Max Heuwieser

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Max Heuwieser (born September 21, 1878 in Tann ; † May 10, 1944 in Passau ) was a Passau homeland or history researcher. The Passauer Neue Presse describes him as “the most important among the spiritual historians of the Diocese of Passau ”. The priest and university professor played a key role in founding the association and the Institute for East Bavarian Homeland Research in 1926 .

Life

Youth and Studies

The son of a simple master builder, Max Heuwieser was born on September 21, 1878 in Tann ( parish church district ), where he also spent most of his childhood. He attended grammar school in Burghausen until 1899, then went to Passau to begin his philosophical and theological studies that same year. During this time he was nicknamed "Bookworm" by his fellow students. In 1903 he was ordained a priest in Passau and then devoted himself to pastoral activities for a few years. In 1907 he went to the University of Munich to continue his studies. One of his teachers and mentors there was the great Bavarian historian Prof. Sigmund von Riezler († 1927). Under his guidance, Heuwieser received his doctorate in 1909 with his work on "The development of the city of Passau under urban law" (published in the "Negotiations of the Historical Association of Lower Bavaria", vol. 46, Landshut 1910), now also as a Dr. phil. and then moved back to Passau.

Lecturer activity

There he was appointed cathedral vicar three years later, archivist of the ordinariate and lecturer in world history at the Philosophical-Theological College. He carried out these functions until 1920, when he was appointed professor for world history and historical auxiliary sciences at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg on October 1st . In the winter semester of 1925, he finally followed the call to the chair for church history and patrology back at the Passau University, to which he belonged from now on until his death and from 1933 even was rector. In November 1933 he was one of the signatories of the professors' commitment at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state .

Heuwieser as a local researcher

Since 1923, under the direction of Heuwieser, the " Ostbairische Grenzmarken " have also been published monthly , which until their temporary end in 1930 develop into " a real treasure trove for the local history and art history of the Passau-Lower Bavarian region ". To further intensify research and work on local history, Heuwieser founded the Institute for East Bavarian Local History Research in 1926 together with Lord Mayor Sittler and the art historian Guby , and he was appointed as the first director. From 1927 Heuwieser was also a member of the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 1933 founded the so-called "Ostmark Museum" on the Veste Oberhaus in Passau. Until 1936 he managed this museum himself, consisting of the combined holdings of the Diocesan Museum, the City Museum and the collections of the Natural Science Association. In the last two years of the war, 1944 and 1945, however, it was almost completely dissolved. However, today's Oberhausmuseum emerged from the Ostmark Museum.

Death and inheritance

Always respected and popular by both his students and colleagues, Professor Dr. Max Heuwieser dies on May 10, 1944 at the age of only 65; a heart condition puts an abrupt end to his life. He bequeaths to posterity numerous and in part irreplaceable writings, including - apart from his doctoral thesis - his three most important works: " Regensburg in the Early Middle Ages" (1925), "History of the Diocese of Passau , Volume 1" (1939) and "Passau and the Nibelungenlied " (1943). According to his own wishes, Heuwieser is buried in his home town of Tann .

literature

• Franz Mader : Tausend Passauer - Biographical Lexicon on Passau's city history . 1st edition. Neue-Presse-Verlags-GmbH, Passau 1995, ISBN 3-924484-98-8 (co-editor: Stadtarchiv Passau).

Web links

• Publications by Max Heuwieser in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer 16048 The time of National Socialism ). Updated edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 252.
2. ↑ The historian M. Heuwieser died 25 years ago. In: Passauer Neue Presse from May 9, 1969.