Paul Weßels

Paul Weßels (right) from the landscape library welcomes the participants of the fourteenth wiki Stammtisch Ostfriesland in front of the landscape house .

Paul Weßels (born November 12, 1957 in Ochtrup , Steinfurt district ) is a German historian . He has been the director of the landscape library in Aurich since 2008 . As a regional historian, he has published numerous publications, especially on East Frisian history .

Life

Paul Weßels spent his childhood and youth in Ochtrup. After graduating from high school, he studied history and German language and literature from 1977 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , the University of Cologne and the Catholic University of San Miguel de Tucumán ( Argentina ) . In 1986 he passed the first state exam of secondary education from the subjects German and history, a year later the first state examination of the secondary . This was followed by his legal clerkship at the study seminar Leer and at the Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium Leer , which he completed in 1989 with the second state examination for teaching at grammar schools.

Since then Paul Weßels has worked as a regional historian in East Frisia . From 1989 to 1991 he worked in the regional history working group of the Aurich cultural and educational center. This was followed by employment as a chronicler for the Holtland community , which he completed with publication in 1995. After that he was employed by the municipality of Hesel until the publication of the Chronicle Hesel in 1998. In October 1997 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oldenburg . The subject of his dissertation was the history of the Barthe monastery near Hesel.

The landscape library in Aurich.

From September 1998 to August 2000 he worked as an employee of the district of Leer with the processing of the brick making history of the Rheiderland and the scientific supervision of the construction of a brickwork museum in Midlum . Then Weßels was a speaker and employee of the Lower Saxony State Archives - State Archives Aurich until 2007 . Most recently he was there in a cooperation project with the East Frisian landscape , the editor responsible for the creation of the “Historical Place Database East Frisia”. Since October 1st, 2008 he has been the director of the landscape library in Aurich.

His main focus as a historian is the history of the 19th and 20th centuries, biographical studies, the history of National Socialism and the social and economic history of East Frisia.

He is co-editor of the Emden yearbook and is responsible for the series "Treatises and research on East Frisian history" and "Sources on the history of East Frisia" published together with the Aurich branch of the Lower Saxony State Archives for the East Frisian landscape. He is also co-editor of the series of articles on the school history of East Frisia.

As an employee of the State Archives and the East Frisian Landscape, Weßels has built up a regional history network, the main aim of which is to integrate historical lay research into historical studies. Since 1992 he has been the head of the working group of East Frisian Ortschronisten of the East Frisian Landscape, which he founded . He is the initiator of the “Day of East Frisian History”, which has been organized jointly with the State Archives since 2000, and of the “School Prize for East Frisian History and Culture”, which has been awarded annually since 2009. He is also the co-founder and responsible head of the "Field Name Research Working Group" of the East Frisian Landscape, which was jointly founded in 2009 by the East Frisian Landscape, State Office for Geoinformation and Rural Development Lower Saxony (LGLN) and the State Archives.

In cooperation with Dutch historians, Weßels was active from 2011 to 2014 in the cross-border project “Memento Mori - Dying and Burying in the Northern Netherlands and Northwest Germany”. In 2015 he co-founded the German-Dutch “Network for Cross-Border History of the North of the Netherlands and Northwest Germany”.

Weßels has been a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen since 2009 and a member of the history department of the Lower Saxony Homeland Federation since 1997.

In May 2001 he was awarded the Upstalsboom Medal of the East Frisian Landscape in recognition of his scientific achievements and his commitment to the field of East Frisian local and regional history.

Paul Weßels is married and has three children.

Publications

• Holtland. "The well-built large church village ..." Isensee, Oldenburg 1995, ISBN 3-89598-284-9 .
• Barthe. On the history of a monastery and the subsequent domain on the basis of written sources . (Contributions to the history of the Geestortes Hesel). Soltau-Kurier Verlag, Norden 1997, ISBN 3-928327-26-7 .
• Hesel. “Desert area, arid wilderness and poor heather plants” - the path of a farming village into the modern age . (Contributions to the history of the Geestortes Hesel). Risius, Weener 1998, ISBN 3-88761-065-2 .
• Good Stikelkamp. From the Johanniter convent to the “parlor” of the Leer district . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 2002, ISBN 3-932206-28-2 .
• Not hopeless, but acting. Heinrich Oltmann (1892–1937). A reformed pastor in the church struggle. Foedus, Wuppertal 2002, ISBN 3-932735-72-2 .
• Do not give way to the wicked, face them more boldly. The historian Onno Klopp. A biographical study based on his diaries . Heimatmuseum, Leer 2003, ISBN 3-7921-0636-1 .
• Brickworks on the Ems. A contribution to the history of the Rheiderland . (Treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, 80). Aurich 2004, ISBN 3-932206-44-4 .
• The Olfry Brick Works. A piece of Vechta industrial history. Vechta 2007.
• Hermann Michael, Paul Weßels (ed.): East Friesland in the First World War . (Treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, 84). Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-940601-24-7 .
• The brick factories in Midlum. The East Frisian Brickwork Museum in Midlum. Risius, Weener 2013, ISBN 978-3-88761-123-1 .

