Michael Ehrhardt

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Michael Ehrhardt (* 1966 in Bremervörde ) is a German historian who mainly researches and teaches the regional history of the Elbe-Weser region .

Life

Erhardt studied history, French and pedagogy at the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg . His dissertation, submitted to the University of Hamburg, deals with the history of the Börde Selsingen .

Ehrhardt has been a researcher at the Stade Regional Council since 2000, member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen since 2005 and lecturer in social and economic history at the University of Hamburg's history department since 2006.

Research activity

From 2011 Ehrhardt carried out research on dykes on the Lower Weser on behalf of the Stade Regional Association . In the study published in 2015, he points out that this is no longer a closed cultural landscape, but rather small state communities and the smallest of farmers who formed their own dike associations and assigned to different courts, offices and, in the case of the Lower Weser, even different states and different administrative apparatuses are. In most cases this led to overlapping competencies and uncertainties among the individual authorities, a serious weak point in administration which delayed the implementation of important hydraulic engineering projects and which the farmers knew how to take advantage of. The dyke section being worked on extends from Bremerhaven in the north to Bremen in the south. The aspect of the Weser dyke in the urban environment is of great importance here. The founding of Bremerhaven in 1827 also fundamentally changed the face of the previous rural settlements of Lehe , Geestendorf and Wulsdorf in terms of dyke construction . Port facilities have taken on the function of dikes in the urban settlement. The affiliation of the small Marsch Land Würden to the state of Oldenburg led to a dualism between the state dyke construction administrations, which runs like a red thread through the centuries almost to the present day. In the area of ​​the city of Bremen, the Bremische Deichverband on the right bank of the Weser has been organizing dyke construction on the Weser and Wümme for over 150 years . Even before it was founded, the republican constitution in the city-state seems to have brought about a more effective management of the levee system than in other marshland regions.

Awards ceremonies

Publications (a selection)

  • “A guldten bandt of the country.” On the history of the dikes in the old country . Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden: Stade 2003, ISBN 3-931879-11-9 .
  • “Always towards the great water.” On the history of the dykes in Wursten . Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden: Stade 2007, ISBN 978-3-931879-35-8 .
  • together with Hans-Hinrich Kahrs: Alfstedt and Bredemehe. History and local history . Alfstedt municipality, regional association. of the former duchies of Bremen and Verden: Altstadt and Stade 2012.
  • “To protect the country's banks.” On the history of the dikes on the Lower Weser. Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden: Stade 2015, ISBN 978-3-931879-59-4 .
  • “When the Gotzen tenst dorch gades wort were admitted.” The Reformation on the Stader Geest . In: Hans-Eckhard Dannenberg, Hans Otte (Ed.): The Reformation in the Elbe-Weser area, requirements, course, changes. Regional Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden: Stade 2017, pp. 209–248.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Börde Selsingen: Rule and life in a rural district on the Stader Geest in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period . Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 1999, ISBN 978-3-931879-04-4 , p. 241-260 .
  2. ↑ Landscape Association of the former Duchies of Bremen and Verden in Stade (Ldschsv. Stade) eV: "Protecting the shore of the land" on the history of the dikes on the Lower Weser . Landscape verb the husband Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 2015, ISBN 978-3-931879-59-4 .
  3. ↑ Messages from the Marschenrat to promote research in the coastal area of ​​the North Sea. (PDF) In: Issue 48 / 2011. Marschenrat for the promotion of research in the coastal area of ​​the North Sea e. V., p. 28 , accessed on January 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Walter Keweloh: Award ceremony in the Museum Windkraft 10 in Cuxhaven. Hermann Allmers Prize 2019 for eight-volume dike history of the Elbe-Weser triangle . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 831 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven March 2019, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.3 MB ; accessed on June 15, 2019]).
  5. ^ Reviews, among others, by Johannes Ey ( Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 2005, pp. 243–247) and Gerhard Köbler ( magazine of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History : German Department 122, 2005, pp. 620 f.).
  6. ↑ Reviewed by Gerhard Köhler (magazine of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History: Germanistische Department 126 (2009), pp. 627 f.).
personal data
SURNAME Ehrhardt, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremervörde