Kurt Hoppstädter

Kurt Friedrich Hoppstädter (born December 6, 1905 in Wiebelskirchen , † May 14, 1970 in Fürth in the Ostertal ) was a German local researcher and heraldist .

Hoppstädter was born as the son of the locomotive driver Friedrich Hoppstädter and Wilhelmine Volz. After elementary school he attended the preparatory institute in Ottweiler until 1924 and in 1925 joined the railroad of what was then Saarland as a civilian supernumerar . After working for several years in various departments, he passed the first-class specialist examination in 1929. From 1929 to 1931 he was in charge of the customs office at the Merzig freight station , in order to then take over the freight tariff control of the Saarbrücken administrative district . In 1969 he retired with the rank of Federal Railway Chief Official.

In addition to his professional activity, from 1932 on he published numerous works on topics relating to the history of the country, settlement and transport. He also made a large number of contributions to heraldic research in Saarland and designed the coats of arms for eighty Saarland districts, offices and communities.

From 1941 to 1960 he was a member of the Herold and from 1955 to 1970 managing director of the historical association for the Saar area . He was also a member of the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research , the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland and the International Institute for Castle Research .

Fonts

• The Jew in the History of the Saarland , 1943
• The coat of arms of the Saarland , 1953, 1958.
• Wiebelskirchen homeland book , 1955
• Waldeck Castle and Palace , 1957
• Under the Nassau Lion - the military in the County of Nassau-Saarbrücken , 1957
• Historical regional studies of the Saarland , Volume I (with Hans-Walter Herrmann ), 1960
• The creation of the Saarland railways , 1961
• Home register of Fürth , 1963
• The creation of the railways in the Hunsrück , 1963
• The settlement names of the districts of Ottweiler and St. Wendel , 1970, posthumously
• City of Bexbach , 1971, posthumously
• Historical regional studies of the Saarland , Volume II (with Hans-Walter Herrmann), 1977, posthumously

see also: Category: Coat of arms of Kurt Hoppstädter

literature

• Bernhard Krajewski: Obituary Kurt Hoppstädter . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region , Jg. 17/18, Saarbrücken 1970, pp. 1–4.
• Jürgen Arndt: Biographical lexicon of the heraldists as well as the sphragistics, vexillologists and insignologists. Published by Herold, Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Related Sciences. Bauer and Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch 1992, ISBN 3-87947-109-6 ( J. Siebmacher's large book of arms, vol. H).

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Hoppstädter in the catalog of the German National Library