Horst Gnettner
Horst Gnettner (born August 3, 1926 in Silesia ; † January 13, 2003 in Hamburg ) was a German educator and local researcher.
biography
Gnettner was the son of a pastor who died in a Polish internment camp in 1945. After serving as a soldier and prisoner of war during World War II , he worked as a teacher in the Soviet occupation zone, which he left in the late 1940s. He studied pedagogy in Lüneburg and then worked as a special school teacher in Bremen - Schönebeck am Fichtenhof . Then he was a secondary school teacher in Ritterhude .
Gnettner had been active in the Vegesack Heritage and Museum Association since 1958 . Here he arranged u. a. the coin collection. From 1972 to 1986 he was vice chairman and then from 1986 to 1999 chairman of the association and thus director of the Schönebeck Palace Museum . He resigned from the chair in the context of the discussion about the relocation of the museum to the warehouse in Haven Höövt Vegesack . He published various works on the industrial history of the region.
Gnettner was married.
Honors
- Bremen Prize for Local Research (1970)
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (April 18, 1996)
- Posthumously again Bremen Prize for Local Research (2003)
Works
- Stoneware factory Witteburg in Farge near Bremen . Vegesack 1985.
- A chapter of the industrial history of Bremen North. In: Lebensraum Bremen-Nord , Jahrbuch der Wittheit zu Bremen Volume 31/1989, Döll-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-88808-132-7 .
- Emergency money in Bremen-Nord 1914-1923 . Edited by the Heimatmuseum Schloß Schönebeck, Bremen 1989
- The Bremen researcher Gerhard Rohlfs. From dropout to consul general. A biography . edition lumière, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-934686-33-8 .
- with Tim Allagabo: The Mohr of Weimar describes the fate of a Bongo Negro based on letters from the Africa researcher Gerhard Rohlfs . Ed: Museum Schloss Schönebeck, Bremen 2002.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Gnettner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gnettner, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pedagogue and local researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 2003 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |