Rainer Lämmerhirt

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Rainer Lämmerhirt (* 1956 ) is a German teacher , author on Thuringian history and local politician.

Live and act

Rainer Lämmerhirt studied history and German as a teacher at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . From 1991 until his retirement he worked as a specialist history teacher at the Elisabeth Gymnasium in Eisenach . Lämmerhirt became known through regional historical research and publications in West Thuringia, especially concerning the Hainich area . His main research interests include Mihla's regional history and the fighting in April 1945 between the US armed forces and the German armed forces in the Hessian-Thuringian border region in the final phase of the Second World War .

In 1997 Lämmerhirt was elected honorary mayor of his home municipality Mihla in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . When this opened up in the city of Amt Creuzburg on December 31, 2019 , he became mayor of Mihla. In the first mayoral election of the city of Amt Creuzburg on June 28, 2020, Lämmerhirt ran for the Independent Community of Voters and initially reached the runoff election. Lämmerhirt won this on July 12, 2020; he received 56.5% of the vote.

Lämmerhirt is the chairman of the Mihlaer Heimat- und Verkehrsverein and has been an honorary local chronicle since 1986 . On January 4th, 2012 Lämmerhirt was made an honorary citizen of the Mihla community.

Works

  • The von Harstall family in West Thuringia. (1990) - a family chronicle of the noble Harstall family from Mihla
  • 600 years of Haineck Castle. (1992) - Castle chronicle of the Haineck on the occasion of the first mention
  • Mihla - from the story of a village in West Thuringia. (1993)
  • From the history of Ebenshausen. An overview of 765 years of village development. (1994) Topics of local history on the occasion of the first mention of the village of Ebenshausen
  • Mihlaer fair book. (1998)
  • Village pictures from old Mihla. (Vol. 1 1995, Vol. 2 1997) together with Bernhard Hoffmann; important personalities and topics of local history
  • About the white ancestral wife, the forest spirit Elbel and the hunter Holzerkopf. (1998) Hainich and Werratal legend book
  • St. Martin in Mihla and St. Nikolai in Lauterbach. (1999) - Monograph on the history of the Mihla churches
  • Thuringia castles and fortifications in the Middle Ages. (2001) - together with Werner Mägdefrau and his daughter Dana Lämmerhirt; Richly illustrated overview of important castle complexes in Thuringia.
  • Desertification in the Hainich area. (2004) - together with Paul Botzum, overview of the medieval settlement history of Hainich
  • The battle for the Werra line in April 1945 between Gerstungen and Treffurt. (2005)
  • Mihla and the Werra region 1919 to 1945. (2006)
  • The history of the Werratal Railway 1907-1969. (2007) - Monograph on the history of the railway in the Werra Valley
  • Kirmes in Mihla - funfair celebrations from 1998 to 2007. (2008)
  • Mihla on historical postcards 1888-2008. A journey through 120 years of local history. (2009) - annotated illustrated book
  • Wars and their consequences in the Werra Valley 1524-1918. From the peasant war to the end of the First World War. (2010)

Lämmerhirt is also represented in periodicals with many magazine articles on Mihla's history, Thuringia's military history, Thuringian railway history and on historical anniversaries. Some of these articles can also be found on the website of the Mihla municipality.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birgit Schellbach: New mayor wants to close trenches; Thüringer Allgemeine / Eisenacher Allgemeine from July 14, 2020
  2. ↑ http://suhl.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/lokal/kultur/detail/-/specific/Neujahrsempfang-in-Mihla-1538758020 Thüringer Allgemeine, accessed on January 23, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1956