Kurt Hermann Frickel

Kurt Hermann Frickel (born March 22, 1939 ; † March 2, 2011 in Niederwerrn ) was a German teacher, genealogist and Bach researcher.

Career

Frickel was a specialist teacher at the Dr. Georg Schäfer School in Schweinfurt. In 1985, in the year of his 300th birthday, he began genealogical research on the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach . After retiring in 1994, he devoted almost all of his free time to researching his life and family . He published his work in several books and lectures. Together with his wife, he made a special contribution to the family's ancestral home in Wechmar . He did not live to see the publication of his life's work, a double-volume Bach family lexicon , planned for 2011 .

Publications

• The mystical Bach number 14 . LHS Germany, Nordheim vd Rhön, 2004, ISBN 3-926523-46-8
• The true ancestral constellation of the Bach family of musicians . [Hartmann], Nordheim vd Rhön, 2002, ISBN 3-926523-43-3
• Genealogy of the Bach family of musicians . Self-published, Niederwerrn, 1994, ISBN 3-926523-37-9

Honors

• 2010: Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Hermann Frickel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Niederwerrn: In the footsteps of Bach . In: Main-Post , March 6, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Niederwerrn: In the footsteps of Bach. In: Main-Post. March 6, 2011, accessed April 2, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Heritage conference on Bach care, genealogy and music. (No longer available online.) Bach headquarters in Wechmar, archived from the original on November 21, 2013 ; Retrieved April 2, 2011 . 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.  
3. ↑ Holger Laschka: Federal Medal of Merit for Niederwerrner Bach researcher Kurt Frickel. Swex.de, November 11, 2010, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; Retrieved April 2, 2011 .