Articles (selection)

• An inexpressibly sour career […]. The reform pedagogue Hinrich Janssen Sundermann (1815–1879) in his Hesel years. In: Emder yearbook for historical regional studies of East Frisia. 76, 1996, pp. 110-145.
• Associate, agitate, quarrel, petition, co-govern! - The history of the people's assemblies in Eschen during the years 1848/49. In: Emder yearbook. 1999, pp. 211-232.
• The East Frisian small towns. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History. 74, 2002, pp. 89-95.
• The German Christians in East Frisia and their influence in the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Province of Hanover. In: Emder yearbook. 81, 2001/2002, pp. 167-204.
• The economic development of Leer in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Emder yearbook. 83, 2003/2004, pp. 57-78.
• The Jewish labor camp in the district of Leer in 1939. In: Tota Frisia in partial views. 2005, pp. 447-471.
• "Woe to the lonely!" The cooperatives in East Friesland since 1870. In: Emder Yearbook for historical regional studies of East Friesland. Vol. 86, 2006, pp. 97-166.
• The "old master of East Frisian folklore" - the pedagogue, folklorist, botanist and publicist Friedrich Sundermann. In: Contributions to the school history of East Frisia. 2007, pp. 11-21.
• “Whoever believes will not flee” - Pastor Wilhelm Nordbeck in Landschaftspolder. In: Emder yearbook for historical regional studies of East Frisia. Vol. 88/89, 2008/2009, pp. 174-209.
• “Don't forget, my people, the dear dead.” Commemorations of those who died and memorials to those who died in East Frisia after the First World War. In: East Frisia in the First World War . (Treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, 84). Aurich 2014, pp. 351-446.
• From camp architect to concentration camp commandant. SS-Hauptsturmführer Bernhard Kuiper from Möhlenwarf. In: Michael Hermann (ed.): The 20th century in view. Contributions to East Frisian contemporary history. Bernhard Parisius on his 65th birthday. (Treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, 85). Aurich 2015, pp. 155–203.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Klaus Klattenhoff (Ed.): Regional school history. (Series of publications by the School History Foundation of the Weser-Ems District Association of the Education and Science Union). P. 146. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
2. ↑ Emder yearbook . Vol. 86, 2006, pp. 224-225.
3. ^ Aurich Landscape Library: Annual Report 2008 . Retrieved April 4, 2016.
4. ^ Michaela Klinkow: The treasures of the landscape library in Aurich . In: Press release of the Oldenburg State Library from January 14, 2016. Accessed April 4, 2016.
5. ^ East Frisian landscape: The working group of East Frisian local chronicles as a working group of the East Frisian landscape . Retrieved April 4, 2016.
6. ^ East Frisian Landscape: Annual Report 2000 . Retrieved April 13, 2016.
7. ↑ Paul Weßels: 2009 to 2014 - five years “School Prize for East Frisian History and Culture” , in: Messages from the Marschenrat for the Promotion of Research in the Coastal Area of ​​the North Sea 52/2015, pp. 23-29.
8. ↑ Cornelia Ibbeken: The field name interpretation work group - The field name collection of the East Frisian landscape ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: News of the Marschenrat for the Promotion of Research in the Coastal Area of ​​the North Sea 52/2015, pp. 15–22. 
9. ↑ Paul Weßels: Memento Mori - dying and burial in the northern Netherlands and in northwest Germany. A German-Dutch initiative within the network program of the Ems-Dollard-Region (EDR) , in: Nachrichten des Marschenrat to promote research in the coastal area of ​​the North Sea 5o / 2013, pp. 25–33.
10. ↑ History Network : Members: East Frisian Landscape . Retrieved April 13, 2016.
11. ↑ Dietmar von Reeken : … formed to maintain regional historical research . 100 Years of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen 1910–2010. Hanover 2010, p. 179.
12. ↑ Niedersächsischer Heimatbund: Section History ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 13, 2016. 
13. ^ East Frisian Landscape: Annual Report 2001. Aurich 2002, p. 18.