Johannes Willers

Johannes Karl Wilhelm Willers (* 1945 in Bamberg ) is a German weapons historian and Germanist .

John Willers studied at the University of Erlangen Frankish country's history , art history and German and was there in 1973 with a dissertation on the Nuremberg handguns medieval doctorate . In 1973 he became an employee of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . His main interests are Asian and African weapons customers. He became known to a larger audience as an expert in the television program Kunst und Krempel .

Fonts (selection)

• The Nuremberg handgun until the middle of the 16th century. Development, production, sales based on archival sources. City archive, Nuremberg 1973 (= dissertation).
• Historical weapons and hunting antiquities in: Bernward Deneke / Rainer Kahsnitz (ed.): Das Germanisches Nationalmuseum 1852–1977. Contributions to its history. Munich 1978, pp. 833-859.
• Small arms - a "dangerous" chance discovery makes history: from the Chinese powder rocket to the multi-shot rifle , in: Rudolf Pörtner (Ed.): The treasure house of German history. The Germanic National Museum Nuremberg. Our cultural heritage in pictures and examples. Munich 1982, pp. 493-520.
• Wrong celebration for Peter Henlein . In: Nuremberg - Merian. The monthly magazine of cities and landscapes. Volume 34, 1981, p. 64 f.
• The Nuremberg clockmaker Peter Henlein (approx. 1485–1542). In: Franconian pictures of life. New series of CVs from Franconia. Volume 11, 1984, pp. 80-90.
• as publisher: Focus Behaim Globus. Exhibition catalog Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 2 volumes. Nuremberg 1992.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Experts - Militaria: Dr. Johannes Willers In: Bayerischer Rundfunk , accessed on May 14, 2019
2. ↑ in: Gabriele Löwe-Hampp (Hrsg.): Discovering art and clutter family treasures ; with the experts from the TV series / Bayerischer Rundfunk, 1997, ISBN 3-422-06203-3 , p. 41.