  • Worms brotherhoods. In: Wormatia sacra. Contributions to the history of the former diocese of Worms . Worms 1925, pp. 61-69.
  • The patronage of the churches and chapels in the former diocese of Worms. In: Wormatia sacra. Contributions to the history of the former diocese of Worms . Worms 1925. pp. 101-120.
  • The Mainz high school. Building blocks for its 375 year history (1561–1936). Mainz publishing house, Mainz 1937.
  • Liebfrauen in Worms. Abbey and church according to a visitation protocol from 1718/19. In: The Wormsgau . Vol. 3 Issue 7, 1958, pp. 433-452.
  • Hermann Schmitt: pontifical acts of the Worms auxiliary bishops on churches, altars, bells, cultural implements (1716–96). In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History Vol. 10 (1958) pp. 299–337. on-line
  • Holy Cross in Horchheim near Worms. Pastor and parish in the 18th century. In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History Vol. 17 (1965) pp. 294–333 (= Part I) and Vol. 18 (1966) pp. 329–365 (= Part II).
  • The parishes of St. Amandus (until 1802) and Liebfrauen (1803–1811) in the northern suburb of Worms. In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History Vol. 24 (1972) pp. 27–66.
  • with Joachim Schalk: A visitation of the Worms pencils in 1669. In: Der Wormsgau 15, 1987/91, pp. 45–58.

literature

  • Otto Jochem, Jakob Franz: Hermann Schmitt (1888–1974) . In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History 27, 1975, pp. 257–260.
  • Fritz Reuter: Worms historian, art historian and local researcher from the 19th and 20th centuries. Century in pictorial representations . In: Der Wormsgau Vol. 20 (2001), pp. 127–142, therein p. 138.
  • Burkard Keilmann, Margit Rinker-Olbrisch: Deo - patriae - moribus - studiis. Contributions to the history of the Worms grammar school. (= Der Wormsgau , supplement 39). Worms 2005, ISBN 3-9809002-5-8 , p. 62 and p. 99-101 (there further literature on Schmitt).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martina Knichel: The Society for Middle Rhine Church History. History of its 50th anniversary . Mainz 1998, p. 50 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher, church historian and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Horchheim near Worms
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1974
Place of death Worms