Reinhold Heling

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Reinhold Heling (born September 20, 1927 in Widminnen , Lötzen district , Masuria ; † December 19, 2008 in Hamburg ) was a German judge. He became known as the genealogist of East Prussia.

Life

Heling's mother was Anna Elise geb. Machhei (1893-1965). The father Alfred Friedrich Willi Heling (1895-1983) was a preacher in the church province of East Prussia and was transferred to Arys in 1931 . Reinhold Heling attended middle school there for two years and the high school in Lötzen until 1943 . He was drafted as a naval helper in Pillau in January 1944 and then employed in the Reich Labor Service in Silesia and near Warsaw. As an officer candidate he ended up in Oschatz in Saxony. When the East Prussian operation began (1945) , his mother fled East Prussia with him and three younger siblings in January 1945. The father, a soldier in the army (Wehrmacht) since 1940 , was in the Heiligenbeil pocket at the time . As an American prisoner of war , Reinhold Heling was able to take the Abitur in 1946. He was released from captivity on February 28, 1947.

Hamburg

At the request of the Hamburg school authorities, he had to repeat the school leaving examination in September 1948. In the same year he passed the interpreting test in English in Hamburg with a “good”. From the winter semester 1948/49 until the summer semester 1951, he studied at the University of Hamburg Law . In 1950 he became active in the Germania Königsberg fraternity . After he had passed the legal traineeship (“satisfactory”) on March 10, 1952, he married Trude Anna Lilli Seidensticker (1925-2016) on November 1, 1952 in Stade Trude. The marriage produced a daughter and a son. On May 29, 1956, Heling was magna cum laude in Hamburg as Dr. iur. PhD. On January 24, 1957, he passed the Great State Examination in Law ("satisfactory") and on April 17, 1957, he joined the Hamburg administration as an assessor . He was first at the Harburg District Office , then at the Legal Office , the Building Authority and in the Senate Chancellery . In 1960 he moved with the family from Stade to Hamburg. In the same year he was appointed government councilor in the Senate Chancellery. He switched to the judiciary and came to the Hamburg Administrative Court as a judge . From 1969 he was an administrative court director with several subsidiary offices. He retired in 1986 at the age of 59 because of heart failure .

Association for family research in East and West Prussia

The Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia founded in Königsberg in 1925. V. joined Heling in 1966. Between 1967 and 1994 he was editor-in-chief, deputy chairman and first chairman of the association. He founded a newsletter and took over the editing of almost 70, partly multi-volume special publications. He also edited the association's magazine, which had been published since 1927 under the title Old Prussian Gender Studies. Heling made it a yearbook with 400–600 pages. In 1977 he founded the series of sources, material and collections on Old Prussian family research (QMS). By publishing sources , he tried to establish the association as the successor to the former East Prussian historical associations. The number of members of the association has more than doubled since 1975 and the scope of its publications has more than tripled. The economic situation of the association could be permanently arranged.

Publications

Heling's publications concern many topics of family history and the general history of East Prussia . Examples are his contributions to the 450th anniversary of the Albertus University in Königsberg (1994) and the name index "Quassowski". With its 23 volumes and 8,500 pages, it is a treasure trove with no counterpart in any other East German province. From 1978 Heling worked on an "Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book", a directory of the official and biographical data of all pastors (and their relatives) who held office in East Prussia (and West Prussia) between 1525 and 1945. The community of Protestant East Prussians and the Evangelical Church of the Union made it possible to provisionally process the unmistakable pieces of paper. The (famous) "intermediate manuscript" is kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin .

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schönwalde a. B.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Private rivers and private water usage rights with special consideration of Prussian law .
  3. ↑ Reinhold Heling (VFFOW)
  4. ↑ Historical Commission
  5. ^ GenWiki
personal data
SURNAME Heling, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heling, Reinhold Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge, genealogist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Wydminy , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 2008
Place of death Hamburg