Maria Zelzer

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Maria Zelzer (born October 10, 1921 in Pilsen , Czechoslovakia ; died August 4, 1999 in Bad Orb ) was a Czech-German historian and archivist.

Life

Maria Zelzer was a daughter of the railway official Wilhelm Zelzer and Maria, née Warta, her grandfather Josef Zelzer worked in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia as a senior teacher in Auherzen and Chrancowitz . She attended the German elementary school and the secondary school in Pilsen. In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , which had been occupied by the German Reich since March 1939 , she studied history and political science, German and Slavic studies at the German Charles University in Prague. In 1944 she passed the teaching examination to become a high school teacher and received her doctorate with a dissertation on Montesquieu's ideal of the state . In the school year 1943/44 she worked as an assistant teacher at a German boys' high school in Pilsen.

Zelzer and her parents were expelled from Czechoslovakia as Germans in 1946. She found a job as a city archivist in Donauwörth . There she published a biographical study on the theologian and social critic Sebastian Franck and a contribution to the history of the town of Göggingen for the Augsburg city archive . In 1959 she published the first volume of a city history of Donauwörth until 1618. During the preparatory work for a second volume, which extends into the present, she encountered resistance from the former NSDAP district propaganda leader and current mayor, Andreas Mayr (1898–1975). She moved to Stuttgart with her mother, who she looked after in the following years, and from 1961 worked there as an archivist at the Stuttgart City Archives .

Zelzer was commissioned with a publication on the history of the Stuttgart Jews, which appeared in 1964, but found no response in the commune, in whose political elite the own Nazi past was suppressed. When her work on the work on Stuttgart, which was later published in 1983, also met resistance, Zelzer gave up her work at the Stuttgart City Archives.

Zelzer moved to Esslingen and was active in the peace movement there. She fell ill, lived in different places, and other manuscripts were lost during the moves. In the end she lived in a guesthouse in Bad Orb .

Fonts

  • Montesquieu's ideal of the state . Prague, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation, 1944
  • Sebastian Franck . In: Life pictures from Bavarian Swabia, edited by Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz , Volume Vl, Munich, 1958
  • History of the city of Donauwörth. Vol. 1. From the beginning to 1618 . City of Donauwörth, 1959
  • Path and fate of the Stuttgart Jews. A memorial book . Stuttgart: Klett, 1964
  • Stuttgart under the swastika. Chronicle 1933–1945 . Stuttgart: Alektor, 1984 ISBN 978-3-88425-031-0

literature

  • Hartmut Zelzer with Rolf Hofmann, Ottmar Seuffert: Maria Zelzer - Path and Fate of an Almost Forgotten Historian , at: Alemannia Judaica

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniela Graf: Destruction of Julius Prochownik , in: Augsburger Allgemeine, November 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Zelzer, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Pilsen
DATE OF DEATH August 4, 1999
Place of death Bad Orb