Peter Kracht

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Peter Kracht (born May 6, 1956 ) is a German journalist and historian .

Life

Kracht studied from 1976 to 1982 at the Ruhr University in Bochum , in 1989 he received his doctorate with a thesis on ancient trade relations ( ancient history ). After many years as the editor of a daily newspaper ( Hellweger Anzeiger ), he is a freelance journalist and author .

Kracht is head of the history department in the Westphalian Heimatbund , since 2003 chief specialist for culture at the Sauerland mountain association , since 2005 cultural supervisor of the German hiking association and district home keeper in the Unna district . As an editor, he is responsible for the local calendar of the Soest district and, since 2005, the yearbook of Westphalia . He has been the mayor in Unna-Massen since 2014 . In 2015 he was appointed to the German National Committee for Monument Protection .

Peter Kracht lives with his family in Unna-Massen.

literature

Monographs
  • Studies of the Greek-Etruscan trade relations from the 7th to 4th centuries BC Chr. (= Bochum historical studies: Ancient history. No. 10). Brockmeyer, Bochum 1991, ISBN 3-8196-0003-5 (= dissertation, University of Bochum, 1989).
  • as arrangement: The plague, death, life - Philipp Nicolai - traces of time. Contributions to the Philipp Nicolai year 1997, to the exhibition of the same name in the Ev. Unna town church . Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Unna, Lüdinghausen 1997. (With articles by various authors)
  • Around the Hönnetal. Between Unna, Iserlohn and Arnsberg. Pomp, Bottrop 2001, ISBN 3-89355-225-1 .
  • Sauerland, Siegerland and Wittgensteiner Land. In: Regions in North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 1, Aschendorff, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-402-05497-3 .
  • Ruhr area. In: Regions in North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 4, Aschendorff, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-402-05500-7 .
  • as publisher: Sassendorf. From the Sälzerdorf to the spa. Munster 2009.
  • The Sauerland. (Photo book, with photos by Holger Klaes ). Aschendorff, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-402-00425-8 .
  • Left and right of the Rothaarsteig. Aschendorff, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-402-00416-6 .
  • Klaus Basner, Peter Kracht, Klaus Seifert (arr.): Unna. Historical portrait of a city. Vol. 2: 1806-2013. Bönen 2013, ISBN 978-3-9813452-9-2 .
  • Klaus Basner, Peter Kracht, Klaus Seifert (arr.): Unna. Historical portrait of a city. Vol. 1: From the beginning to the early 19th century. Bönen 2014, ISBN 978-3-944430-01-0 .
  • Bergisches Land. In: Regions in North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 7, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-402-05503-8 .
  • as arrangement: Yearbook Westphalia . Editor: Westfälischer Heimatbund , 2005–2019.
  • as publisher: Jahrbuch Kreis Unna . No. 38–41, 2017–2020.
  • as arrangement: home calendar of the Soest district. ed. v. [District of Soest], 2002–2020
  • Treasures from the earth. Archeology in the German Mining Museum in Bochum. In: Ancient World . No. 5, 2019, pp. 88ff.
  • as editor: Unnaer contributions to history. NF 1, 2019.
  • as publisher: 50 years of the municipality of Ense. Ense 2019.
  • Repeated 100 years. Bönen 2019. (German, Chinese)
  • as editor: Beautiful Westphalia . Yearbook 2020. Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-402-15826-5 . (with ten contributions)
  • as editor: masses in pictures and stories . Unna 2020, ISBN 978-3-944430-14-0


Contributions (selection)
  • Herne. Underground through the history of Westphalia. In: Archeology in Germany . No. 4/2003.
  • From Weißenburg to Regensburg. Where tired legionaries woke up again. In: Archeology in Germany . No. 2/2005.
  • Egyptian treasures in Leiden. In: Archeology in Germany . No. 1/2017, pp. 68f.
  • Glorious Triumphator? The triumphal procession of Germanicus and the great question of victory. In: Ancient World . No. 4/2017, p. 64ff.
  • Review of: Rudolf Aßkamp, ​​Kai Jansen (Hrsg.): Triumph ohne Sieg. Rome's end in Germania. Darmstadt 2017. In: Archeology in Germany . 5/2017, p. 77.
  • Caesar vs. Vercingetorix. In: Archeology in Germany . No. 6/2018, p. 44f.
  • Westphalia as it lives and tastes. In: Dining and Table Culture - Cultural Exchange in Europe. ed. v. Bund Heimat und Umwelt in Deutschland (BHU), Bonn 2018, p. 63ff.
  • Greeks and Romans on the Rhone. In: Archeology in Germany . No. 4/2019, p. 42f.

Web links

Commons : Peter Kracht  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Thoms: Dr. Peter Kracht is the new mayor in Unna-Massen in lokalkompass.de from June 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ Silvia Rinke: Great honor for Masses mayor: Dr. Peter Kracht appointed to the National Committee for Monument Protection in Rundblick Unna on January 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Crash, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1956