Horst Schmid-Schickhardt

Horst Schmid-Schickhardt (around 2009)

Horst Schmid-Schickhardt (born as Horst Schmid ; * May 7, 1937 in Tübingen ; † August 17, 2016 there ) was a German banker and Schickhardt researcher.

Life

Horst Schmid-Schickhardt in the Leonberger bitter orange garden , a work by Heinrich Schickhardt (around 2006)

Horst Schmid was a son of the Wehrmacht officer, most recently in the rank of lieutenant colonel, Gerhard Schmid (1898–1980) and his wife Marianne geb. Schickhardt (1906-1992). Both of his parents were direct descendants of Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder : the father in the 13th generation, the mother from the Schickhardt line from Stuttgart to Strasbourg in the 11th generation. The father's line went through the builder Heinrich Schickhardt , his son Johannes Schickhardt and the granddaughter Brigitta Hiller nee. Schickhardt and the philosophy professor Johann Christoph Schwab ; The mother's line through Lucas Schickhardt (III.) , His great-grandchild Andreas Schickhardt and his son Joseph Israel Schickhardt. In 1954, in order to express the bond with the Schickhardt family to the outside world, the parents applied to the Tübingen regional council for a name extension for the whole family. The name Schmid-Schickhardt was officially given to them on August 18, 1954.

Horst Schmid-Schickhardt grew up in Saarbrücken , later in St. Goar , where he graduated from high school at the Hoffmann boarding school at Katz Castle . From 1954 to 1957 he attended the business school in Reutlingen , where his parents had moved in the meantime, and graduated from high school there. From 1957 to 1959 he did an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank and a commercial school in Reutlingen, which he completed as a banker with an examination at the Reutlingen Chamber of Commerce . In 1959 Schmid-Schickhardt began studying business administration at the University of Tübingen , which he continued at the University of Saarbrücken from 1960 and graduated with a degree in business administration in November 1964 with the thesis "The Influence of Liquidity on Long-Term Profitability in Industrial Companies".

From April 1, 1965, he was employed as a bank trainee at the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt am Main . At the same time, he completed internal training at the Bundesbank, which qualified him for higher-level banking. He graduated in 1968 as a bank assessor and was then transferred to the Bundesbank's headquarters in Stuttgart . In the same year he married Maja Maier, who accompanied him throughout his life, especially in his later genealogical work. He continued his career at the Bundesbank as Bundesbankrat (1970) and then as Bundesbank Oberrat (1972) at the Bundesbank's headquarters in Stuttgart and Schwäbisch Hall (1974–1978). Since 1978 he was back at the main office in Stuttgart, where he was appointed Bundesbank director in the same year. Since 1983 he was the director of the Bundesbank's main office in Pforzheim . In 1995 he retired and finished his professional career in this way. In between he was seconded at short notice to the Bundesbank headquarters in Karlsruhe and the Landeszentralbank branch in Schwäbisch Gmünd . From the 1980s until his death, he lived in Baden-Baden , where, after retiring, he devoted himself entirely to Schickhardt research.

As a direct descendant of Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder in the 12th or 14th generation, he still carried out Schickhardt research during his professional activity, trying above all to shed light on the genealogy that had been neglected until then . On October 5, 1997, he appeared in a program on Südwestfernsehen from the series “I carry a big name”, which gave him the opportunity to report on Wilhelm Schickard . Since 1999 he has published articles in specialist journals as well as non-fiction books. The latter were self-published in very small, limited and numbered editions. They contain many images, most of which are first-time publications with a demonstrative character. Schmid-Schickhardt pursued several goals in his publications:

• To present biographies of lesser-known but deserving members of the Schickhardt family in order to give new impulses to Schickhardt research, which until then had almost exclusively dealt with Heinrich Schickhardt and Wilhelm Schickard
• to supplement the genealogy of the Schickhardt family
• to point out lesser-known details in Schickhardt's research
• To summarize the results of the latest Schickhardt research.

Horst Schmid-Schickhardt's death notification from his former employer

His genealogical research brought Horst Schmid-Schickhardt into connection with Gerhard Hertel . Shortly after the establishment of the " Kulturstrasse Heinrich Schickhardt " association in 1998, thanks to this acquaintance, he became a member of the association and a member of its board of directors in 1999. The association, which was elevated to the title of “Cultural Route of the Heinrich Schickhardt Council of Europe” in 2004, became an arena for him, where he revealed himself as a convinced European and advocate of Franco-German friendship. He gave lectures and since then his articles have appeared regularly in the association's annual magazine "Un pont - Eine Brücke". In 2004 Schmid-Schickhardt donated a memorial plaque for Stammheim Castle , which commemorates its builder Heinrich Schickhardt and which was ceremoniously unveiled on June 30th. On his initiative, and because of his research on Johann Christian Schickhardt sent SWR2 on 11 October 2007 in the series "Early Music" a prepared by Bettina Winkler mission for the 425th birthday of the composer. On his initiative, the state of Baden-Württemberg honored Heinrich Schickhardt with a stele on his 450th birthday. It was set up where his Stuttgart house stood, which was bombed in 1944 and demolished in 1951, i. H. on the corner of Kanzleistrasse (today Willi-Bleicherstrasse ) and Hospitalstrasse , and was ceremoniously unveiled on February 20, 2008. He also participated intensively in the publication of Heinrich Schickhardt's "inventory" (completed in 2013).

