Michael Knieriem

Michael Knieriem welcomed Erich Honecker to the historical center in September 1987 .

Michael Knieriem (born May 24, 1943 in Lahr / Black Forest ) is a German historian and author and was the director of the Museum Historisches Zentrum in Wuppertal .

The author of several historical textbooks on the Wuppertal region, where he specialized in the life and work of Friedrich Engels , was director of the historical center for more than two decades until he retired in spring 2008. His successor was Eberhard Illner .

Knieriem was in 2006 by the Cultural Affairs Marlis Drevermann been mandated role Eduard von der Heydts in the era of National Socialism to clarify what the future role and the appointment of Eduard von der Heydt Cultural Award should influence. As a result, the commission of experts could not find any confirmation of Eduard von der Heydt as a National Socialist , but the culture award was renamed the “ Von der Heydt Culture Prize ”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Eberhard Illner will be the new head of the Historical Center ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the city of Wuppertal from August 4, 2008. 
2. ↑ Eduard von der Heydt: For lack of evidence . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from May 4, 2007.

Works

• Military persons in Protestant church registers of the Lower Rhine before 1800. Part 1: Today's church district of Kleve. 1974.
• An unknown application for emigration by Friedrich Engels to England In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein. 87. Vol., Jg. 1974/76, pp. 105-115.
• Friedrich Engels. Cola di Rienzi . An unknown dramatic draft. Editing and imported Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1974, ISBN 3-87294-070-8 .
• Friedrich Engels as the Bremen correspondent of the Stuttgart “Morgenblatts für educated readers” and the Augsburger “Allgemeine Zeitung”. Karl-Marx-Haus, Trier 1975 ( writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus , 15).
• The travels of the young Friedrich Engels. New dates for his biography with a revised timetable . Hammer, Wuppertal 1975.
• Profit and care. Early capitalism in the Bergisches Land. In: Merian: Bergisches Land. 28th year, Hamburg 1975, issue 8S, p. 35 ff.
• Two unknown files on the Elberfeld assemblies in 1845. A contribution to the history of early Rhenish socialism . In: Mitteilungen des Stadtarchiv Wuppertal , 1 year, issue 1, April 1976, pp. 12-21.
• Two unknown files on Friedrich Engels. In: Romerike Berge. Journal for home care in the Bergisches Land. Vol. 26, 1976, pp. 125-127.
• Wuppertal back then. Seidelmeier, Wuppertal 1977, ISBN 3-8130-0000-1 .
• The development of the Caspar Engels Sons company. At the same time a contribution to the social environment of the young angel. 1978, ISBN 3-8130-0012-5 . ( News from the Engels House , 1).
• Forest organization and staff on the left Lower Rhine. A contribution to the Prussian civil service policy. In: Communications of the West German Society for Family Studies. 66th Jg., 1978, Vol. 28, Issue 45, pp. 197-203 and 67th Jg., 1979, Vol. 29, Issue 1, pp. 15-21.
• Friedrich Engels 'trip to Münster in spring 1840. In: International scientific correspondence on the history of the workers' movement (IWK). Vol. 14, 1978, pp. 486-490.
• Helmut Elsner, Michael Knieriem, Brigitte Traude (eds.): Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Your position in the revolution of 1848/49. H. Freistühler Verlag, Schwerte / Ruhr 1979.
• Friedrich Engels' classmates at the Barmer city school and their military conditions. In: News from the Engels House . 3, Wuppertal 1980, pp. 53-78.
• The Ermen brothers in Manchester. Biographical notes on Friedrich Engels' business partners. In: Yearbook of the IMSF 3. Frankfurt am Main 1980, pp. 312-320. Digitized .
• Known and unknown personal historical data on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, during the Brussels period 1845–1848. In: Procotoll of the International Colloquium of the Marx-Engels-Foundation eV on November 28, 1980 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld . Voerkel & Co, Wuppertal, 1981, pp. 72-107.
• Wuppertal in old postcards. Flechsig, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-88189-063-7 .
• Urban renewal in Wuppertal. - 1st, Arrenberg. Wuppertal 1981.
• Alfred Hrdlicka's strong left. The dispute over the Wuppertal angel monument. Gallery & Ed. W 1 Hungerland, Wuppertal 1981.
• From the diaries of Johann Wilhelm Jakob Blank - a childhood friend of Friedrich Engels. In: Yearbook of the IMSF 4. Frankfurt am Main 1981, pp. 383–389 digitized .
