Michael Wettengel

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Michael Wettengel (born September 15, 1957 in Frankenthal , Pfalz) is a German historian and archivist . He is the chief city archive director of the House of City History - Ulm City Archive .

Life

Wettengel graduated from the University of Hamburg in 1984 with the first state examination in history, English and educational science. Funded by the German National Academic Foundation , he received his doctorate in 1988 from Dieter Langewiesche with a dissertation on "The Revolution of 1848/49 in the Rhine-Main Area". From 1989 to 1991 he completed his legal clerkship for the higher archive service at the Federal Archives in Koblenz and at the Marburg Archive School . From 1991 to 2002 he was head of department at the Federal Archives in Koblenz and was involved in the revision of the guideline for the processing and administration of documents in federal ministries and in the DOMEA concept of the Federal Ministry of the Interior . 1997–2004 member of the "Committee on Current Records in an Electronic Environment" of the International Council on Archives (ICA) and 1998–2003 chairman of the working committee NABD 15 of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) (archive and records management). From 1993 to 2006 Wettengel was a part-time lecturer at the Archive School in Marburg. In 2002 he moved to Ulm as head of the city archive. Since 2007 he has been the chief city archive director of the Haus der Stadtgeschichte - Stadtarchiv Ulm . He has been a lecturer since 2004 and honorary professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since 2008 .

Awards

In 1989 Wettengel received the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize and in 1991 the Wilhelm Liebknecht Prize of the city of Giessen.

Memberships

Wettengel is u. a. Member of the Historical Commission for Nassau , Corresponding Member of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg and member of the Board of Trustees of the Baden-Württemberg Cultural Heritage Foundation .

Editorial activity

Wettengel is the publisher of “Research on the History of the City of Ulm” and the “Small Series of the Ulm City Archives”. Together with Andreas Schmauder, he is the editor of the magazine “ Ulm und Oberschwaben . Journal for History, Art and Culture ”.

Works (selection)

Monographs and Editions

  • The revolution of 1848/49 in the Rhine-Main area: Political associations and everyday revolution in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Duchy of Nassau and in the Free City of Frankfurt . Wiesbaden 1989 (publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau, Vol. 49).
  • (together with Michael Hollmann ): Nassau's contribution to today's Hessen . Wiesbaden 1992 (Hessen: Unity from Diversity, Vol. 2), 2nd updated edition 1994.
  • The Wiesbaden vigilantes 1848/49 and the revolution in the Duchy of Nassau . Taunusstein 1998.
  • (Ed. In collaboration with Edgar Büttner): The Parliamentary Council 1948–1949. Files and minutes. Edited by the German Bundestag and the Federal Archives. Vol. 13: Committee for Organization of the Federation / Committee for the Constitutional Court and the Administration of Justice. 2 volumes. Munich 2002.
  • (Edited in collaboration with Heinz Boberach ): Rhenish letters and files on the history of the political movement 1830–1850. Collected and edited. by Joseph Hansen . Vol. 4: Overall index . Düsseldorf 2013 (Publications of the Society for Rhenish History, Vol. 36).

Edited volumes (editor or co-editor)

  • (together with Gebhard Weig): StadtMenschen - 1150 years of Ulm: The city and its people , Ulm 2004.
  • Digital images and films in the archive - marketing and marketing. Lectures at the 66th Southwest German Archive Day on June 24, 2006 in Karlsruhe-Durlach , Stuttgart 2007 (a publication by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives).
  • (together with Gudrun Litz and Janet Loos): Biographical lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm . Edited by Frank Raberg, Ulm 2010.
  • Treasures of the city's history. The archive of the city of Ulm . Ulm 2015.

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