Schmid-Schickhardt died surprisingly of a leukemia diagnosed just a few days earlier in his hometown. There he was taken to the medical clinic. He was buried in the family grave in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart on August 30, 2016.

Fonts

• Important relatives around Heinrich Schickhardt , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 1999.
• Schickhardt family of artists from Siegen - Heinrich Schickhardt valued as "Swabian Leonardo" . In: "Siegerland", 77 (2000), pp. 125-138.
• Johann Christian Schickhardt . Supplement No. 1 on important relatives around Heinrich Schickhardt , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 2002.
• The carver from Herrenberg. Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder from Siegen (1464–1540) or 500 years of the Swabian Schickhardt family 1503/2003 , supplement no. 2 on important relatives around Heinrich Schickhardt , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 2003.
• Schickhardt - Ravensberger - Bisterfeld - Alsted. Relationships between four important Nassau families . In: "Siegerland", December 2003.
• Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder from Siegen - founder of an important Swabian dynasty of artists and scholars . In: “Siegener Contributions. Yearbook for Regional History “9, Siegen 2004, pp. 55–70; Reprinted in: “Un pont - Eine Brücke” 16 (2017), pp. 1–8.
• Philippus Schickhardus Specialis Göppingensis (1562-1635) . In: “Hohenstaufen Helfenstein. Historical yearbook for the Göppingen district ”15 (2005), pp. 57–68.
• The Schickhardt family from Siegen in the 15th to 17th centuries. Attempt of a partial genealogy , supplement No. 3 on important relatives to Heinrich Schickhardt , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 2008.
• Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder from Siegen. The creator of the Herrenberg choir stalls , ed. and supplemented by Marek Wojciechowski, Schöntal: Maja Schmid-Schickhardt 2017.

Article in "Freudenstädter Heimatbl Blätter", a monthly supplement to the Freudenstädter edition of "Schwarzwälder Bote"

• 2001, No. 7: The Schickhardts came from Siegerland , pp. 1–2.
• 2001, No. 12: The family of the master builder Heinrich Schickhardt , pp. 2–3.
• 2002, No. 1: The ancestor of today's Schickhardt family - Luke II. , Pp. 1–2.

Article in the annual magazine "Un pont - Eine Brücke"

• 1 (2001): Heinrich Schickhardt's Stuttgart House , pp. 9–12.
• 4 (2005): Schloss Stammheim , pp. 4–5 and Geneviève Carrez, translator of "Rayß in Italy" , p. 17.
• 5 (2006): Europawoche 2005 , pp. 5-7.
• 6 (2007): Das Seehaus , p. 8 and Der Prinzenbau zu Stuttgart. Today Ministry of Justice Baden-Württemberg , pp. 9-10.
• 7 (2008): Unveiling of a memorial stele for Heinrich Schickhardt in the state capital Stuttgart , pp. 2–3; Seeburger Fischbachstollen , p. 6–8 and children of the master builder , p. 8–11.
• 8 (2009): Heinrich Schickhardt in Strassburg , pp. 7-11.
• 9 (2010): Heinrich Schickhardt in Wildberg / Black Forest , p. 4.
• 11 (2012): Stone Witnesses from Horbourg Castle , pp. 1–5.
• 12 (2013): Heinrich Schickhardt in Hohenlohe , pp. 10–12 and World Heritage Maulbronn Monastery , p. 13.
• 13 (2014): The Schnitzer von Herrenberg: Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder , pp. 3–4.
• 14 (2015): Regional Württemberg builders, assistants and students of Heinrich Schickhardt and their collaboration , pp. 1–4 and laudation to Denise Rietsch , pp. 12–14.
• 16 (2017): Heinrich Schickhardt and der Wein , pp. 9-10.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Denise Rietsch: In memoriam Horst Schmid-Schickhardt ... , p. 24.
2. ↑ Copy of the original document.
3. ↑ Denise Rietsch: Address at the funeral of Mr. Horst Schmid-Schickhardt August 30, 2016 ... , p. 25.

swell

• Denise Rietsch: In memoriam Horst Schmid-Schickhardt (1937–2016) and address at the funeral of Mr. Horst Schmid-Schickhardt August 30, 2016 . Both in: “Un pont - Eine Brücke” 16, 2017, pp. 24–26.
• The most important biographical data are contained in all of Schmid-Schickhardt's independent publications. The carver from Herrenberg. ... , p. 69 also contains a photo.

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