Maria Anna Zumholz

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Maria Anna Zumholz (* 1950 in Lastrup ) is a German historian. She is the deputy head of the office for Catholicism and resistance research at the University of Vechta in Füchtel .

Zumholz worked from 1991 to 1996 as a research assistant at the Vechta University of Applied Sciences and did her doctorate as a student of Joachim Kuropka with an investigation into the apparitions of Mary in Heede (Emsland) during the Nazi era . From 2005 to 2015 she was involved in the Heimatbund for the Oldenburger Münsterland as honorary chairman of the history committee, whose work she shaped together with her co-chairman Michael Hirschfeld , who has been in office since 2009 . During this time she established new formats for conveying and researching regional history , including evening lectures by the history committee at the University of Vechta and academy evenings in Stapelfeld , both in cooperation with the Kuropka-run office for Catholicism and resistance research at the University of Vechta, for which she has been working since 1990s. In 2016 she was awarded the Golden Flower of the Heimatbund. From 2015, she accompanied an extensive research project on the history of women's education in the Oldenburger Land and works as a private lecturer at the university.

As part of her habilitation process at the University of Vechta, she gave her inaugural lecture on death on October 18, 2017 at the Charité. Spotlights on the (violent?) End of life of the Oldenburg Gauleiter Carl Röver (1889–1942) .

Individual evidence

  1. Willi Baumann, Michael Hirschfeld (ed.): Christenkreuz or Hakenkreuz. On the relationship between the Catholic Church and National Socialism in the State of Oldenburg (= sources and contributions to the history of the Oldenburg State , vol. 4). Plaggenborg, Vechta 1999, p. 395.
  2. a b Employee at the Office for Research on Catholicism and Resistance at the University of Vechta , accessed on March 7, 2020.
  3. a b Farewell to Dr. Maria Anna Zumholz. Communication from the Heimatbund for the Oldenburger Münsterland, April 15, 2015, accessed on March 7, 2020.
  4. Lothar Groppe : Not human praise, not human fear. In: Theologisches , Vol. 26 (1996), No. 6 (PDF; 5.6 MB), Sp. 240–248 (here: 244).
  5. Reiner Kramer: Heimatbund honors special commitment. In: NWZ , March 14, 2016, accessed on March 7, 2020.
  6. Inaugural lecture in the habilitation process by Dr. Maria Anna Zumholz. Communication from the University of Vechta, October 27, 2017, accessed on March 7, 2020.