• Barmen. In: Werner Krötz: The industrial city of Wuppertal. Cologne 1982, pp. 29-36.
• Who mediated Engels' collaboration on the “Franco-German Yearbooks”? A necessary addition. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research 14 . Berlin 1983, pp. 138-140 digitized .
• Engels as a political refugee in Switzerland in the summer of 1849. In: Yearbook of the IMSF 6. Frankfurt am Main 1983, pp. 367–375 Digitized .
• The Barmer “Revolutionary General” Friedrich Wilhelm Hühnerbein 1816–1893. A correction. In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein. Vol. 90, 1982/83, 1983, pp. 153-161.
• The ribbon and trimmings weaving of the Wuppertal. In: "My field is the world". Sample books and catalogs 1784–1914. An exhibition by the Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Dortmund foundation in cooperation with the Westphalian Museum Office Münster, Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe. Dortmund 1984, pp. 133-138.
• Cromford - the eve of industrialization? In: The power of the machine - 200 years of Cromford - Ratingen. An exhibition on the early days of the factory. Ratingen 1984, pp. 63-81.
• From the diaries of the manufacturer Wilhelm Karl Ehrenfest Jung (1800–1867) in Wuppertal-Hammerstein from the years 1844–1846 . Wuppertal 1984.
• Marx and Engels as godparents in 1851. In: Yearbook of the IMSF 8. Frankfurt am Main 1985, pp. 270-274 digitized .
• About Friedrich Engels. Private, public and official matters, statements and testimonies from contemporaries, 1846–1849, with an addendum 1840–1844. Engels-Haus, Wuppertal 1986 ( news from the Engels-Haus , 2).
• The “Ermen & Engels” company in Manchester and Engelskirchen in the 19th century. In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch. 10, Berlin 1986, pp. 211-234.
• The company archive of Ermen and Engels in Engelskirchen in the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Yearbook of the IMSF 12. Frankfurt am Main 1987, pp. 322–328 digitized .
• Profit under God's blessing. A contribution to the company history and business situation of Friedrich Engels. Engels-Haus, Wuppertal 1987 ( News from the Engels-Haus , 5).
• Unknown autograph by Friedrich Engels (1853). In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. 29th year, Berlin 1987, No. 2, pp. 200-203.
• "I am and a whole new world has been moved!" Two unknown letters from father and son Friedrich Engels to Barmen from the year 1838. In: Contributions to the history of the workers' movement. 29th year, Berlin 1987, No. 6, pp. 766-771.
• Engelskirchen: Ermen and Engels. In: Bauwelt. Volume 87, No. 22, June 5, 1987, p. 771.
• Engels' grandpa about the grandson. "Your Friedrich ... will one day become a great scholar". In: Marxist sheets . Frankfurt am Main 1985, No. 5, pp. 64-68.
• "I really like that Friedrich speaks of his father". Statements about Friedrich Engels from 40 previously unknown family letters from the years 1820 to 1858. In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch. 12, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 283-328.
• The origin of Friedrich Engels. Letters from relatives 1791–1847. Karl-Marx-Haus, Trier 1991, ISBN 3-926132-12-4 . (with Margret Dietzen) ( writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus , 42).
• Spiritual letters to Johann Caspar Engels and his wife Louise, b. Noot, 1798-1821. At the same time a contribution to Collenbuschianism in Wuppertal , Wuppertal 1992 ( Nachrichten aus dem Engels-Haus , 9).
• "We want to make a name for the Wupperthale ..." A documentation on the genesis of the Elberfeld literary circle 1838–1844 , Wuppertal 1994 ( News from the Engels House , 10).
• The Society of the Childhood Comrades of Jesus at Hayn Castle. From the estate of von Fleischbein and correspondence from de Marsay, Prueschenk von Lindenhofen and Tersteegen 1734 to 1742. A contribution to the history of radical pietism in the Siegener and Wittgensteiner Land , 2002, ISBN 3-932324-94-3 (with Johannes Burkardt).
• Johann Caspar Engels II (1753-1821) . In: Wolfhard Weber (ed.): Bergisch-Märkische entrepreneurs of early industrialization . (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien , Vol. 18), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, pp. 66–84.
• The presbyterial protocols of the Evangelical Reformed Congregation Sonsbeck from 1717 to 1770. Habelt, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-7749-3555-6 .
• Efforts to reach unification in German Freemasonry. In: 50 Years of the United Grand Lodges of Germany Brotherhood of Freemasons. Berlin 2009, pp. 19–34.

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Knieriem in the catalog of the German National Library