Michael Kroner

Michael Kroner (born December 22, 1934 in Viscri ( German:  Deutsch-Weißkirch ), Kingdom of Romania ) is a German historian .

Life

After graduating from the Pedagogical Middle School (teacher training institute) in Sighișoara in 1954, Michael Kroner studied history at the Babeș-Bolyai-Universitä in Cluj until 1958 . In 1972 he received his doctorate with the dissertation “Stephan Ludwig Roth. A life for progress and international understanding ”at the University of Bucharest for Dr. phil.

Between 1958 and 1968 Kroner worked as a history teacher and director of the German department of the Lyceum in Bistrița . In Brașov he worked from 1968 to 1978 as an editor for history, folklore and local history for the weekly magazine Karpatenrundschau . From 1978 until his departure to West Germany in 1979, he worked as a museologist at the Brașov District Museum.

From 1980 to 1982 he worked as a research assistant at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg and from 1983 to 1995 as a research officer and full-time archive administrator in the Fürth district . In the mid-1980s, Kroner was elected deputy chairman of the Nuremberg district group of the Association of Transylvanian Saxons . In 1995 Kroner retired and has been working as a volunteer archive manager in Fürth ever since.

Michael Kroner married the grammar school teacher Edith Rösler in Bistrița in 1969. The connection has two sons, Uwe and Volker.

Publications (selection)

Kroner published around 1,800 journalistic articles and reviews, more than 100 scientific articles, around 30 books and just as many brochures, mainly on topics such as the history of the Transylvanian Saxons and Romania, nationality problems in Southeastern Europe, the relationships of the Transylvanian Saxons to their mother country Germany and the history of Central Franconia.

• Stephan Ludwig Roth. A life for progress and international understanding. Doctoral thesis, Cluj 1974 in Romanian and 1977 in German.
• Stephan Ludwig Roth. On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Stephan Ludwig Roth. 1996.
• With Rosemarie Ludwig: Weißkirch. A Transylvanian community on the Große Kokel. 1997.
• The Hohenzollern as kings of Romania: Life pictures of four monarchs 1866-2004. 2004.
• Dracula: Truth, Myth, and the Vampire Business. 2005.
• History of the Transylvanian Saxons. 2 volumes, Nuremberg 2007 and 2008.
• History of the North Transylvanian Saxons. Nuremberg 2009.
• Motherland and fatherland as understood by the Transylvanian Saxons - centuries-old connections of a foreign German minority with the German linguistic and cultural area. Nuremberg 2013.

Awards

• Transylvanian-Saxon Culture Prize, Association of Transylvanian Saxons, Dinkelsbühl June 13, 2006
• Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Fürth December 13, 2010

Web links

• Hannes Schuster: Dr. Michael Kroner. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung of December 21, 2004
• Hannes Schuster: Michael Kroner: Workers on an identity-creating history image. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung of December 21, 2004
• Horst Göbbel: Preserver and promoter of our identity: Dr. Michael Kroner turns 80. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung from December 22, 2014