Historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg

The Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg (formerly also the Historical Association of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg ) deals with researching the history of the Upper Palatinate and the city of Regensburg and with the dissemination of historical knowledge about this region. It was founded in Regensburg on November 20, 1830 and has been publishing a scientific journal since 1831 ( negotiations of the Historical Association for the Rain District until 1838 , since then negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg (short: VHVO), 150 volumes published until 2010) .

founding

Since the beginning of the 19th century, with the Romantic era, an increasing interest in one's own past and home developed. King Ludwig I of Bavaria also recognized the value of history for the education of the population and in 1827 demanded the preservation of the historical monuments of Bavaria and a stronger focus on its own history.
In accordance with this suggestion, the Historical Association of the Regenkreis was founded in Regensburg on November 20, 1830, initially with 171 members. The first chairman was the Regensburg diplomat and historian Christian Gottlieb Gumpelzhaimer (1766–1841), who shaped the club in its important early days until his death. With the reorganization of Bavaria in 1838, the rain district was renamed Upper Palatinate . The association then also changed its name to Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg . The title of the magazine has also been adjusted.

On November 15, 1933, the association was brought into line in line with the Nazi regime and Walter Boll was elected its “leader”. In an extraordinary general meeting, the so-called Aryan paragraph and the Führer principle were introduced and the corresponding paragraphs in the association's statutes were adapted.
After the end of the war in 1945, the American military government dissolved the association. It was not re-established until February 16, 1949, and the old statutes came into force again.

Goal and activities of the association

Historical membership card of the association

The aim of the association is to promote scientific research in the Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. Historical knowledge is to be disseminated and the population's awareness of history strengthened. In addition to historical aspects, this also includes aspects of monument preservation .
The association's numerous fields of activity serve this goal:

• Publication of the negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg .
• Organization of two series of lectures annually.
• Organization of several excursions per year.
• Drafting of monument conservation reports (especially in the 19th century).
• Participation in numerous important monument protection projects (especially in the 19th century).
• Development of the club archive and library with valuable manuscripts, files, invoices and documents.
• Build up a collection of archaeological finds. In 1938 these holdings formed the basis of the Historical Museum of the City of Regensburg.
• Creation and publication of the Upper Palatinate bibliography in cooperation with the library of the University of Regensburg .

Due to its non-official, private character, the association has been able to maintain its independence from official bodies to this day.

Today's situation of the club

The board consists of the following people (board members from 2018):

• 1st chairman: Thomas Feuerer, District Office Regensburg cultural department
• 2nd chairman: Tobias Appl, district homeworker of the Upper Palatinate
• 1. Treasurer: Manuela Daschner, District Office Regensburg Culture Department
• 2. Treasurer: Lorenz Baibl, City Archivist Regensburg, Office for Archives and Monument Preservation
• 1. Secretary: Johannes Laschinger , City Archives, Amberg City Archives
• 2nd Secretary: Bernhard Lübbers, Regensburg State Library

There are regional groups in Amberg and Schwandorf as well as the Upper Palatinate Jura regional group for Parsberg and the western part of the Regensburg district . In 2013, the “Otnant Society for History and Culture of the Euregio Egrensis” became the Otnant regional group for the northern Upper Palatinate .

Honorary members of the association

• Martin Angerer (* 1952), former museum director D.
• Werner Chrobak (* 1948), Senior Library Councilor i. R. longstanding chairman and historian
• Simon Federhofer (1920–2002), teacher and historian
• Josef Klose, long-time chairman
• Paul Mai (* 1935), archive and library director
• Erwin Probst, archivist a. D.
• Otto Schmidt, former rector D.
• Wilhelm Volkert (* 1928), long-time chairman and historian

literature

• Martin Dallmeier: Historical Association and Monument Preservation in Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate. Historical self-image in the 19th century. In: Helmut-Eberhard Paulus et al. (Ed.): Regensburg in the light of its historical self-image. Pictorial self-representation of a historical city through art, literature and monument preservation in the past and present. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7954-1135-1 , pp. 128-137 ( Regensburg Autumn Symposium on Art History and Monument Preservation 3).
• Martin Dallmeier: learned associations in Regensburg. In: Peter Schmid (ed.): History of the city of Regensburg. Volume 2. Pustet, Regensburg 2000, ISBN 3-7917-1682-4 , pp. 940-950.
• Georg Völkl: Becoming and working of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg 1830–1955. In: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. 96, 1955, pp. 7-70, online .

Awards

• Culture Prize of the City of Regensburg in 1965

Web links

• Homepage of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg
• The Eisengau , publications of the Amberg regional group (City of Amberg and Amberg-Sulzbach district )
• Homepage of the regional group Otnant for the northern Upper Palatinate
• Digitized volumes of the VHVO at the University Library of Regensburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Mai: Dr. Walter Boll im memoriam , VHVO 125 (1985), p. 485 ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2013 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. 
2. ^ Georg Völkl: Becoming and working of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg 1830–1955 , in: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. 96, 1955, p. 65.
3. ↑ Board and committee members since 2012. Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, accessed on January 19, 2019 . 
4. ^ Regional groups of the historical association. Historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, accessed on March 13, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Paths to Regional History. (No longer available online.) Otnant regional group for the northern Upper Palatinate, archived from the original on March 14, 2014 ; accessed on March 13, 2014 . 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.   
6. ↑ Martin Dallmeier: In memoriam Simon Federhofer. Historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 2002.