Paul Gehring

Paul Gehring (born June 14, 1890 in Stuttgart ; † August 26, 1970 there ) was a German librarian and economic historian .

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After attending the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart , Paul Gehring studied law as well as political science and economics at the universities in Tübingen , Berlin and Leipzig from 1909 to 1914 . In the First World War he took part as an officer. He passed the state examination in 1917 and received his doctorate in 1920 from the University of Tübingen . In 1918 he was a legal trainee at the Stuttgart District Court , from 1919 to 1930 he worked as a librarian at the University Library of Tübingen , from 1930 to 1933 at the Commerzbibliothek Hamburg . In 1933 he was appointed head of the library at the Technical University of Stuttgart . As the successor to Georg Leyh and the acting UB director Wilhelm Hoffmann , Gehring was director of the Tübingen University Library from 1951 to 1959. An important focus of his professional activity in Tübingen was the planning of an extension for the spatially very cramped university library, which, however, could only be built during the term of office of his successor Walther Gebhardt .

In 1941 the Technical University of Stuttgart appointed him honorary professor for literary and economic history of technology, and since 1957 he was honorary professor for regional economics at the University of Tübingen .

Outside of his librarianship, Paul Gehring presented numerous publications, especially on the economic history of Württemberg, and wrote life pictures and biographical articles for the "Swabian Life Pictures" and the " New German Biography ".

Fonts (selection)

• Parental violence and contract according to BGB , Ebering, Berlin 1920 (jurisprudential studies, volume 9) (dissertation).
• Prince Ludwig von Württemberg , his library and its division between the university libraries of Halle and Tübingen. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, vol. 41 (1924), pp. 505-531 and 565-580.
• The witch trial and the Tübingen law faculty. Investigations into the administration of criminal justice in Württemberg in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Journal for Württemberg State History, Volume 1 (1937), pp. 157–188 and Volume 2 (1938), pp. 15–47.
• The beginnings of the magazine industry in Württemberg . In: Württemberg Yearbooks for Statistics and Regional Studies, year 1938, pp. 1–63.
• Plans for a Württemberg Society of Sciences under Duke Karl (1767–70) . In: Hans Bihl (Hrsg.): Contributions to history, literature and linguistics, mainly from Württemberg: [Festgabe für Karl Bohnenberger , Tübingen; on his 75th birthday, August 26, 1938], Mohr, Tübingen 1938, pp. 92-106.
• About the wisdom . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department, vol. 60 (1940), pp. 261-279.
• Wisdoms and Swabian village regulations . In: Journal for Württemberg State History, Vol. 4 (1940), pp. 48–60.
• Nördliches Oberschwaben , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1941 (Württemberg rural legal sources, part 3).
• From List to Steinbeis. From the early days of industrialization in Württemberg . In: Journal for Württemberg State History, Vol. 7 (1943), pp. 406–444.
• Heilbronn on the way to becoming an industrial and trading city from imperial city to city of the German Empire 1802–1871 , Histor. Association, Heilbronn 1949.
• Schwäbisch Hall and the salt. A historical overview of the salt industry in Württemberg . In: Württembergisch Franken, NF 24/25 (1950), pp. 154-179.
• Economic life in Württemberg under King William I . (1816-1864) . In: Journal for Württemberg State History, Vol. 9 (1950), pp. 196-257.
• From Uracher economic life and its historical development . In: Schwäbische Heimat, Vol. 2 (1951), pp. 125–132.
• Johannes Bürk and Erhard Junghans . A contribution to the early history of the Swabian watch industry . In: Journal for Württemberg State History, Vol. 15 (1955), pp. 145–161.
• The history of the library of the Technical University of Stuttgart as university history . In: Manfred Koschlig (Hrsg.): The library of the Technical University of Stuttgart , Library of the Technical University, Stuttgart 1962, pp. 82-233.
• Eight Wuerttemberg followers of Friedrich Lists , Frankfurt 1819. A contribution to the history of the Wuerttemberg textile industry . In: Reports on German regional studies, vol. 31 (1963), pp. 318–338.
• Friedrich List . Adolescence and maturity, 1789–1825 , Mohr, Tübingen 1964.
• Friedrich List on the reorganization of the Reutlingen city administration (1816–1819) . In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, NF Volume 1/6 (1967), pp. 28-76.
• New archive material on List's emigration . In: Mitteilungen der List-Gesellschaft, Volume 7 (1967), pp. 105–120.
• Professor Wucherer and his Freiburg Polytechnic School from 1818 . In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, vol. 116 (1968), pp. 370–381.
• Friedrich List as a Freemason . In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, NF Volume 17/19 (1979), pp. 237-245.

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• Alexandra Habermann u. a .: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985 (Journal of Libraries and Bibliography, Special Issue, Volume 42), p. 91 f.
• Manfred Koschlig: Paul Gehring on his 75th birthday . In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte, vol. 24 (1965), pp. 181–188 (with bibliography, compiled by Sigrid Seebich).
• Walther Gebhardt : Paul Gehring eighty years old . In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, Vol. 17 (1970), pp. 177–179.