Horst Schweimler (local history researcher)

Horst Schweimler (born January 9, 1927 in Hanover ; † November 5, 2006 ) was a German publisher and local researcher .

Life

Street sign Horst-Schweimler-Weg with a separate legend board at the intersection with Benedessenweg

From 1955 Horst Schweimler published the regionally oriented "for entrepreneurs and shopping centers" advertising paper Ricklinger Monthly Post , which also acted as a mouthpiece for the local citizens. As of April 1968, the published by Schweimler appeared district newspaper lime leaf . The local researcher was also one of the founding members of the Ricklinger Association and co-founder of the Ricklingen Interest Group .

He was married to Dagmar Schweimler.

Honors

In 2007, at the suggestion of the Ricklingen City District Council , the council meeting of the Lower Saxony state capital unanimously decided to name part of the Düsternstraße starting at Deichtor and leading to the intersection at Am Beekestrand as Horst-Schweimler-Weg , in order to make Schweimler "in the immediate vicinity of his places of activity" to honor. The reason stated that he had "from 1950 onwards in the [Hanoverian] districts of Ricklingen and Oberricklingen as well as in the entire city district strengthened public awareness of the living areas there". Due to the renaming, the postal address of the sports field of the German Rugby Club Hanover changed .

In 2017 , the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung called Schweimler an " original " that has remained unforgotten in the district even years after his death, as it was included in the Ricklingen revue "What was, is not over!" By Hans Zimmer .

Fonts (selection)

• Ricklingen. One village - two districts in Hanover. Its history - its people. Fackelträger, Hannover 1986, ISBN 978-3-7716-1466-9 and ISBN 3-7716-1466-X ; Table of contents .

Web links

Commons : Horst-Schweimler-Weg (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ricklinger chronicler honored by naming the street. In: Fidele-Doerp.de , December 17, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} o.V. : Name in the Ricklingen district / suggestion according to Section 55c (5) NGO of the Ricklingen District Council ... , printed decision number 1894/2007 of July 26, 2007 on the e-government.hannover-stadt.de page
2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1968 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 261; limited preview in Google Book search
3. ↑ Ricklinger chronicler honored by naming the street. In: Fidele-Doerp.de , December 17, 2007.
4. ↑ District center and ARV celebrate anniversary. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , June 12, 2017.
5. ↑ Cited as literature by Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): History of the City of Hanover. Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Schlueter, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 830 ; Klaus Mlynek: Ricklingen. In: ders., Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present. Schlueter, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 522 f. See the review by Manfred Hamann in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte . Volume 62, 1990, p. 467 (PDF). ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.