Kai Lehmann

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Kai Lehmann (2016)

Kai Lehmann (born September 28, 1971 in Schmalkalden ) is a German historian and museum director. He is the director of the museums in the cultural association of the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen . He heads the Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg in Schmalkalden. He is also responsible for the “Neue Hütte” technical museum, the “Finstertal” visitor mine in the Asbach district of Schmalkalde and the metalworking museum in Steinbach-Hallenberg . Lehmann specializes in church registers and the everyday history of the common people from the 16th to the 18th century.

Life

From 1994 to 1998 Lehmann studied Medieval and Modern History, Social Sciences and Christian Social Ethics at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg . His master's thesis dealt with the "origin and rise of the Arnulfinger-Pippinids with special consideration of the so-called coup d'état of the Grimoald" and was submitted to Klaus Arnold . From 2000 to 2003 Lehmann was a research assistant at the Military History Research Office in Potsdam . He received his doctorate in 2003 from the Helmut Schmidt University with a dissertation on "The plundering of the prince-duchy of Henneberg in 1554" (magna cum laude). Lehmann has been the museum director in Schmalkalden since 2003. From the summer semester 2016 he has a teaching position at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . He is a member of the Historical Commission for Thuringia . Kai Lehmann is married and has three daughters.

Exhibitions

(in the Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg)

  • 2007–2012 "Ritter Iwein - the virtual resurrection of the oldest secular wall paintings north of the Alps"
  • 2011–2013 “Luther and the Witches. Witch hunt in the area south of the Thuringian Forest "
  • 2013–2015: "Living and Dying in the Thirty Years War"
  • 2015-2016: "Fatal Lust - Landgrave Philipp of Hesse and his double marriage"
  • 2017: Permanent exhibition: "The Schmalkaldic League - the political arm of the Reformation"
  • 2017: Special exhibition: "The Luther instrument - the reformer becomes a saint"
  • From 2018: "German Documentation Center for Witch Hunting"

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Schmalkaldische Bund , published by the cultural association for the district of Schmalkalden Meinigen, Untermaßfeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-9455-3109-9 .
  • The introduction of the Reformation in South Thuringia (Contributions to the Reformation History in Thuringia, Volume 8), Jena 2016.
  • Fatal Lust - Landgrave Philipp of Hesse and his double marriage , published by the cultural association of the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen, 258 p., Untermaßfeld 2016.
  • Living and dying in the Thirty Years War, two authentic family fates from the 17th century , published by the Zweckverband Kultur des Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen, 252 pages, Untermaßfeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-9815-3074-2 .
  • Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries , published by the Zweckverband Kultur des Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen, 456 pages, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 .
  • with Jürgen Römer u. a .: Places of the Reformation - Schmalkalden , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig 2013.
  • Living and dying before, during and after the Thirty Years War in the community of Fambach (1559–1703) , A cultural history based on the oldest church book of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, 530 p., Floh-Seligenthal 2008, ISBN 3-9810028-5 -7 .
  • The looting of the princes of Henneberg in 1554 (special publications by the Hennebergisch-Franconian History Association No. 20), 499 pages, Hildburghausen 2005, ISBN 3-86180-161-2 .
  • with Hans-Erich Volkmann u. a .: The Bundestag Committee on Defense and its forerunners , Volume 1: The Committee to advise on the EVG contract. July to December 1952, 1046 pages, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-7700-1700-3

Articles (selection)

  • Witch madness and witch persecution as a result of the Reformation , in: Werner Greiling u. a. (Ed.): Negative Implications of the Reformation? Social transformation processes 1470-1620 (sources and research on Thuringia in the age of the Reformation, volume 4), Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2015, pp. 255–282.
  • Witch persecution in the Protestant areas of southern Thuringia, The case of Lena Güntzlin from Benshausen , in: Journal for Thuringian History , Volume 68, Neustadt ad Aisch 2014, pp. 49-86.
  • Witch persecution in the Protestant areas of what is now southern Thuringia , in: Ulrike Siebenhaar (Hrsg.): Witches trials and witch persecution in the Bamberg monastery, a preliminary balance sheet , Bamberg 2013, pp. 140–172.
  • Die young or grow old? The age of death of the rural and urban population in today's southwest Thuringia from the middle of the 17th century to the middle of the 18th century , in: Yearbook of the Hennebergisch-Franconian History Association, Volume 27, Veßra Monastery , Meiningen, Münnerstadt 2012, pp. 95–112 .
  • Project 1719 - Life expectancy in the 17th and 18th centuries in the Schmalkalden rule , in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Volume 116, Kassel 2011, pp. 137–162.
  • The Schmalkalder Streets in 1755 from a commercial and social perspective , in: Schmalkaldische Geschichtsblätter, Volume 2, Schmalkalden 2012, pp. 20–48.
  • When was the Wartburg built? , in: Schmalkalder Geschichtsblätter, Heft 15/16, Schmalkalden 2009, pp. 131–176.
  • Spirit shepherd does not always have to be right - a contribution to 500 years of Schmalkalder town church St. Georg , in: ibid., Pp. 55–70.
  • Schmalkalden or Meiningen - where did Elisabeth of Thuringia say goodbye to her husband , in: Nova Historia Schmalcaldica, Volume 4, Schmalkalden 2007, pp. 126–141.
  • The population development of the city of Schmalkalden in the 16th century , in: Nova Historia Schmalcaldica, Volume 2, Schmalkalden 2005, pp. 3–32.

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personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmalkalden