Michael Mott

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Michael Mott at the presentation of his third volume Fulda then and now in the former princely residence of Fulda (2003)

Michael Mott (born August 12, 1943 in Fulda ) is a German homeland researcher .

Life

Mott became a half-orphan at the age of one after his father fell in Ukraine . In 1951 his mother remarried and moved with him from Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe) to the then still more rural Fulda district of Neuenberg. He attended secondary school, where his interest in local history was aroused. Then he learned the job of telecommunications technician in Kassel , in which he made many electrotechnical inventions. As a part-time teacher, he taught at the training center of the Deutsche Bundespost in Heusenstamm and was also active in the disaster control of the Deutsche Bundespost . Because of his interest in local history, he has been researching in the Fulda city archive since 1977. To date, he has published the knowledge he gained there in over 1,000 articles. A large part is published in the supplement Buchenblätter of the Fuldaer Zeitung . With its practical work as a researcher he found in 1984 at Uffhausen a flat fire grave from the Middle Hallstatt period , which was notgeborgen. A year earlier, the discovery of a barrow he had discovered near Zillbach ( Büchenberg ) was reported.

He is u. a. Long-standing member of the Fulda Monument Advisory Board, since 1998 as deputy chairman. His activities also include lectures, readings, exhibitions and excursions . Together with his wife Hella, Mott is also the organizer of the annual memorial event for the victims of the bombing raids on Fulda in the Second World War .

Publications (selection)

  • 1175 years Uttrichshausen , municipality of Kalbach / Rhön: Municipality of Kalbach, printing works Nikolaus Bad Brückenau , 1986
  • Monuments in the district of Fulda and in the old bishopric  : Rhön-Verlag Hohmann Hünfeld , Rindt-Druck Fulda, 1996, ISBN 3-931796-13-2
  • Chronicle 100 years of men's choir 1899 "Gemütlichkeit" eV Fulda- Horas - "In joy and sorrow - ready for a song": Druck-Center Hilders-Simmershausen, 1999
  • Doors and gates in the city and district of Fulda, Sparkasse Fulda  : cre art Fulda, April 2000
  • Fulda then and now - When houses, squares and streets tell stories (Volume I): Verlag Parzeller Fulda, 2000, 2nd edition 2001, ISBN 3-7900-0310-7
  • Fulda then and now - When houses, squares and streets tell stories, Volume II: Verlag Parzeller Fulda, 2001, ISBN 3-7900-0330-1
  • Fulda then and now - When houses, squares and streets tell stories, Volume III: Verlag Parzeller Fulda, 2003, ISBN 3-7900-0347-6
  • 50 years parish church Uttrichshausen 1954-2004: Parish of St. Bonifatius Uttrichshausen: Schöppner Druck Flieden , 2004
  • "Fulda Heads" or "People of Our Homeland" (Volume I): Verlag Parzeller Fulda, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7900-0396-3
  • Life at the foot of the horse head and Eube - home book of the Rhön community Rodholz  : community Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe), Rindt Druck Fulda, July 2008
  • Holy salvation! and thank you Petri! Back in the day - Fulda fishing Latin in original caricatures by Heinrich Hautumm (1902-1974): Parzellers Buchverlag Fulda, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7900-0413-7
  • 1200 years Uttrichshausen, municipality Kalbach / Rhön: municipality Kalbach - OT Uttrichshausen: Vogel Druck Neuhof , 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034540-1
  • "Fulda Heads" or "People of Our Homeland", Volume II: Parzellers Buchverlag Fulda, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7900-0442-7
  • Ortschronik Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe) - Preserving tradition - living progress (850 years 1165-2015): Municipality of Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe): BestPricePrinting Seefeld (Upper Bavaria) , 2015
  • 100 Years 1918 - 2018 District Craftsmen Association Fulda, Understanding / Bundling / Acting: District Craftsmen Association Fulda, Rindt Druck Fulda, September 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-060328-0

Also co-author of numerous publications on local history and author of over a thousand mostly historical articles, including family research, war grave care , philately , numismatics , archeology , cultural trips and communications engineering .

Awarded the Ferdinand Braun Medal in September 2013 by Lord Mayor Gerhard Möller

Literary prizes

The series “DENK-mal!” Initiated by Mott in the Fuldaer Zeitung (304 episodes in the years 1989–1995) received the German Prize for Monument Protection in 1993 from the German National Committee for Monument Protection in the Nikolai Church in Potsdam , the highest award on this Area. In the same year, Mott received the journalist award from the Chamber of Architects and Urban Planners of Hesse for the same series of articles on the subject of "Renewing without Destroying" .

Awards and honors

  • 2013: Awarded the Ferdinand Braun Medal by the city of Fulda
  • 2014: Appointment as honorary member of the PSV (Post-Sportverein) Blau Gelb Fulda 1934/61 eV

Web links

Commons : Michael Mott  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fulda newspaper
personal data
SURNAME Mott, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda